In our ongoing efforts to develop a more effective response plan to severe weather events, Green Mountain Farm Direct attended a focus group for Northeast Kingdom Farm Resilience. NOFA-VT is hosting a series of meetings in the Northeast Kingdom to bring together the farm community and take steps towards building resilience in response to the past two years of flooding.
Specifically, attendees discussed the impacts of flooding on farms in the Northeast Kingdom and appropriate strategies for planning and response. Based on these discussions, the research team at the Agricultural Marketing Resource Center (a national organization that supports farm communities) will analyze the information and plan a follow-up action planning session to finalize a community project plan and prioritize the next steps. The planning group will receive $22,500 to fund the project.
