Vermont Business Magazine
Author: Ed Barna
Many involved with the production, marketing or promotion of locally produced food use the word “movement” to describe what is happening around Vermont.
At a time when some believe farming is in decline, a fresh crop of younger farmers, joined by a fair number of the established agriculturalists, is acting on a conviction the state could go much farther down the road toward food self-sufficiency. These successors to the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s are starting or expanding operations that produce vegetables, fruits, grains, meat, fiber, prepared and processed foods and more. Conscious of the difficulty of turning a profit in an agribusiness system geared toward large-scale operations, they are developing innovative ways of bringing customers to their farms and their products to customers. And they are collaborating, networking, and providing mutual assistance, with the help of nonprofit organizations, trade associations, and state and federal agencies.
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