Projects completed in 2025

Farmer Grants

FNE23-044:
Monitoring and Management of Plum Curculio
in Apple Using Odor-baited Trap Trees

Casey Darrow

Green Mountain Orchards, Putney, VT

Graduate Student Grants

GNE22-291:

Vermont Farmers’ Land Ethics:
Stories from the Ground Up

Katherine Michels (Faculty Advisor: Dr. Amity Doolittle)

Yale School of the Environment, New Haven, CT

Novel Approaches Grants

LNE22-456R:

Culturally Meaningful, Regionally Adapted Seed:
Making the Ujamaa Cooperative Farmers Alliance Market Ready

Daniel Tobin

University of Vermont,, Burlington, VT

Partnership Grants

ONE22-408:

Dual Use Winter Vegetable
Peas: Examining the Viability of Double Cropping in Zone 4

Dr. Eric Bishop-von Wettberg

University of Vermont

Burlington, VT

ONE22-420b:
Understanding Farmer Decision Making in Performance-Based PES Programs
through the Vermont Pay for Phosphorus Program

Dr. Travis Reynolds

University of Vermont, Craftsbury, VT

ONE21-407:
Organic No-Till Forage Crop Innovations

Jeffrey Sanders

University of Vermont Extension, St. Albans, VT

ONE21-389:
The Creation of Two Alley Cropping Demonstration Sites
as Cases Studies on Massachusetts Farms

Meghan Giroux

Interlace Commons, Bristol, VT

Research and Education Grants

LNE22-439:
Scaling Northeastern Agroforestry Using a Farmer-centered Field Consultancy Model

Meghan Giroux

Interlace Commons, Bristol, VT

State Program

SNE21-013-VT:

Building Capacity to Support Diverse and New Farming Audiences in Vermont

Beth Holtzman

UVM Extension, Berlin, VT