A conversation with Mindy Blank, Executive Director, Community Resilience Organizations This actually gives me a lot of hope for the future because agriculture is something that can realistically be regenerative—obviously, it will take a lot of work for regenerative agriculture to become a common practice, but it can be done. Regeneration Corps participant from Sharon […]
Conscious Homestead – Winooski, VT
“I care about taking care of myself, about the earth, but also taking care of each other,”says Candice Taylor, a Winooski resident who is starting up a new community garden called Conscious Homestead in her backyard. The mission of the Conscious Homestead is to promote land based learning that centers and decolonizes our relationship to […]
Food Shelf Giving Gardens: Flipping the Narrative
Community gardens partnering with food shelves to determine what to grow and how to donate it is an essential step in getting fresh food to those who need it. In the Northeast Kingdom and the Mad River Valley, two food shelves are flipping that narrative by reaching out to their local communities to see what […]
Master Gardeners: A call to action
The UVM Extension Community Horticulture Program (Master Gardener & Composter) trains volunteers and uses research-based gardening information to help all Vermonters improve their gardening, leadership and environmental stewardship skills. How the program works: After completing a 16-week online course, trainees become volunteer Interns. To transition from an Intern to a Certified Master Gardener (EMG), trainees […]
A Community of Gardens Bloom
Stamford VT Seed Savers – Stamford, VT Helen Fields and her husband, Stephen Greene, are both long-time advocates and organizers for bringing gardens and garden-based education into the communities where they live and work. The couple’s most recent project is the Stamford VT Seed Savers, a local garden education program, growing and seed saving at […]
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