Click the small green play button on the player below to watch this episode of "Across the Fence" which aired 4/8/11 with Paul Costello and Roger Allbee talking about the Vermont Working Landscape Partnership initiative. The Partnership is working to support local agriculture and forestry, grow and attract farm and forest entrepreneurs, and conserve Vermont’s Working Landscape far into the future.
Roger Allbee, Chair of the Vermont Working Landscape Council and former Secretary of the Vermont Department of Agriculture, Food, and Markets, shares his perspectives on the opportunities ahead for Vermont's Working Landscape through the Working Landscape Partnership effort.
"The Future of Vermont's Working Landscapes" ~ Part of UVM's Center for Research on Vermont "Research in Progress Seminar Series" was held Monday, April 11, 2011.
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• June 2011 Edition
MONTPELIER, VT – Surveys repeatedly show Vermonters want a strong working landscape for all its scenic, cultural, economic, environmental and recreational benefits. However if alarming trends that threaten its economic viability are not reversed, it will vanish within a generation. The Vermont Council on Rural Development is launching a new nonpartisan and broad-based partnership to keep our farm and forest economy a vital foundation for the future of Vermont. The Partnership is proposing a bold plan.
Vermonters and visitors value our working landscape for all its scenic, cultural, economic, environmental and recreational benefits. However, if alarming trends are not reversed it will vanish within a generation. So will Vermont's distinctiveness, its core brand for tourism and attracting business, and many of the key values that unify the state.
The Vermont Council for Rural Development sponsored the State House summit on December 10, 2010 of more than 300 people from agriculture, forestry, business, and public policy. The day highlighted the continuing crisis that is fragmenting the working landscape in Vermont and unveiled bold new steps to reverse this trend. The Summit also launched a new nonpartisan and broad-based partnership to support local agriculture and forestry, grow and attract farm and forest entrepreneurs, and conserve Vermont’s Working Landscape far into the future.
Find the latest programmatic news in these regular updates (Join the Partnership to receive them by email when they are published):
Vermonters and visitors value our working landscape for all its scenic, cultural, economic, environmental and recreational benefits. However, if alarming trends are not reversed it will vanish within a generation. So will Vermont's distinctiveness, its core brand for tourism and attracting business, and many of the key values that unify the state.
VCRD's Executive Director Paul Costello offers his reflections on what we can do together to conserve Vermont's Working Landscape for the future.