Farmer Events

Join UVM Extension specialists for a farm tour to learn about ways to enhance bird, bee and beneficial insect habitats in your rotational grazing systems. Rebop Farm Wednesday, July 19, 10 a.m. − 12 p.m. 1320 Sunset Lake Road, Brattleboro, VT Registration: Call or email Kelsie Meehan at 802-656-4829 or kelsie.meehan@uvm.edu. To request a disability-related […]

Identify your communication and management preferences and practical ways to use them to build and retain a successful and productive crew. In this two-part workshop, we will use the DiSC Workplace Profile to help you identify your unique communication and management preferences and explore ways that your preferences affect your strengths and stressors related to managing labor. The DiSC model provides a common language people can use to better understand themselves and those they interact with. We can use this knowledge to reduce conflict and improve working relationships.

For decades, federal and state policy has been used as a tool to prop up the harmful industrial agriculture system, providing billions of dollars in subsidies and funding that leaves more humane and responsible farmers at a severe disadvantage in the marketplace. Join us for this webinar to learn how higher-welfare farmers can play a […]