This was exactly what was missing when buying food, living in Chicago the past several years, getting to see where our food comes from. What we appreciate most about Applecheek Farm is how it is unconditionally open to the community. ~ Riviello Family 
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Rural Vermont |
| "Our Vision is for a Vermont local food system which is self-reliant and based on reverence for the earth. It builds living soils which nurture animals and people with wholesome, natural products supporting healthy, thriving farms and communities." |
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Vermont Fresh Network |
| The Vermont Fresh Network encourages farmers, food producers and chefs to work directly with each other to build partnerships. Building these regional connections contributes to stronger local communities and their economies. |
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Vermont Land trust |
| The mission of the Vermont Land Trust is to conserve land for the future of Vermont. |
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NOFA |
| The NOFA Interstate Council provides coordination between the chapters, conducts the annual NOFA Summer Conference and acts as an umbrella organization for projects of collective concern to NOFA chapters. |
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Local In Season |
Local In Season is a website that is celebrates local foods, the people that produce and use them, and what the home cook can do with them. At Local In Season...better food is the reason. |
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The Vermont Grass Farmers' Association |
| The Vermont Grass Farmers' Association (VGFA) was founded in 1996 with support from the UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture and USDA-NRCS. The VGFA helps farmers generate wealth from grass-based farming, provides leadership on grazing issues, and vision for the Center's Vermont Pasture Network Program. |
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Weston A. Price Foundation |
| The Foundation is dedicated to restoring nutrient-dense foods to the human diet through education, research and activism. |
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Walden Heights Nursery |
| Specializing in CERTIFIED ORGANIC heirloom variety fruit trees, bushes and other cold-hardy plants for your edible landscape. |
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Sterling College |
| Sterling College is a small, progressive college in northern Vermont, in the heart of the Northeast Kingdom. It’s unusual in many ways, among them its size (125 students), its commitment to experiential academics, and its membership as one of only seven Work-Learning-Service colleges in the nation. |
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Pete's Greens |
| A certified organic vegetable farm in Craftsbury, VT, with a CSA called Good Eats. The Farm Stand sells their own organic vegetables and many locally produced staples. They also sell their produce wholesale to restaurants and markets in VT, Boston and NY. |
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Vermont Coalition for Food Sovereignty |
| The Coalition rejects such Federal decrees, statutes, regulations or corporate practices that threaten our basic human right to save seed, grow, process, consume and exchange food and farm products within the State of Vermont. |
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Orchard Valley School |
| The Orchard Valley School is dedicated to the principles of Waldorf Education, honoring the individuality and creativity of each child and fostering a sense of community that supports children in their growth and learning. |
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Green Mountain Farm to School |
| A leader in the growing farm-to-school movement in Vermont, Green Mountain Farm-to-School (GMFTS) promotes the health and wellbeing of Vermont's children, farms and communities by providing programs to connect schools and farms through food and education. |
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Vermont Localvore |
| Celebrating and supporting local food in the Mad River Valley - those who eat it and those who grow it - through education, community connections, and collective wisdom. |
