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February 24, 2023February 28, 2023

UVM Horticulture Research and Education Center: A Year in Review

people standing around a bed of lettuce in a green house

The Horticulture Research and Education Center (HREC) recently presented a year-end review highlighting the significant research, teaching and outreach activities that took place at the farm in 2022. The 97-acre property located just a few miles from campus in South Burlington serves as the primary field laboratory site for agronomic and horticultural crop research for the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and is the home of the Catamount Educational Farm, which provides a platform for research and education, serves as a model for sustainable fruit and vegetable production, and generates food for the local community.

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February 22, 2023March 19, 2024

UVM Assisting with Farm to Plate Food Security Plan

A farm market with many colorful vegetables for sale such as tomatoes, purple broccoli, radicchio, and brussel sprouts.

On February 1, 2023, stakeholders from around Vermont gathered in Montpelier to work on a Vermont Food Security Plan. Organized by the Vermont Farm to Plate Food Security Strategy team, the meeting was for stakeholders with food system knowledge and experience, to experiment with and give input to the proposed food security plan writing process and tools. Continue reading “UVM Assisting with Farm to Plate Food Security Plan”

January 25, 2023February 28, 2023

Food Systems Research Center Welcomes New Director

headshot of Polly Ericksen

Earlier this year, Polly Ericksen was appointed as the inaugural director of the UVM Food Systems Research Center (FSRC), a collaborative partnership between UVM and the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service (ARS). She officially joined UVM in December after moving to Vermont from Nairobi, Kenya, where she spent the past nine years as the Program Leader for Sustainable Livestock with the International Livestock Research Institute.

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January 25, 2023January 25, 2023

Scenes from Winter Break Travel Study Courses

forest landscape with bright green leaves blurred in the foreground that frame a view of a lush forest. — A view from the Monteverde Cloud Forest in Costa Rica (photo: instructor Jacob Suissa)

For some CALS students, winter break was spent hard at work while immersed in travel study courses in St. Lucia and Costa Rica. See scenes from their travels. Continue reading “Scenes from Winter Break Travel Study Courses”

January 25, 2023

CALS New Hires-January 2023

Rodrigo Soares, Plant and Soil Science Postdoctoral Associate

Rodrigo Soares, PhD, is a postdoctoral associate in the UVM Plant and Soil Science Department. He earned his PhD in strategic communication and a masters in mass communication from the University of Central Florida (UCF). Continue reading “CALS New Hires-January 2023”