Kingsbury Market Garden Farm Store Opens TODAY!

Kingsbury Market Garden Farm Store Opens TODAY!

I wanted to let you know that the Farm Store at the Kingsbury Farm is opening today.  The Store will be open Wednesday through Saturday noon to 7pm.  The farm is being run by Aaron Locker with the help of his brother John Locker and wife Suzanne Slomin – it is a true family farm.  Suzanne is also running the farm store where you will be able to buy fresh produce including Suzanne’s amazing salad mix, farm-made soups, a variety of cheeses, simple sandwiches and tarts and Suzanne’s fabulous naturally leavened breads and pizza shells.  Suzanne is a

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Organic Gardening Workshop Series at Knoll Farm

Organic Gardening Workshop Series at Knoll Farm

This year Helen Whybrow of Knoll Farm will be offering an organic gardening workshop series at Knoll Farm.  The first in the series is all about seeds and seedling to get your garden off to a great start.  It is on Friday, April 2 from 10am to 2pm.  Learn more at their website.  Advanced registration is required.

Did You Miss Andrew Meyer’s Presentation on Hardwick?

Did You Miss Andrew Meyer’s Presentation on Hardwick?

Good news!  You can see the entire presentation including the really fabulous Q&A session after the talk right on Channel 44 – Mad River Television.  This week (February 20, 23 and 25) you can see it at 12:10pm or 8:10pm.

Charlie Nardozzi – Eat Your Landscape Presentation

Charlie Nardozzi – Eat Your Landscape Presentation

You’ve heard him on the radio, seen him on TV, now meet him in person!

Vermont’s own Charlie Nardozzi
Senior Horticulturist for the National Gardening Association
Eat Your Landscape!
March 11, 2010
6:00 – 8:30 p.m.
Montpelier High School
Montpelier, VT
Sponsored by: Central Vermont Master Gardeners, chapter of the
University of Vermont Extension Master Gardeners
Suggested donation at the door:
$5.00 per person or food for the Vermont Food Bank

Why grow trees, shrubs, and flowers that are just beautiful, when you

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Cool Summer Cooking Opportunity at Center for Whole Communities!

Cool Summer Cooking Opportunity at Center fpr Whole Communities

Whole Foods Chef Position

Knoll Farm

Waitsfield, Vermont

We offer a fantastic opportunity for one or two experienced chefs to produce creative meals, using all locally grown, organic foods, for educational gatherings of leaders of environmental and social change organizations. Center for Whole Communities in a nonprofit educational organization which convenes retreats throughout the summer for environmental and social change leaders. We are based at Knoll Farm, a 400-acre organic farm in the Mad River Valley of central Vermont.  Each week-long retreat includes 25 adults, and serving locally grown, whole foods is a major element of what we teach. 

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2009 – A good year for locally grown food in the Mad River Valley!

2009 – A good year for locally grown food in the Mad River Valley!

Originally appeared in the Valley Reporter, December 23, 2009

Despite the devastating late blight disease that wiped out just about every tomato plant in the Valley this summer, Localvores should be feeling pleasantly satiated with the increasing availability of locally grown food that 2009 brought to the Mad River Valley.  This year, the Mad River Valley Localvore Project released the first edition of their Foodshed Map featuring 25 agricultural enterprises ranging from cheesemaking to vegetable farms to fledgling vineyards.  The Localvores plan to produce a new edition of the map for 2010 because several new

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Special funding Available for Hoop Houses!

Special funding Available for Hoop Houses!

Thanks Caitrin Noel for sending this info to us to pass along to our farmers friends!

AVAILABILITY OF LOCALLY GROWN FOODS

3-Year Project To Verify Effectiveness Of High Tunnels In Natural Resource Conservation

COLCHESTER, VT, Dec 18, 2009 – On December 16, 2009 Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan  announced a new pilot project under the ‘Know Your Farmer, Know Your Food’ initiative for farmers to establish high tunnels – also known as hoop houses – to increase the availability of locally grown produce in a conservation-friendly way. Merrigan and other Obama

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Organic Home Gardeners and Farmers – please participate in this survey on late blight

Organic Home Gardeners and Farmers – please participate in this survey on late blight

Calling All Organic Tomato Growers

If you grew or tried to grow tomatoes in 2009 and you used organic practices to do it, we want to hear from you about your experience with late blight. NOFA/Mass is researching organic management strategies that Northeast tomato growers – both farmers and gardeners – used in 2009 to mitigate the late blight.

To contribute to the collective knowledge about dealing with one of the most destructive crop diseases that has affected our region in recent memory, please click on the following link and take the survey there:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=7gWicbMRJAK9uhwb_2bBtdxw_3d_3d

A TRUE Agricultural Economy

A TRUE Agricultural Economy

Happy Thanksgiving Everyone!

A few weeks ago there was a beautiful 15 minute piece on Dan Rather Reports about Hardwick and the Center for an Agricultural Economy.

Even if you think that you know what is going on in the Hardwick area, I suggest that you invest a few minutes to watch this story.  I believe that it can serve as a model for what we could do here in the valley in terms of agriculture, but we are a long way from what they are doing in the Northeast Kingdom.

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MRV Thanksgiving Farmers’ Market – This SUNDAY

MRV Thanksgiving Farmers’ Market – This SUNDAY

MRV Thanksgiving Farmers' Market

Don’t miss the Annual Mad River Valley Thanksgiving Market!

This Sunday from 9am to 1pm at the Round Barn Farm in Waitsfield.

2009 VENDORS
Amann Leather
Artcast Inc.
Bazis Studios
Farmer Sue
Flavors from the Field
Fun Yums Bakery
Gaylord Farm
Gizmo’s Pickled Plus
Green Seed Herbals
Hartshorn Farm
Heidï’s Treasures LC
Ingrid Gitnick
Kind Horn Farm
Klinger’s Bread Company
Liz Lovely Cookies
Mad River Antler
Mad River Massage
McGurran Bee Farm
Nature’s

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