Rural Vermont Wants to Hear from YOU: Two Opportunities to Share Your Story

  1. LISTENING IN PLACE: A COLLABORATION WITH THE VERMONT FOLKLIFE CENTER

    We are excited about collaborating with the Vermont Folklife Center on their new project, Listening in Place––a way to record and hear Vermonters’ personal experiences of coping with the COVID pandemic and general state of the world. This is a great opportunity for farmers to share their stories and we encourage you to do so! All you need is phone/internet connection and one hour for a remote interview. Please contact Mollie if you are interested.

  2. "FARMER VOICES IN HEALTHCARE" TESTIMONIAL PROJECT

    In 2018, healthcare was identified as a top concern amongst Rural Vermont's community. In response, we’re helping to bring the voices of the agricultural community to policy makers and are working in collaboration and across sectors to bring light to healthcare as an integral issue for all, particularly the working lands community.

    We are-launching our "Farmer Voices in Healthcare" Testimonial Project. Over the next few weeks, we are gathering short audio testimonials from the working lands community about their experiences with healthcare, or lack thereof, from all around the state––a particularly relevant issue now in light of COVID-19. Audio recordings will be used on Rural Vermont's website, social media, potential radio broadcast, and shared with legislators. Even if you would prefer to remain anonymous, we still want to hear from you!

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Please be in touch with Grassroots Organizing Director Mollie or Organizing Intern Indigo if you would like to share your experiences and we will send you more information. Farmers can record stories from home with a phone or internet connection.

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Rural Vermont on the Air!

Rural Vermont had opportunities this past week to speak about how we can meet more of our food needs locally with audiences of WGDR on Relocalizing Vermont (where we followed Sebastian Hielm - the Food Safety Director in Finland, where they meet 80% of their food needs domestically) and the Capital City Grange as part of its Lecturer series. We stressed the importance of transitioning the conversation from food security to food sovereignty, and the need to determine and actualize the socio-economic and human rights conditions which must be in place to have a just and equitable agriculture, food system, and society for everyone in our region.

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