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.
We hope you will join Rural Vermont for an evening book reading & discussion with Alexis Lathem (Lambs in Winter) & Teresa Mares (Will Work for Food) centered on farming, food, activism, & the people that make it all work!
Tuesday, March 24th
6:00pm - 7:15pm
Kellogg Hubbard Library
Hayes Room
Montpelier
This event is free; registration is encouraged!
Protect Farmland from Municipal Regulations!
Due to a 2025 Vermont Supreme Court ruling, farms and farming in VT are no longer exempt from municipal zoning, which means towns can regulate where growing food is allowed, what animals can be raised, or when machinery can be operated, among other possibilities. We are working with other agricultural organizations ( Vermont Farm Bureau, Agri Mark, Cabot, the Vermont Dairy Producers Alliance, NOFA-VT, the Vermont Association of Conservation Districts, the Connecticut River Watershed Farmers Alliance, Farm to Plate, and the Land Access and Opportunity Board) and lawmakers to address this and restore the exemption. Join our coalition for an informational webinar on Tuesday, March 26th, from 9:30am - 11:00am to hear about the ongoing work around this issue, our coalition’s proposal, and to receive your valued feedback.
RSVP required to receive the webinar link!
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!
Each year, Rural Vermont invites farmer members and ally organizations to learn about and engage in the legislative process, advocacy, and pending policy during the legislative session. This event series offers farmers and the broader agrarian community—homesteaders, gardeners, urban farmers, medicine makers, and food activists—opportunities to speak with lawmakers, voice their real-life concerns, and gain empowerment through learning more about the legislative process. We will be hosting Small Farm Action Day at the Vermont State House in Montpelier on Thursday, February 26th, from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM!
Please join us at the NOFA-VT Winter Conference on Saturday, February 14th! We'll have a crew in the Exhibitor's Hall making art and slinging info - stop on by! Also, Mollie Wills, Rural Vermont's Grassroots Organizing Director, and Graham Unangst-Rufenacht, RV's Policy Director, will both be presenting! Mollie will be presenting Internationalism & Why it Matters: Building Power in Vermont through Global Food Sovereignty with Martha Caswell on Saturday, the 14th, from 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm. Additionally, Graham will be co-leading a roundtable along with NOFA and Action Circles on Opportunities for Progress through State Policy Change on Saturday, the 14th, from 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm.
Join us for a series of three webinar presentations by Vermont Legal Aid staff specifically centered on the needs of the farming community related to healthcare and taxation. Submit your questions in advance or bring them to each webinar to get the most out of this opportunity (questions can be submitted within the RSVP). A presentation from Vermont Legal Aid staff will be followed by an overview of opportunities for how to increase engagement or take action around healthcare. This series is co-hosted by NOFA-VT and Rural Vermont. AnRSVP is required to receive the webinar link and information.
Come join Rural Vermont and Mary Lake on Saturday, November 15th at Wild Earth Farm in Randolph 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 then how to efficiently butcher and process a lamb in the second half.
Stand with farmworkers on Saturday, 11/15. Join the Milk with Dignity pickets of Hannaford Supermarket in Morrisville (10am-12pm), South Burlington (1-3pm), or Middlebury (4-6pm) – or come along for all three!
4:00-5:00 pm - Optional Pratt Refuge Land Walk
5:00-7:00pm - VWK Program
Join the Vermont Wild Kitchen and Vermont Land Trust for an evening of Venison Stew! We’ll be gathering at the Pratt Refuge in Duxbury, Vermont with Ella Mighell of Bread and Butter Farm and others for a night of good food and discussion. Bring your appetites, your questions, your friends, and meet us in the Vermont Wild Kitchen.
The event is free but registration is required and limited.
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 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!
Please join Rural Vermont and Merck Forest and Farmland Center in Rupert, Vermont on Saturday, November 1 for a pig slaughter and processing workshop.
Rural Vermont and Vermont Growers Association are excited to present a workshop collaboration at Tilia Hills! Tilia Hills is a small, diversified farm licensed as a Tier 1 Outdoor Cultivator, located in Franklin County and operated by husband and wife team Ethan Kramer and Kristin Wolford. Ethan and Kristin welcome us to their gorgeous outdoor cannabis operation.
Please join the Vermont Cannabis Equity Coalition on Saturday, October 25, from 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm at the North Branch Nature Center in Montpelier for an in-person community discussion open to industry professionals and community members. This event is free, but pre-registration is helpful! We see a significant amount of valid anger and tension from active licensees, those who have exited the market, those who still wish to join the market, medical patients, caregivers, patrons, and allies who seek improvement. Save the date! We want to hear from you!
For four decades, Rural Vermont has been proudly amplifying farmer voices, fighting for a farm and food system that cares for farmers, the people they feed, the ecosystems they nurture, and the communities they support.We’re ending this milestone year with an epic 40th celebration on Sunday, October 19th from 4-7pm at the Old Labor Hall in Barre, and you’re invited! There will be a potluck, live band, cash bar, art-making, stories, and lots more. Join us for an evening of joy, reflection, and community — let’s make it the celebration of the year! Help us plan by RSVPing ASAP.
Rural Vermont is partnering with our farmer friends across the state to celebrate our 40th anniversary this summer! We'll be at Earth Sky Time Farm on Sunday, September 28th and are excited to share our beautifully vivid four-panel mural chronicling four decades of amplifying farmer voices! We hope you'll join us to chat, make some art, get yourself (temporarily) tattoo'd, snag some birthday cake, check out our NEW 40th merch, and more!
Bring along a tee to make and take your very own Rural Vermont shirt!
