Resources & News
Reports & Studies
A sampling of reports about local food, local-food systems and local-food plans:
NOFA Vermont’s: Scaling Up Vermont’s Local Food Production, Distribution, and
Marketing
Waterbury-Duxbury Food Council: Food System Assessment
Northeast Kingdom: Regional Food System Plan
Vermont’s Farm to Plate: Strategic Plan Executive Summary
Vermont Law School Land Use Clinic: Facilitating Innovative Agricultural Enterprises:
Considerations and Example Language for Vermont Municipalities
Fairfield Growing: An Agricultural Economic Development Plan
News Stories
Goddard College: Spring 2013 Food Systems Forum
Valley News: Vermont Law School aims to lead on food policy
The Atlantic: How Regulation Really Does Change Eating Behavior
NPR: Drought hits “specialty crops” (aka “food”)
Bangor Daily News: Some towns looking to ordinances to make local farms exempt from state regulations
Newsday: New index ranks Vermont tops in locally grown food
The Valley Reporter: MR Food Hub collaborates with Food Works to expand distribution