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A springtime view of our pastures. Photo by Susie Marchand

Your Diet, Your Health
Thursday-Saturday, June 2-4
Come to the Coach Barn for Nourish Vermont, to learn the core principles of traditional diets and explore how lifestyle changes can contribute to health, wellness and longevity. The speaker lineup includes: Sally Fallon Morell, the Drs. Wolfson, Guido Mase, Dr. Jack Kruse, Jeff Leach and more! Register today!

Saving Grassland Birds
Ornithologist Noah Perlut is back for his 15th season of researching Bobolinks and Savannah Sparrows at the Farm. His research has heightened awareness, understanding, and action to protect these threatened species. We're proud to have supported this work. Come hear Noah speak at a free discussion June 14 at the Farm. Read more about his efforts.

See You at the National Farm to School Conference!
There's been national interest in how we've collaboratively built the Vermont Farm to School Network, and how the Network is using systems mapping to catalyze strategic action. Our VT FEED staff are bringing these experiences to the National Farm to School Conference this week (June 2-4). The ultimate goal? Healthier kids, farms, and planet!

Proud of our alum
When Courtney Banach was 11, she said she wanted to be a farmer. So her mom sent her to a camp at Shelburne Farms, thinking it would deter her daughter, according to Courtney. "Her plan really backfired, because I went back, I started working there, and I never left." Now this long-time 4-H'er and Farmyard and Dairy helper has just graduated from Vermont Technical College in Dairy Farm Management Technology. We're proud of Courtney, and of all the kids who find a place at the Farm, and in farming. Watch the WCAX story

Project-learning in a Cemetery
As part of their annual "E-week", students of the Vermont Commons School have been experiencing the Farm. One group is working with Curator of Collections Julie Eldridge Edwards to photograph all the headstones in the public cemetery on the Farm (known as the West Cemetery). The photos will be matched to an inventory list from 2004-2005. "It's such a win-win," says Julie. "It's a great, hands-on service learning project for them, and a great addition to the Archives. They really took the lead to determine how they would carry out the project--they had to think, plan, and execute."
Thank you, Dot!
Dorothy Cole ("Mrs. Cole" to the hundreds of eighth grade students whom she taught English to for many years), has been a member of the Farm for more than three decades. What inspires her loyal support? "I love the enthusiasm and joy that the Farm programs and experiences provide for kids--of all ages," she says. Thank you, Dot, for helping to make those experiences possible through the years!
Cheese Sales Manager Rory Stamp & Jasper Hill cheesemaker Rosy Neale on Capitol Hill for the Taste of Vermont Reception
In Brief
  • Cheese Sales Manager Rory Stamp shared our cheddar in Washington, DC for the 9th annual Taste of Vermont reception, a showcase of Vermont products for federal legislators. 
  • Betsy Rosenbluth, Program Director of VT FEED, gave a keynote address on the impact of Farm to School at the 2016 Tri-State Conference of Child Nutrition Programs. She shared the podium with Steve Marinelli, Milton Schools Food Service Director and former participant in our Farm to School Institute.
  • Current menus from the Inn's farm-to-table restaurant: Dinner, Breakfast, Brunch, Dessert. And Sunday Suppers have started!
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