This summer, Sterling College students assisted our gleaning program by harvesting fresh, excess produce from Pete's Greens in Craftsbury, VT. They gathered 450 lbs of chard for food shelves and meal sites in the area, as well as interviewed our Gleaning & Community Outreach Coordinator for the Northeast Kingdom, Andrea Solazzo. Beana Bern, Digital Content [...]
Homemade soup and handcrafted bowls by local potters will be the highlight at The Central Vermont Empty Bowl Benefit, a fundraiser for the Vermont Foodbank, on Sunday, February 15 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. at The Mud Studio in the Red Hen complex on Route 2 in Middlesex. Those attending the event will select a [...]
On July 22, Brianna Barker joined other Governor's Institute of Vermont students at the Vermont Foodbank, the Center for an Agricultural Economy and Pete's Greens to glean and process food for distribution to Vermonters in need. We invited Brianna to share her Governor's Institute experience with us: I am a high school student who volunteered [...]
On July 22, the Vermont Foodbank hosted a group from The Governor’s Institute of Vermont, which gleaned and processed food for distribution to Vermonters in need. The Governor’s Institute students also worked at the Center for an Agricultural Economy’s shared use processing facility in Hardwick, processing vegetables into packaged and cut forms. All of the [...]
The Mud Studio in Middlesex, Vermont recently raised $4,370 for the Vermont Foodbank through their Central Vermont Empty Bowl Benefit. Attendees of the benefit purchased a locally made, handcrafted ceramic bowl and were offered the choice of two homemade soups to either eat at the studio or carry out. “We thought that if people took [...]
Homemade soup and handcrafted bowls by local potters will be the highlight at the Central Vermont Empty Bowl Benefit, a fundraiser for the Vermont Foodbank, on Sunday, February 16 from 4:30 to 7:00 p.m. at The Mud Studio in the Red Hen complex on Route 2 in Middlesex. Those attending the event will select a [...]
