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Dana Ruppert

Forest Business & Farm Viability Outreach Coordinator

Alma mater(s)
  • B.A., Geography, City University of New York

BIO

Dana coordinates programmatic activities and conducts general outreach for the Forest Business and Farm Viability program areas, and the Maple Sap Business Promotion project. Dana began working with Extension in 2015, and previously managed farm conservation and disaster assistance programs at the USDA Farm Service Agency, and agricultural outreach and water-quality projects with a Vermont conservation district. Before that, she managed sustainable energy grant programs working with local manufacturing business at a non-profit in NYC. She has worked on diversified vegetable, maple and organic dairy farms, and her own small homestead, since moving to southern Vermont in 2007.

Bio

Dana coordinates programmatic activities and conducts general outreach for the Forest Business and Farm Viability program areas, and the Maple Sap Business Promotion project. Dana began working with Extension in 2015, and previously managed farm conservation and disaster assistance programs at the USDA Farm Service Agency, and agricultural outreach and water-quality projects with a Vermont conservation district. Before that, she managed sustainable energy grant programs working with local manufacturing business at a non-profit in NYC. She has worked on diversified vegetable, maple and organic dairy farms, and her own small homestead, since moving to southern Vermont in 2007.