UVM Blogs

Here at the VT WAgN office, we are busy helping our mid-west colleagues prepare for the 4th National Women in Sustainable Ag Conference: Cultivating Our Food, Farms and Future. The conference will be held November […]

Every once in awhile, we like to share interesting articles we are reading on other blogs.  This one from Jody Urquhart, a motivational speaker and columnist, stuck a cord with the women working here at the WAgN […]

For the past three years, I have had the privilege to coordinate the Whole Farm Planning for Beginning Women Farmers course at UVM Extension.  This unique course offers women farmers training in holistic management , a farm business planning strategy based on personal values and respect for the triple bottom line— financial, environmental and…[Read more]

The UVM Extension New Farmer Project and Women’s Ag Network are about to launch the third year of Whole Farm Planning for Beginning Women Farmers .  The 10-session course will be offered at Shelburne Farms in Shelburne, VT beginning this January. Applications will be accepted through Oct. 28. The free course, coordinated by the University of…[Read more]

Passing on the farm business should be on every farmer’s planning horizon.  While letting go of the farm you put your blood, sweat and tears into might be hard to imagine, thinking about this eventuality now can only benefit you down the road. In any situation, farm transfers are a complicated business– financially, legally, and emotionally.  [...]