The People’s School of Agroecology is teaming up with FarmHack to host a collaborative, practitioner-driven design charrette to design a Mobile Classroom & Shop on Sunday, November 8th from 10am - 2pm in Stannard at Black Dirt Farm. Free; lunch provided. Space is limited; learn more and RSVP today.
Join us at Black Dirt Farm in Stannard for greenhouse deconstruction and reconstruction! We will be taking down a 30’x100’ high tunnel that was damaged by snowload last winter. If time permits we will begin rebuilding a modified temporary greenhouse in its place with the salvageable materials. Instruction provided.
Work brigades are a super fun opportunity to connect with your community and neighbors, and support farmers - practically and in terms of morale, while strengthening our communities with trust and solidarity through collective labor, connection, mutual aid, and knowledge sharing. In addition to the greenhouse work, this brigade will feature a short discussion about compost heat recovery, solving for ‘metabolic rift’ in our communities and its role in building food sovereignty in Vermont, and related food scrap reuse and recycling policy in Vermont.
Come join Rural Vermont and Mary Lake on Sunday, November 1st at the Dodge Farm in Berlin for a merino lamb on-farm slaughter and processing workshop. In the first half of this 2-part workshop, participants will learn how to slaughter a lamb humanely; in the second half, how to butcher and process it efficiently.
The workshop will be held at Dodge Farm in Berlin. The Dodge Farm is home to Aurora Fiber Mill- a custom processing facility for local fiber farms. We raise merino sheep for our Aurora Made line of knitwear, which goes from sheep to sweater on site, and hope to sell breeding stock someday. We also source local wool from sheep and alpaca for our woolen products. The Dodge Farm currently has 27 sheep.
Come join Rural Vermont and Mary Lake on Saturday, October 24th at Canoe Brook Farm in Dummerston for a lamb on-farm slaughter and processing workshop. In the first half of this 2-part workshop, participants will learn how to slaughter a lamb humanely, and in the second half, how to efficiently butcher and process it.
The workshop will be held at Canoe Brook Farm, where Chris Olsen and partner Gavy raise sheep, goats, and chickens with an emphasis on building soil and ecological diversity with minimal inputs by embracing plants and animals well adapted to the site, both on their home farm and leased land; incorporating joy and whimsy where possible.
Join the Vermont Wild Kitchen, Samantha Langevin of Liberation Ecosystems, and Ella Mighell of Bread & Butter Farm for a Fall feast of fish tacos! We'll grill stuffed trout, make tortillas over the fire, and layer flavor with sauces. Come to the kitchen & gather around the fire as we transform seasonal abundance into deliciousness. Bring your appetites, your questions, your friends, and meet us in the Vermont Wild Kitchen. This event will take place outdoors.
Join the Vermont Wild Kitchen for an evening of venison and fall classics in Woodbury, Vermont! Vermont Game Warden Abigail Serra will join us for a whole-deer processing demonstration, where participants can watch how to process a deer and ask questions. We’ll then turn that deer into delicious venison burgers while we prepare an assortment of fall classics for sides. If you’re able, please join the VWK a bit early for an optional land walk-and-talk around Buck Lake. Bring your appetites, your questions, your friends, and meet us in the Vermont Wild Kitchen.
NOTE: This event is at capacity and the wait list has closed.
We hope you will visit our table at the 2026 Draft Animal Power Field Days on Saturday, October 3rd, at the Shelburne Farms Breeding Barn in Shelburne, VT. We’ll be available to discuss the 2026 legislative session and news from the Statehouse, offering block art, and sharing a variety of literature relevant to our advocacy, education, and organizing initiatives. Please stop by!
Join us in Corinth at Bottomless Well Farm for a Yurt relocation & winterization! Join us in supporting winter housing needs for a local goat farmer in Corinth. Learn about yurt construction, deconstruction, and all the pieces that need to come together for year-round yurt living. Lunch provided.
We are hoping for a “yurt moving”, where we are able to pick up and relocate the yurt while it is still intact. If that isn’t possible, we will be deconstructing, moving, and reconstructing the yurt as a group. Lots of project opportunities for all abilities.
Work brigades are a popular educational tool used worldwide to strengthen communities and build trust and solidarity through collective labor, connection, mutual aid, and knowledge sharing. We provide all refreshments, education, and tools, but please bring your own (labeled) drill and drill bits if you have one.
Vermont Wild Kitchen is touring farmers markets around the state! Come visit with us to sample venison sliders and market veggies, snag a sticker, and find out when VT Wild Kitchen is coming to your neighborhood!
The Vermont Wild Kitchen is co-presented by Rural Vermont and the VT Dept of Fish & Wildlife. It is a wild and farm-fresh food cooking collaboration that celebrates all the foods that make up our local foodscape, and seeks to make all of these foods more accessible to more people.
Join Rural Vermont for one of our favorite annual traditions! Our friends at American Flatbread / Burlington will be donating a portion of all dine-in and take-out flatbread sales to Rural Vermont. Gather up a crew and head to Burlington! While there, stop by the Rural Vermont table to say hello, snag a sticker, catch up on ag policy, and make some art with us!
