Summer Internships

Rural Vermont is accepting applications for summer 2010 interns! Join Rural Vermont and work on projects that support the organization's grassroots advocacy work while building your resume and learning new skills! Internship opportunities include research, outreach, and fundraising projects.

For a full list of internship descriptions, click HERE.

To apply, please send a letter, resume, writing sample and references to:
Rural Vermont
Attn: Internships
15 Barre Street Suite 2
Montpelier, VT 05602
OR email shelby@ruralvermont.org with the subject line INTERNSHIP.
Applicaton deadline March 31st

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Rural Vermont's Activist Farmers: Photos and Stories

A Traveling Exhibit Visits the Bradford Public Lirary.

Throughout much of March, an exhibit featuring Rural Vermont's farmer-activist Board of Directors will be on display at the Bradford Public Library. Professional photographs and interviews tell the stories behind the farmers driving the nonprofit Rural Vermont and its work to secure fair prices for farmers and local food options for Vermonters. On Wednesday, March 3rd from 6:30 - 8 pm, Rural Vermont and the Bradford Public Library will host a free opening night reception with refreshments and live storytelling about the farmers and foods sustaining rural communities.

Rural Vermont's Activist Farmers: Photos and Stories gives a glimpse into the lives of fifteen farmers who are united around a common vision of economic justice. Professional photographer Corey Hendrickson of Hendrickson Photography and talented volunteer Robbie Stanley of Charlotte traveled the state to capture Rural Vermont's board members in their element and on their farms. Volunteers spent an afternoon with each of these folks and documented why they are finding time between haying, weeding, milking, marketing, and everything else farmers do from sun up until sun down to make Rural Vermont a top priority.

At the reception on Wednesday, March 3rd, join Rural Vermont to take in the exhibit while munching and mingling with neighbors and friends. The greater community's farmers and food producers will be celebrated and honored with some informal storytelling, so bring along poems, stories, or readings to share about favorite farmers, special meals, or the harvest season!

The exhibit will be on display at the Bradford Public Library through the end of March. The library is open Wednesday and Thursday from 12 - 8 pm, Friday from 10 am - 5 pm, and Sunday from 9 am - 2 pm.

Rural Vermont's Activist Farmers: Photos & Stories, on display at the Starksboro Public Library through the month of April, with opening night reception on Thursday, April 1st, 6:30 - 8 pm.

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Help protect Vermont's family farms! Join Rural Vermont! TODAY

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Cheesemaking Workshops!

Pictures from the 11/11/9 workshop, hosted by Lisa Kaiman of Jersey Girls Dairy Farm in Chester, are here.

Learn how to make all kinds of delicious dairy goods in your own kitchen! With some simple instruction and good quality raw milk, it's easy! Rural Vermont is partnering with some raw milk farmers and fans to bring you both. Classes will cover dairy processing basics, and will include info about how and where to purchase local, raw milk.

RESCHEDULED Yogurt, Cottage Cheese, Butter & Baking with Buttermilk with Millicent Johnson
Thursday, March 25th
Mount Holly Dairy-Aire Farm, MOUNT HOLLY
* SOLD OUT! Get in touch to be added to waiting list.

Soft Cheeses, Yogurt, & Kefir with Metta Earth staff
Sunday, March 28th
Metta Earth Institute Inc., LINCOLN

Mozzarella, Ricotta, & Fromage Blanc with Lindsay Harris of Family Cow Farmstand
Thursday, April 8th
Hollister Hill Farm, MARSHFIELD

Chevre with Gay Foster
Tuesday, May 25th
Hollyhock Farm, PUTNEY

Feta, Ricotta, & Chevre with Sara Armstrong Donegan of Trillium Hill Farm
Friday, June 11th
United Church of Hinesburg, HINESBURG

Unless otherwise noted:
All classes: $20 - 40 sliding scale. All proceeds benefit Rural Vermont.
Pre-registration is required, and class size is limited. Get in touch TODAY to reserve your spot!
To sign up, call Rural Vermont or email shelby@ruralvermont.org.

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Call to Artists!

Rural Vermont seeks donations of art from Vermont artists to use in our 2010 fundraising silent art auction. All work should reflect the artist's interpretation of our vision of Food with Dignity. The deadline is June 25, 2010. For more information, please email liz@ruralvermont.org or call 223-7222. Click here to download the flyer.

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Rural Vermont has helped to update the information about VT farmers selling raw milk posted at realmilk.com, a project of the Weston A. Price Foundation. That directory can be found HERE.

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