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From I-89 North or South

In the winter, it's not uncommon for Vermont's resettled refugees to suffer from social isolation, sedentary lifestyles, and lack of access to fresh, healthy foods in the main resettlement site of Burlington.

We have continued work with New Farms for New Americans (NFNA), a program of the Association of Africans Living in Vermont, Inc. (AALV), and ����̽̽ Extension's EFNEP program to engage resettled refugee commercial farmers and/or gardeners in:

We are seeking to engage in a community-wide learning project to enrich our shared understanding of who farms in Vermont, and the context in which farmers do their work.�� The ����̽̽ Center for Sustainable Agriculture and the ����̽̽ Humanities Center (together with community partners) have been awarded a Creating Humanities Communities grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to allow us to:

Furthermore, projections for increased variability and further climatic changes will potentially further expose farmers and their businesses to risk. A recent Vermont survey of farmers showed that 56% of farmers believe climate change will negatively impact their farms and 31% are not sure (Agroecology, Ecosystems and Sustainability by Schattman and Conner 2015 - PDF).