Posts by Rachel Fussell
Rachel Fussell is an AmeriCorps VISTA member working with Vermont Technical College as their Food Systems Coordinator. She helps manage the college's two-acre vegetable garden and works to increase local food in the college's cafeteria and in the community. For more information on agricultural programs offered at Vermont Tech please contact Melissa Neilson, Student Resource Advisor, at mneilson@vtc.edu or 1-800-442-8821 extension 1677.
Young and beginning farmers are turning to agriculture and farming as a way to connect with the land and as a viable and important career path. I did not grow-up thinking that I wanted to be a farmer. In fact, my teachers and adult role models associated agriculture and farming with those lacking other career…
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