VCRD is facilitating a non-partisan 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. Join the Partnership to add your voice, keep informed, and help shape the campaign for Vermont’s Working Landscape.
MONTPELIER, VT – Vermont Rural Jobs Bill Draws a Crowd: A legislative panel holding a public hearing on the Vermont Working Lands Enterprise Investment bill found a statehouse room packed to capacity Wednesday evening, where more than 100 people turned out – most in support of the bill. Close to 40 testified, with all but…
Investing in our Farm and Forest Future is the final report of the Vermont Working Landscape Partnership Council. It offers five recommendations to help reinvigorate the state’s rural economy: Build a major campaign to celebrate the distinctiveness of the working landscape that is Vermont. Target strategic investment through a Vermont Agriculture and Forest Products Development…
Participants at the Summit on the Future of Vermont’s Working Landscape shared their commitment to advancing the enterprise that serves as the foundation for the future vitality of rural lands and rural communities. Five afternoon breakout sessions reviewed the five-point Vermont Working Landscape Partnership Action Plan and offered their advice to improve it and initiate…
With the goal of assisting government, environmental, and planning leaders in their attempts to meet the ongoing challenges of promoting a vibrant working landscape in Vermont, this report (written by Cheryl Morse of UVM and contracted by us as an input to the Working Landscape Partnership Council) surveys strategies undertaken in other parts of the…