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Lift the Yoke Tonight at City Market!
FarmPlate Jan 14, 2010 Sustainable Agriculture Council 1 comments
Local author and Vermont ag expert Ron Krupp leads a visual tour through his new book, Lifting the Yoke: Local Solutions to America's Farm and Food Crisis, tonight at City Market in Burlington. While many see the national food system as a failure, Krupp finds solutions in our own backyards. An activist in farm and food issues for nearly four decades, Krupp started the Brattleboro Farmers' Market in the early '70s, coordinated the Tommy Thompson Community Garden in the Intervale, worked with the Heartbeet farm in Hardwick and published "The Green Mountain Farmer," a monthly newsletter in the early '80s. He's also the author of The Woodchuck's Guide to Gardening, which received the Christian...
First Annual Culinary Tourism Food Summit
FarmPlate Nov 05, 2009 Sustainable Agriculture Council 0 comments
The event is sponsored by The Mount Snow Valley Chamber of Commerce, The Bennington Area Chamber of Commerce, The Manchester & The Mountains Chamber of Commerce, The Brattleboro Area Chamber of Commerce, The Great Falls Regional Chamber of Commerce and The Londonderry Area Chamber of Commerce. More Regional Events Saturday, November 7 > The Middlebury Farmers Market moves indoors to the newly renovated Town Hall Theater starting Saturday. Area growers, cheesemakers, bakers and craftspeople offer countless "eat local" opportunities. Open weekly from 9am to noon through April 25. > In Brattleboro, the Winter Farmers' Market begins its fall/winter season at the beautiful River Garden...