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The flooding this summer almost wiped out the turkey crop at Maple Wind Farm in Richmond, but the farm owner and staff worked to make turkeys available to its community.
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Nando Jaramillo grows heirloom corn in Vermont using regenerative farming practices. He uses the corn to make masa for arepas and empanadas, which he sells throughout Vermont's Upper Valley.
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Nando Jaramillo cosecha maíz tradicional, también llamado de reliquia, con prácticas de agricultura regenerativa. Utiliza su maíz para hacer masa de arepas y empanadas, las cuales vende en el Upper Valley de Vermont.
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Last week, the Agency of Agriculture offered thousands of tire sidewalls to farmers for free in an effort to cut down on mosquito breeding habitat and limit the spread of disease like West Nile virus. Since then, nearly all the cut-up tires have been claimed.
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Multiple reports have detailed widespread health and safety issues with the housing provided to farmworkers, many of whom live on-site.
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Heather Flor Cron creció en Portland, Maine, y siempre se sintió una extraña por ser parte de una familia multicultural. Pero decidió quedarse, y profundizó sus raíces trabajando en agricultura para alimentar a la comunidad Latinx a su alrededor.
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Heather Flor Cron grew up in Portland, Maine, feeling like an outsider because she was part of a multicultural family. But she decided to stay, and those roots have deepened through her work farming and providing for the Latinx community around her.
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A late season freeze and devastating flooding this year has shown more state and federal aid is needed for farmers to survive these extreme weather events
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Many farmers in Vermont face significant crop losses, even those that weren’t hit directly by the July floods. That's in part because the ground has been so saturated in recent weeks.
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Farms across the state, including at the Intervale in Burlington, provided for state food assistance programs — but now they are recovering from catastrophic flood damage that wiped out crops.