Farm & Food Project: Green Mountain College

GMC's Farm & Food Project

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...

kenneth 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...

P.S. – If you’re interested, here are a few more things you should know about us:

We offer lambing training each spring in which students participate in “lamb-watches” and assist with delivery (see a video clip on YouTube: Part One, Part Two)
Students seasonally participate in our internship program with the vineyard, farm, and agricultural museum at Brunnenburg Castle in Italy
Our dining hall manager helps teach classes like “Food Preservation,” is an avid mushroom hunter, makes his own array of wines, and goes on farm tours with students and faculty
About 12 percent, or $60,000, of our annual food budget goes to local foods produced on the college farm and regional farms