The latest happenings from the UVM College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
The International Workshop on Agritourism (IWA) 2022 Conference Proceedings is now available online. The publication is intended to increase access to the scholarship that was shared during the three-day conference, which was hosted by UVM Extension in Burlington, VT, on August 30 to September 1, 2022.
Click this link to download the 2022 conference proceedings in PDF format.
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During the summer of 2023, the Vermont Dairy Mapping Project launched with a team that visited several dairy farms to interview farmers about their disease-prevention biosecurity practices. The project team collected information that will be used to prepare a disease outbreak response plan for each farm, based on the national Secure Milk Supply Plan template. The team also “field tested” a new online mapping application that was developed to make the visual mapping part of a plan easier to create. Continue reading “VT Dairy Mapping Project Kicks Off at UVM Dairy Farm”
Brady Miller, Erica Hoover, Abigail Brown, and Anna Riordan wrote about a day in their lives as students who participate in the Cooperative for Real Education in Agricultural Management or CREAM program, where students care for the dairy herd and perform all of the barn chores. Continue reading “A Day in the Life of Students in the Summer CREAM Program”
Several years of effort by a Vermont team to elevate the social issues that farmers face was an impetus for a new USDA Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education (SARE) bulletin on social sustainability. Continue reading “SARE Publication Frames Social Sustainability in Agriculture”
Since 2017, the Vermont Urban & Community Forestry Program has worked with the Arbor Day Foundation and local partners to give free trees to Vermonters through the Community Canopy Program. Continue reading “750 Free Trees to Vermonters”