Rural Vermont invites members, friends, and neighbors to join us for a morning of eating, playing, learning, and building community at Longest Acres Farm in Chelsea on Sunday, August 30th from 10AM - Noon. Bring a pie to share and be ready to learn about the Vermont food system via pie, play some bingo to win delicious pies to take home, and maybe even chuck a mud pie or two.
Vermont Wild Kitchen is touring farmers markets around the state! Come visit with us to sample venison sliders and market veggies, snag a sticker, and find out when VT Wild Kitchen is coming to your neighborhood!
The Vermont Wild Kitchen is co-presented by Rural Vermont and the VT Dept of Fish & Wildlife. It is a wild and farm-fresh food cooking collaboration that celebrates all the foods that make up our local foodscape, and seeks to make all of these foods more accessible to more people.
Join the Vermont Wild Kitchen, Knoll Farm, and Friends of the Mad River for a mid-summer celebration of bounty! We’ll be cooking up lamb, blueberries, and mushrooms and folding in a few fun learning opportunities in addition to a shared meal. Bring your appetites, your questions, your friends, and meet us in the Vermont Wild Kitchen.
The event is free but registration is required.
Rural Vermont is partnering with our farmer friends at Maple Wind Farm on Friday, August 14th, and we hope you'll join us to chat, hear about the latest RV initiatives, check out our merch and summer raffle, and more!
Ever wanted to learn how to build a greenhouse or high tunnel? Want to support a local trans and queer-owned farm? Join us at Magnetic Fields Farm in Athens for greenhouse construction and repair! We will be building and mending two 30’x96’ Ledgewood high tunnels. All instruction provided. Note that this brigade focuses on metal frame construction; we won’t be putting poly on (yet!). There’s additional opportunities to support weeding and trellising if that’s of more interest.
Vermont Wild Kitchen is touring farmers markets around the state! Come visit with us to sample venison sliders and market veggies, snag a sticker, and find out when VT Wild Kitchen is coming to your neighborhood!
The Vermont Wild Kitchen is co-presented by Rural Vermont and the VT Dept of Fish & Wildlife. It is a wild and farm-fresh food cooking collaboration that celebrates all the foods that make up our local foodscape, and seeks to make all of these foods more accessible to more people.
In partnership with UVM Extension 4-H, Rural Vermont, the People's Agroecology School and Vermont Woodlands Association, join us for a hands-on tractor safety day. Youth 14 and up may participate in this training and are eligible to earn their certification under the National Safe Tractor and Machinery Operation Program (caregivers will need to sign a waiver for their participation). An inclusive space but designed for women and youth.
The day will include small group, hands-on instruction on tractor safety including: backing up, understanding the clutch, PTO safety, center of gravity considerations and more.
We'll stop to eat lunch and socialize together. Lunch will be made by VYCC and provided by Rural Vermont.
Space is limited, registration required.
Vermont Wild Kitchen is touring farmers markets around the state! Come visit with us to sample venison sliders and market veggies, snag a sticker, and find out when VT Wild Kitchen is coming to your neighborhood!
The Vermont Wild Kitchen is co-presented by Rural Vermont and the VT Dept of Fish & Wildlife. It is a wild and farm-fresh food cooking collaboration that celebrates all the foods that make up our local foodscape, and seeks to make all of these foods more accessible to more people.
Tapalou Guild | Guildford, Vermont
Join the Vermont Wild Kitchen and Tapalou Guild for an early-summer mystery dinner! Participants will be asked to bring their own ingredients to share with the group. Then Hanna Jenkins of Tapalou Guild will lead everyone in making a mystery communal meal. If you’re feeling adventurous, we hope you’ll bring your appetites, your questions, your friends, and meet us in the Vermont Wild Kitchen.
Join Rural Vermont for one of our favorite annual traditions! Our friends at American Flatbread / Stowe Hearth will be donating a portion of all dine-in and take-out flatbread sales to Rural Vermont. Gather up a crew and head to Stowe! While there, stop by the Rural Vermont table to say hello, snag a sticker, catch up on ag policy, and make some art with us!
May Day is for working people! If you aren’t a billionaire, show up for some of the hardest-working farmers in our community on May 1st! This all-day picket will be happening on May 1st from 7 am - 11 pm, with a 5 pm march on the Ice Data Center and a Rally at 7 pm to follow.
Rural Vermont will be at the Williston Hannafords to support Migrant Justice and demand better conditions for dairy workers in our state from 11 am - 1 pm.
Join the Vermont Wild Kitchen and North Branch Nature Center for a spring evening of smoked turkey, spring edibles, and fun discussion. We’ll go on a spring wild edibles walk to look for and learn about ramps and fiddleheads. Then we’ll talk about smoking turkey, spring turkey hunting season, and farming turkeys. Everyone will make some ramp compound butter and then enjoy a meal together. Bring your appetites, your questions, your friends, and meet us in the Vermont Wild Kitchen.
