Although the prioritization work of the Community Visit Program requires a town to decide what is most important as it moves forward with Task Forces, nothing is lost in the process from the long list of concerns and ideas expressed in early community focus sessions. Many interesting and diverse thoughts are represented in the notes, and are presented as a reminder of issues explored, and a possible foundation for future projects.
The 2012 Doyle Town Meeting Day survey results are in and show that 89% of Vermonters believe that the state should continue to support our working farms and forests. Click here to see all the results.
Lamoille County is home to 375 farms — according to the DC-based Environmental Working Group — and not one food co-op. Residents seeking to own a stake in their farm-fresh food have to purchase a CSA, or head to co-ops in Hardwick or Montpelier. That may change soon, thanks to a feasibility study approved last Friday. Morristown could have a member-owned co-op as soon as next summer if the plan proves economically sustainable, says the town’s community development coordinator, Tricia Follert.
Rep. Mollie Burke has arranged for a screening of the 35-minute film, Lilac Ridge: Life on a Family Farm.
Bring your lunch, enjoy the film, and chat with the filmmaker (and possibly, the farmers featured in the film).
• Tuesday, March 27, 2012
• Noon – 1 pm
• Room 10, Vermont Statehouse (first floor)
• Bring your lunch.
Manchester Center VT, March 6, 2012 - Digital Wish, one of the e-Vermont Partner organizations, has been awarded a $25,000 grant by the A.D. Henderson Foundation for the Vermont School Modernization Initiative. The initiative supplies classrooms the computers, training, and curriculum necessary for students to develop 21st century skills. These funds will support the research and development of resources to help schools identify and secure sustainable funding streams for their technology programs.
MONTPELIER — “I dip therefore I yam” is a motto that belongs to Lisa Johnson of Norwich, who testified recently about a niche product, Yummy Yams, she is producing from a crop seldom seen on the Vermont landscape. “I want to change the way people think about sweet potatoes,” she recently told the House Committee on Agriculture. Committee members heard a morning’s worth of testimony from land base entrepreneurs that included the head of a wood pellet plant near Rutland.
