Food Works at Two Rivers Center for Sustainability
To provide low-cost, fresh, local food to organizations serving low-income Vermonters and build an income-generating client base that enhances Food Works’ financial sustainability.
Grant Program Regional Food Systems
Center for an Agricultural Economy
To promote a sustainable, local food system through farm mapping, supporting agricultural entrepreneurs, providing technical assistance to farmers, and promoting the food system model throughout Vermont and New England.
University of Vermont Institute for Artisan Cheese
To support Vermont’s artisan cheesemakers through education and technical assistance that will produce cheeses of consistently high quality and reduced microbiological risks.
Vermont Agency of Agriculture
To support the 2010 Vermont Cheesemakers Festival.
North Country Health Consortium
To recruit and retain young people in health-related occupations to meet the growing demand for health care in northern New Hampshire.
Vermont Works for Women
To support training, business development, and oversight for FRESH Energy, which provides paid, on-the-job training for women in the fields of weatherization and solar tracker installation and advances efforts to reduce the region’s carbon footprint.
Strolling of the Heifers
To provide at-risk youth with summer employment and work experience in agriculture and provide unskilled labor to local farmers.
Food Works at Two Rivers Center for Sustainability
To strengthen a food distribution network that provides universal access to local, healthy foods in central Vermont.
Vital Communities
To strengthen local food systems by increasing the demand for and access to local foods and by addressing farm-related challenges through partnerships and collaboration.
Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund
To support the economic viability and environmental sustainability of Vermont agriculture.