Intervale Center

Exciting news! The Intervale Center has been awarded the 2024 New England Food Vision Prize by Henry P. Kendall Foundation! This funding will enable the Intervale Center to grow the Intervale Food Hub's capacity to connect small-to-mid-scale farmers and producers to institutional markets, ultimately increasing the amount of local food served at higher education campuses in our region and reducing barriers to market access for farms, especially socially disadvantaged farms. Launched by the Henry P. Kendall Foundation in 2018, the New England Food Vision Prize Program aims to increase the amount of local and regional food prepared and served on New England college and university campuses and within K-12 public school districts, helping to strengthen the region’s food system. The Prize program, now in its fifth year, awards grants up to $200,000 to winning teams. Prizes are awarded to projects that build resilience, relationships, and capacity within New England’s academic institutional food supply chain,resulting in increased preparation, sourcing, serving, or use and consumption of local and regional food at K-12 schools and higher education institutions.

Happy Monday! Make sure to head to our website for our latest featured positions.? ? This week’s Weekly Update is featuring:? ? Environmental Defense Fund - Climate Corps ? Intervale Center? Audubon Canyon Ranch? Faith in Place? Community Energy Project, Inc.? Island Institute? Washington Trails Association? EarthCorps? Chesapeake Climate Action Network? The Conservation Alliance?

The Intervale Center is hiring a dynamic, mission-driven Development Manager to join our team in Burlington, Vermont! The Development Manager is a member of the Intervale Center’s development and communications team, providing critical leadership in the areas of donor tracking and stewardship, appeals, and communications. They process donations, manage the donor database, oversee appeals, coordinate corporate volunteers, engage in donor stewardship, support events and other development functions, and accomplish other important tasks as needed. The complete job description with application instructions can be found at: https://lnkd.in/eq8zbSCc Intervale Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity of experience, background, and perspective to enrich our work. Applications by members of all underrepresented groups are encouraged.

For a second year in a row, farms are experiencing historically high floodwaters during peak growing season, and despite precautions taken to mitigate potential flood damage, losses are still high. Your donation will go directly to Intervale farmers to help them recover from those losses. We cannot thank you enough for showing up for our community food system and standing in solidarity with our farmers and growers. It is undeniable that our climate is in crisis, and your help is providing critical support for farmers to navigate a path to recovery and resiliency. Donate today to the Intervale Farmer Recovery Fund: https://lnkd.in/eqHdRu6t

The Intervale Center is a leader locally and nationally in farm viability, food systems equity, food access, ecosystem restoration, native seed conservation, and land stewardship. Our programs together build a thriving and just farm economy, working to ensure that everyone is food secure. ? In our new Strategic?Plan, you’ll find the vision, mission, values, goals, objectives, and strategies that will guide our work over the next five years. This plan gives us focus on what is needed today and tomorrow and allows us to enhance our impact in the food system - leading the movement to build a just, thriving, and climate resilient food system for all. Read the full report here: https://lnkd.in/edqAbhJc

Our Farm Business Planning team provides Vermont’s farmers – from aspiring farmers to established business owners – with business development opportunities. Becca Knouss, farmer and owner of The Goat Project in Bennington, Vermont, began working with the Intervale Center’s Beginning Farmer Program in 2020. Through her work with the Intervale Center and Farm Viability, Becca has now developed a full business plan, marketing plan, and financial projections for years to come. Read more about The Goat Project and the work our Farm Business Planning does here: https://lnkd.in/eVWzPXmq

In 2023, the Intervale Center acted as a lead organization in the research and writing of Vermont Farm-to-Plate's Vermont Food Security Roadmap, which launched at the end of January. The Roadmap is a collective effort of the Farm to Plate Network, researchers, partner organizations, and Vermonters who contributed their personal expertise and experience regarding food security. Learn more and read the Vermont Food Security Roadmap here: https://lnkd.in/gxaNV9zN

The Intervale Center is hiring for multiple positions! ? The Intervale Food Hub Operations Coordinator works collaboratively with the Food Hub team to successfully implement operations, increase efficiency and productivity, and run free food distributions year-round in the greater Burlington area. ? The Intervale Conservation Nursery Planting Crew will support the Intervale Center’s conservation efforts by assisting in tree harvest, planting, and general nursery tasks, as well as participating in invasive species removal and stewardship projects. ? The Propagation Assistant is an essential role in production of native tree and shrub propagation at Intervale Conservation Nursery. This position reports to the Sales Manager and works with the ICN team to produce conservation grade trees and shrubs and achieve nursery goals. The Propagation Assistant supports greenhouse production, facilitates volunteer workdays, and coordinates field production and transplanting with the ICN team. ? The Intervale Conservation Nursery is hiring two Seed Crew Members for Spring 2024 to work with ICN staff and partners to collect, process, and store native riparian tree and shrub species for restoration practices across the state. To see the full job descriptions and how to apply to any of these roles please visit: https://lnkd.in/eq8zbSCc

Over the years, our Farm Business Planning team has supported hundreds of farm and food businesses to grow and thrive through one-on-one business planning and coaching, financial planning, land access services, succession planning, and other technical assistance. In 2023 alone, our Farm Business Planning team has worked with 113 farms across Vermont, including 34 new or beginning farmers and 35 farmers that are working on long term land tenure through either the leasing or purchasing of land. To learn more about our work and support climate-resilient agriculture in Vermont, visit: https://lnkd.in/g3Cd6_iq

Round up at the register in December to support the @IntervaleCenter! For 35 years, the Intervale Center has led a community food revolution that sustains farms, land, and people. The organization works in Vermont and nationally to address massive challenges, including hunger and malnutrition, farm viability, water quality, and climate change. The Intervale Center has pioneered farm and food innovations in local food development, commercial composting, ecosystem restoration, farm business incubation, food access and food hub development. Please support continuing flood recovery and ongoing climate and food system work at the Intervale Center by rounding up this month!