07/17/2020
Join Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR) on Thursday, July 23rd at 1pm for our next webinar, Where Our Food Grows: Farmers’ and Producers’ Path to Recovery. This webinar will focus on how food producers in Vermont are responding to COVID-related challenges, including supply chain disruptions, shifting wholesale markets, and workflow adjustments to prevent virus transmission.
We’ll hear about what resources are available and what Vermont’s farmers still need as they prepare for long-term recovery, and we’ll have an interactive Q&A session with our panelists, moderated by Gaye Symington of High Meadows Fund, discussing what this recovery will mean for Vermont’s food system and economy in the months and years to come.
Presenters include: Intervale Center, Ceres Greens, Vermont Family Farms, Vermont Agency of Agriculture
This is the first of a two-part webinar series brought to you by VBSR and High Meadows Fund, exploring how leaders in Vermont’s food systems are recovering, adapting, and building resilience, from farmers to restaurants to nonprofit leaders.
This webinar is free for VBSR members and $20 for non-members. Learn more and register here:
Click here to register for this webinar. Before COVID-19, Vermont’s agricultural sector was simultaneously at the heart of Vermont’s cultural & economic identity and facing a crisis brought on by global market forces, demographic shifts away from rural communities, and looming effects of c...