2024 Short Course in People's Agroecology
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by Rural Vermont
4M ago
¡Brigada! The 2024 Short Course on People’s Agroecology in Vermont From October 3 to October 9, dozens of local farmers, farmworkers, organizers and activists gathered in Greensboro Bend, Vermont, for the 2024 Short Course in People’s Agroecology, with participants from Rural Vermont, the National Family Farm Coalition, the Farmworkers Association of Florida (FWAF), the National Farmers’ Union (NFU) of Canada, Union Paysanne in Quebec, Organización Boricuá from Puerto Rico, and the Institute for Agroecology of the University of Vermont. This short course was based on the agroecological work br ..read more
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2024 Rural Vermont Community Survey
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by Rural Vermont
6M ago
We need YOU! Rural Vermont members and allies have been guiding our work for nearly 40 years. Please take 5-10 minutes to fill out our Community Survey and help us prioritize the issues that matter most. Rural Vermont is a grassroots, member-led organization representing farmers, farmworkers and agrarian communities, and your thoughts, ideas, questions, and concerns matter. This is one of many opportunities to provide feedback. For more information, contact mollie@ruralvermont.org. 2024 Community Survey ..read more
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2024 Healthcare Rate Hike & Comments
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by Rural Vermont
7M ago
Blue Cross & Blue Shield of VT and MVP have requested double digit premium rate increases for 2025. It’s vital to share stories about how unaffordable insurance impacts the farming community so we can encourage them to act. Join our friends at the Vermont Workers Center to share your story at the Green Mountain Care Board's online public comment forum on Thursday July 25th at 4pm. Register for the forum and get the link to join here. If you can't attend the forum, Vermonters can submit a public comment until Saturday, July 27th. Submit online https://bit.ly/RateReviewComment. Email&n ..read more
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7/11 Climate Thoughts from the Flooded Field
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by Rural Vermont
7M ago
This blog post was written originally as an Instagram post on July 11, 2024 by Rural Vermont board member, Marya Merriam, owner and operator of Wood Frog Flowers, in response to the devastation caused by the July 2024 flooding event in Central and Northern Vermont. Marya has given Rural Vermont permission to reproduce and share their thoughts here. If you would like to follow Marya on Instagram, their handle is: woodfrogflowers This morning, | drove over to my parents’ place [Brookfield] to harvest garlic and cried in anxiety and frustration. And then, | drove home this evening and cried some ..read more
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7/11 Flood Resources
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by Rural Vermont
7M ago
In response to the impacts of THE July 10th flooding, here is a list of CURRENT farm and rural resources. We will keep this list updated as more resources become available and known. FARM RESOURCES Farm Service Agency: If you have crop insurance contact your local office to report losses. Factsheet: Managing Flood Damage in Pasture, Crops, Livestock Agency of Ag: Flood Resources Northeast Center for the Advancement for Food Safety (NECAFS): Resources for Flooding FUNDING & FINANCIAL ASSISTANCE Vermont Farm Fund Emergency Loans Farmer Emergency Fund USDA Disaster Assistance ..read more
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6/5 Commentary on USDA's Agroecology Funding Objectives
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by Rural Vermont
9M ago
In a recently published article, Rural Vermont's Grassroots Organizing Director, Mollie Wills, joins members of La Via Campesina North America in challenging funding objectives of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This article was part of a series of commentaries assembled following the U.S. Agroecology Summit 2023, and published in Vol. 13 of the Journal of Agriculture, Food Systems, and Community Development. Grassroots agroecology advocates challenge funding objectives focused on U.S. Department of Agriculture ..read more
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4/17 International Day of Peasants' Struggle
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by Rural Vermont
11M ago
Today on April 17th, we mark the International Day of Peasant Struggles, an annual action day that brings rural communities together to commemorate the Eldorado do Carajás massacre in 1996 and to honor the resistance of agrarian workers worldwide who persist in their struggle for social justice and dignity. Central to this struggle is the right to food sovereignty, and the rights of people and communities as articulated in the 2018 United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Peasants and Other People Working in Rural Areas: “Peasants and other people living in rural areas have ..read more
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3/30 Palestinian Land Day Rally & March
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by Rural Vermont
11M ago
The Palestinian Land Day Sapling Planting and Rally in Montpelier on Saturday, March 30th was one of several events hosted across Vermont to oppose Israel's genocidal war in Gaza, and to stand with Palestinians in their struggle for liberation. Graham Unangst-Rufenacht, Rural Vermont’s Policy Director, along with several others, was asked to speak to the connections between food sovereignty, human rights, and democracy. My name is Graham Unangst-Rufenacht, I am the Policy Director at Rural VT - a nearly 40 year old member based organization working for food justice and food sovereignty through ..read more
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2/27 Ceasefire Rally at the Statehouse
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by Rural Vermont
11M ago
At the Ceasefire Rally and press conference at the statehouse held on Tuesday, February 27th, Graham Unangst-Rufenacht, Rural Vermont’s Policy Director, along with several other organizations and individuals, was asked to speak about food sovereignty and its inherent connection to human rights and democracy. The ceasefire rally and press conference, organized by the Vermont Coalition for Palestinian Liberation, capped an effort urging the Vermont General Assembly to sign onto a ceasefire letter, pressuring the Biden administration to demand, and commit to, a ceasefire in Gaza. You can read Gra ..read more
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1/27 Vermonters Together - Building a Better Future Rally
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by Rural Vermont
11M ago
On Saturday, January 27th, hundreds of Vermonters gathered in Montpelier for the Vermonters Together - Building a Better Future March & Rally to call for Legislators and the Governor to create a more equitable, peaceful and healthy economy in balance with our planet. Business and politics as usual have left the state scrambling in the face of extreme weather and geopolitical events during 2023. The result? An affordable housing crisis, social unrest, overwhelmed food shelves, low-income families spending over 5 times more of their monthly income on energy bills than higher-income families ..read more
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