This recipe comes to us from Velma, an NEK grandmother who's been cooking and caring for her community for over four decades. Read more about Velma in our most recent newsletter, but for now, try out the slaw, it's delicious!

The start of a new year offers us a chance to pause and reflect. It is a time to consider goals and dreams, practices we wish to continue, changes we’d like to make, and accomplishments we want to work toward.

Nicole is a paraeducator in Vermont. Her wage doesn’t cover living costs and she frequently has to make impossible decisions when it comes to affording groceries, health care, and housing.

In July of this year, Vermont was battered by rainstorms and catastrophic flooding. Washouts and landslides severed roads between many rural towns. Despite being closed off, the Foodbank network—that you help support—came together to support neighbors who, in many cases, lost everything.

With help from community partnerships, and help from you, culturally relevant produce is being delivered directly to migrant farmworker households.

At the Fairfield food shelf, neighbors are supporting one another through purchasing and distributing food grown within their own community. Thanks to a Foodbank grant program, and supporters like you, community members experiencing hunger can enjoy more local food grown by their neighbors.

Our 3SquaresVT team is here to support YOU! Our team at the Vermont Foodbank can help with 3SquaresVT (3SVT) benefits; we can answer your questions, assist you with an application, and connect you with other resources.

A lot changed for Joe after a medical emergency last year. No longer able to work, he found himself needing help with food for the first time. Now Joe is sharing his story and using his voice to support food access programs—and all the people who use them.

Hunger is solvable. Yet in the federal debt ceiling deal, one of the negotiated “tradeoffs” is to take food off our neighbors' tables. People over 50 and under 55[...]