We love seeing projects like this emerge spontaneously from community members!”
We’re grateful to support an effort aimed to lower barriers to organic, farm fresh foods for more people. “Farm Stands are a critical direct market for many Vermont farms. “Farm Stand Together is a community-based grassroots effort to increase food access and food justice while supporting the viability of Vermont farms,” said NOFA-VT Executive Director Grace Oedel. We are lucky enough to have several amazing farmstands in our own community and we’ve seen firsthand the friendliness and sense of connection they provide.” In addition, farm stands moved away from only accepting checks and cash to installing digital Point of Sales systems that allow for ease of transactions. Small Farm Operation (SFO) Definition: Farms are defined as persons engaged in farming who meet one of the threshold criteria for applicability of the Required Agricultural Practices below has produced an annual gross income from the sale of agricultural products of 2,000. To narrow the list of markets to what you're seeking, search geographically for specific counties, by particular days of the week, and if a market. “We were inspired to start Farm Stand Together after living through two pandemic years in Vermont and seeing the important role farm stands played in local communities,” said Kennedy. “A silver lining of the pandemic was that farm stands were able to truly serve their communities, going beyond selling vegetables and fruit to include many value-added products and becoming a near replacement for a trip to a grocery store. You can find any Vermont Farmers Market Association (VTFMA) member farmers markets in a grand list at the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont’s (NOFA-VT)'s Farmers Market Directory. The Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA-VT) is consulting on the project, as NOFA-VT runs similar food access programs subsidizing the costs of CSAs and farmers market products for low-income Vermonters. The farmstand is open Monday to Sunday 9am-5pm.
#OSHA STANDS FOR VT FARMS FULL#
We have a full service farmstand and coffee shop on site. That’s bad enough, but Wayne Farms was cited by OSHA in 2011 for. Congress established it under the US Department of Labor in 1970 when it passed the Occupational Safety and Health (OSH) Act. Farm Stand Together is organized by Meaghin Kennedy and Justin Reidy, who relocated to Vermont from Oregon three years ago before the most recent wave of COVID-induced migrations. Cedar Circle Farm & Education Center is a certified organic farm on conserved land along the Connecticut River in East Thetford, Vermont, just minutes from Norwich, VT and Hanover, NH. Such safeguards can help to ensure that workers were not caught-in or struck-by equipment when it is being cleaned or repaired.
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