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Team Member Highlight: Meet Zymora
Meet Zymora! Zymora Davinchi joined the ShiftMeals fold back in May when she became a GrowTeam member at The Center for Grassroots Organizing in Marshfield, VT. She is now a ShiftMeals BIPOC Food Sovereignty Program Manager leading some dynamite initiatives and...
How To Make Spicy Garlic Dilly Beans
If you’re growing green beans in your garden right now it’s probably safe to say you’re currently up to your ears in them. For the past couple of weeks our GrowTeam sites have been picking around 100 pounds a week! Rather than eating them for every meal, or letting...
This Year’s Harvest Brings More Than Food — It Brings Community: Reflections from GrowTeam Manager Sammy
So far this season, ShiftMeals GrowTeams have had over 100 pairs of hands, in 7 different gardens and farms throughout Vermont. As we reach this moment of abundance in the season, I want to take a moment to reflect on all the work that has been done so far.
Center for Grassroots Organizing’s “Northstar Collective”
The Northstar Collective was created in partnership with The Center for Grassroots Organizing in Marshfield, Vermont by GrowTeam members to continue stewarding the land and learning about agriculture. With the guidance and support of their team leaders they created a collective that they could learn and grow with and continue to use their harvest for food justice and sovereignty.
Starting a Collective Community Garden at Bluffside Farm
Bluffside Farm, connecting with the shores of Lake Memphremagog in Newport, Vermont, contains woodland, recreational trails, beaches, idyllic pasture and cultivated farmland. For the past two months, in partnership with the Vermont Land Trust, our ShiftMeals GrowTeam...
ShiftMeals to Benefit from Hug Your Farmer Livestream featuring Dave Matthews, Grace Potter and More
This Thursday, June 25th, at 9pm, Burlington’s own Hug Your Farmer will be producing a livestream featuring performances from Dave Matthews, Grace Potter, Martin Sexton, Chadwick Stokes (of Dispatch), Tony-winner Kelli O’Hara, Kat Wright, Josh Panda, Bob Wagner,...
ShiftMeals GrowTeam Expands into Reciprocal Food Economy Providing Land Access to Vermonters
ShiftMeals is excited to launch a new GrowTeam initiative which invites Vermonters onto local farms and gardens across the state to grow their own food. By providing access to land and education, ShiftMeals hopes to foster a more sustainable local food system and...
Behind the Headlines: Tell Your ShiftMeals Story
ShiftMeals sprang up as a local food response to COVID-19 thanks to many unique community partnerships. Behind the headlines of free meals and community gardens, is a deeper story of individuals. This project is dynamic, co-creative, and would not be possible...
The Skinny Pancake to extend their ShiftMeals program by launching several “Victory Farms” across Vermont
The Skinny Pancake is launching a new initiative called the ShiftMeals GrowTeam in response to Vermont’s increasing food insecurity related to the COVID-19 pandemic. An extension of their ShiftMeals community meals program, ShiftMeals GrowTeam invites unemployed...
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