A Greeting from the Farm & Food Project Director Food and farming have always been central to our existence, but it’s only been in the last few decades that we mistakenly decided to pretend that we could leave it all up to someone else. The GMC Farm & Food Project is all about reclaiming what matters about nature, nurture, and nutrition – by way of learning why it matters. read more... A Greeting from the Farm Manager I think you would be hard pressed to find another liberal arts college at which students are learning how to drive oxen, organically grow thirty different kinds of fruits and vegetables, raise heritage breeds of livestock and poultry, harvest hay without tractors or diesel fuel, manage an off-the-grid greenhouse, butcher sheep, pigs and chickens, build high-tensile fencing, shear sheep, and produce their own honey, apple cider, pickles, eggs and milk. read more...
News & Events
2/8/10: Farmin' Fuel Plenary to Focus on Vermont Help to jump-start the cultivation of oilseed crops and the use of renewable liquid fuels in this region of Vermont by participating in the Farmin' Fuel Plenary February 16. The event is sponsored by Prudent Fuels, Inc. and the GMC Family Farm Forum. More...
2/4/10: GMC Launches New Sustainable Agriculture & Food Production Major Green Mountain College announced last week the creation of a new Sustainable Agriculture & Food Production major at the College. GMC will present the major concentration as part of its curricular offerings beginning in the fall 2010 semester. The major has been developed out of a highly successful sustainable agriculture concentration in the College's environmental studies program. More...
1/10: "Sustainability & Sustenance" Topic for Panel Discussion Prof. Philip Ackerman-Leist (environmental studies) participated in a panel discussion January 7 as part of the Sustainable Agriculture Panel Series at the Franklin Environmental Center at Hillcrest. Philip’s topic was “Sustainability & Sustenance: A Vision for Sustainable Agriculture in the Liberal Arts.” Other panelists included Melina Shannon-DiPietro, a director of the Yale Sustainable Food Project, Ben Waterman from the UVM Center for Sustainable Agriculture and Gregory Peck, a pomologist and scientist. The Middlebury College Organic Garden sponsored the series.
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