Green Pastures Meat is open for business! Located on the corner of Route 7 and Campground Rd in New Haven. A variety of local meat is offered, along with other fine culinary ingredients.  They are looking to source local meat and with a mobile slaughter unit they are able to reduce animal stress by eliminating travel.  Support ACORN's
Neat Repeats Resale Shop will sell your used, but clean great condition clothes, donating the proceeds to ACORN! Bring a bag down with a note inside that says "ACORN #149!" and help us fund our small projects.
Hannaford's Supermarket is looking for local products.
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 Scholten Cheese goes well with greens & local Green are here in abundance!
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Greetings!
June is such a great and busy time around Addison County. Schools finish up for the season, just as strawberries are ready for picking which no doubt kids love. Find many varieties of berries at each and every farmer's market or find local pick your own farms for a day trip. This fruit kicks off the full flavor of summer makes great summer memories. Speaking of fruit...word is that this will be a banner apple crop based on the current fruit set.
Good food makes good memories and this year . Freshly made lunches are delivered daily to Vergennes, Bristol and Starksboro. Help us spread the word for our families in need that this is available. Call 453-2333 x 1004 for details.
SUMMER and YOUTH... On two separate weekends at the end of this month, 14/15 year olds and 12/13 year olds are invited to join their peers from around the state for an affordable, overnight camp focusing on youth farm safety. Hosted by UVM Extension and offered at UVM this is a great opportunity to engage kids in farm related activities. As your thoughts are turning from school to summertime, please share this opportunity with your students, friends and family. The camps are open to all -- whether you have never even been near livestock and tools, or you are already running machinery on your home farm. More info on this and other youth programs
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ACORN is a Vermont non-profit currently working on specific projects to broaden Addison County's impact in the arena of food, agriculture, capitalization of small businesses and renewable energy resources. We build connections; the links are meant to show the array of Vermont-based resources. Kindly share ideas that can support our effort. JOIN ACORN Pick your own bounty of the county  |
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New, Young Farmers
 If you have walked & shopped our local farmers markets you know there are new faces. Over the years you have become familiar with our established growers, but now we are seeing more start-up farm and food based businesses.
They are producing a great mixture of
 products including wonderful wild leek pesto from Mountain Warrior and a spectacular spicy greens mixture from Footprint Farm. Yore Fare is another small emerging farm working to bring small scale ag to your kitchen. Local meat is part of the mix from some of these farms and you can purchase freshly slaughtered meat- as good as it gets- at the markets. See them all at the Wednesday and/or Saturday Bristol, VT Farmer's Market. Each producers is selling in many different markets- CSA, online, direct to stores and at the open markets around the county. Stop by and hear their stories and be like me, become an instant fan of our young growers and share in their enthusiasm! Needless to say, you will find new faces at all our local marktes. |
F2S Student Heroes: Eye Eye, Potato Planting Day
Students at Shoreham Elementary had a great spring in the garden prepping and planting under intense May sun and early June rain. The kids worked hard to get the jobs done in narrow windows of time. Making it fun with watering chores and tool cleanup was just part of the job. Cheers of success to all the kids on the crew who began the summer garden. Food Service Director, Dot, loved seeing the planting of crops that will be fed to the kids come fall.
ACORN intern Linnea Burnham will visit this and other gardens adding a helping hand to stay ahead of weeds. Each school has its own methods of maintenance but if you are interested in helping your school garden, let us know so we can help you make connections. Email Linnea for details!
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Online Farmers' Markets
 Be part of the ease of online ordering with Middlebury pick-up at he Addison Chamber of Commerce on Thursdays. For more info...contact Sue Hoxie at 388-7951 x2.
Participating farmers choose what to sell and how much to charge, just like a farmers market, but they only pick and deliver what they've sold, saving them time and money. Customers can order anytime from any number of farmers, pay in a single transaction, and pick up all their purchases at a convenient location. There is access to local and organic food through the convenience of their computer, tablet, or smartphone.
At Yourfarmstand, your market is part of an interconnected but independent network of online markets. This is a great place to be introduced to new farmers and products with the ease of online ordering and convenient pick-up locations.
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Bridport Summer Lunch Program Needs YOUR Help
Dottie Neuberger, the Community Supper Coordinator for the Middlebury Community Care Coalition, is looking for some support for the Bridport lunches, suppers and summer camp meals.
Bridport currently has over 60% of its students on free and reduced lunches, and the summer meal programs are not currently funded with the federal meal programs.
The summer program is looking for food donations for morning snack and lunch as well as funding opportunities. If you have donations to offer, or would like to find out more you can reach Dottie at neuberg@middlebury.edu.
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Opportunities & Good Things!
June 20-21 Farm Youth Safety Camps at UVM
kristen.mullins@uvm.edu or (802) 656-2034
June 27, 10-3:00
Annual Grain Research Tour
Borderview Farm in Alburg will host the event for those wanting more information on growing grains. An excellent event that combines research with tasting of freshly baked products. RSVP by June 21 Grain Tour Info
Grow It! Summer Garden Series for Community & Shcool Garden Leaders; On-going details here
 Bristol Farmers' Market Wednesdays are back on the Green in Bristol!
July Addison County Seed Savers
Contact Susan for details & dates to learn hadns-on the art, craft & science of seed saving
Fun in Fields! Sunday July 14 3rd Annual Bocce Tournament at WIllowell! Noon-5PM. RSVP: info@willowell.org
Save the Date: August 17th for ACORN's Bounty of the Counyt hoe-down pignic!
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Thanks to all of you for sharing links and information. Because of your input, we keep growing and catalyzing our network. Please share our website to build the network widely!
Annie Harlow
ACORN Network
annieharlowahh@gmail.com
802-922-7060
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