{"id":1776,"date":"2023-12-11T20:54:08","date_gmt":"2023-12-12T00:54:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/?p=1776"},"modified":"2023-12-11T20:54:57","modified_gmt":"2023-12-12T00:54:57","slug":"vt-agency-of-agriculture-12-18-virtual-listening-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2023\/12\/11\/vt-agency-of-agriculture-12-18-virtual-listening-session\/","title":{"rendered":"VT Agency of Agriculture 12\/18 Virtual Listening Session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please consider attending and sharing information about the Vermont Agency of Agriculture virtual listening session on Monday, 12\/18<\/p>\n<p><strong>Vermont Agency of Agriculture holding virtual Listening Session 12\/18 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>When:<\/strong> Monday, 12\/18 from 12:30 \u2013 2pm (drop in\/out as needed)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Where: <\/strong>Virtual \u2013 <a href=\"https:\/\/events.gcc.teams.microsoft.com\/event\/6f09ea15-792b-4b0e-b8d6-afd1a4f02949@20b4933b-baad-433c-9c02-70edcc7559c6\">please register here<\/a> to receive link<\/p>\n<p><strong>Who:<\/strong> All producers, processors and agricultural-adjacent organizations are encouraged and welcome to attend; legislators have been invited to attend as well<\/p>\n<p><strong>Structure:<\/strong> Agency of Agriculture staff will facilitate conversations around: The 2023 growing season\/flooding; needs and priorities for business viability; feedback and input for Agency presence and programming; other items as they arise<\/p>\n<p><strong>Future opportunities: <\/strong>This virtual session is part of a pilot series of opportunities for the Vermont Agency of Agriculture to be more accessible to the agricultural communities and hear their needs, priorities, experiences and feedback. The session on December 18th will be followed by 9 in-person sessions across the state in Jan \u2013 March of 2024, co-hosted with some of our non-profit and Natural Resource Conservation District partners. <a href=\"https:\/\/agriculture.vermont.gov\/agency-agriculture-food-markets-news\/new-vermont-farm-and-food-industry-stakeholder-listening\">Learn more here!<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Can&#8217;t make it or want to give feedback?<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/forms.office.com\/Pages\/ResponsePage.aspx?id=O5O0IK26PEOcAnDtzHVZxltUXfs1xPdKqYQknLdOfc9UNllNWjlOM1QzODJDTko1WExVUjFPMzBCVS4u\"><strong>Use this form <\/strong><\/a>to share your thoughts, priorities and\/or input on how these opportunities could and should be shaped in the future<\/p>\n<p><strong>Questions or feedback? Please reach out to Sarah McIlvennie directly at <\/strong><strong>sarah.mcilvennie<\/strong><strong> or 802-261-5866<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<\/p>\n<p>Abbey<\/p>\n<p>Abbey Willard <em>(she\/her)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Agricultural Development Division Director | Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food &amp; Markets<\/p>\n<p>116 State St., Montpelier Vermont 05620 | <a href=\"http:\/\/agriculture.vermont.gov\/\">http:\/\/agriculture.vermont.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"tel:8022722885\">Tel:802-272-2885<\/a> |<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/files\/2023\/12\/image004.png\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1780\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1780\" title=\"image004-png\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/files\/2023\/12\/image004.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Access <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/agriculture.vermont.gov\/flood\">Flooding Disaster Response and Recovery Resources<\/a><\/strong> for Agriculture.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/gF7swP\">Sign up<\/a><\/strong> to receive our weekly Ag Development e-newsletter updates on marketing opportunity, events and grants!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please consider attending and sharing information about the Vermont Agency of Agriculture virtual listening session on Monday, 12\/18 Vermont Agency of Agriculture holding virtual Listening Session 12\/18 When: Monday, 12\/18 from 12:30 \u2013 2pm (drop in\/out as needed) Where: Virtual \u2013 please register here to receive link Who: All producers, processors and agricultural-adjacent organizations are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/2023\/12\/11\/vt-agency-of-agriculture-12-18-virtual-listening-session\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VT Agency of Agriculture 12\/18 Virtual Listening Session<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2208,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1],"class_list":["post-1776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Terence Bradshaw","author_link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/author\/tbradsha\/"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4nZlV-sE","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2208"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1776"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1783,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1776\/revisions\/1783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/fruit\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}