December 6, 2016 Honorable Phil Scott Governor-Elect State of Vermont Dear Governor-Elect Scott, Congratulations on your victory. We share your interest in getting right to work in addressing Vermont’s economic woes and we believe agriculture deserves our immediate attention. Specifically,
Press Release For Immediate Release December 6, 2016 For more information, contact: Michael Colby, Regeneration Vermont (802) 595-0060/[email protected] Diverse Groups Call for a Bold, New Vermont Agriculture. Issue Open Letter To Governor-Elect Scott. Montpelier, VT – Today a group
By MICHAEL COLBY & WILL ALLEN Vermont agriculture exists in what seems to be two parallel universes, one in our minds and the other in reality. When people are asked to think about or imagine Vermont farming, they’ll inevitably mention
By Michael Colby The State of Vermont is on the verge of implementing “Phase One” of its plan to clean up Lake Champlain and the dozens of other impaired waterways throughout the state. In some of the most polluted areas
By Will Allen and Michael Colby The great divide between the well-marketed image of Vermont dairy farming and its stark and toxic realities is becoming harder and harder to ignore. The marketing shows healthy cows grazing on lush pastures. But
Vermont likes to be first, even if it is one of the smaller states. Vermont was the first state to ban slavery in 1777; the first to endow a state university, first to endow a land grant university, first to
Originally published on MyChamplainValley.com By Torrance Gaucher Regeneration Vermont, a fairly new non-profit based out of East Thetford, Vermont is working hard to keep the food supply safe in the Green Mountain State. The organizations main goal is to educate farmers
The battleground over industrial agriculture has, understandably, been centered around GMOs for the last two decades. In the U.S., the GMO debate has largely revolved around labeling, both nationally and, more successfully, on a state-by-state basis. Vermont, of course, was
The history of Vermont’s heavy adoption of industrial – or degenerative – forms of agriculture is also the history of its failure and decline. At every stage, beginning with chemical agriculture in the post-WWII era, the new techniques being promoted
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]Vermont has proven itself to be a leader when it comes to showing its concern over the use of genetically modified organisms (GMOs) in agriculture and food production. It was the first state in the nation to pass GMO-labeling legislation,
