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GUILFORD â Already popular in the tri-state region, CSAs quickly sold out of shares last year as the pandemic gripped the nation.
A CSA, Community Supported Agriculture, is a production and marketing model whereby consumers buy shares of a farmâs harvest in advance. This year, shares are again selling fast and some local farmers are hoping to keep up with the demand.
âWe were planning to double our membership this year,â said Jonah Mossberg, who operates Milkweed Farm in Guilford with his partner, Emily Hartz. But their three-year lease on Mineral Springs Farm in Guilford Center expires at the end of this year and they need to find a spot to put down permanent roots.
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BRATTLEBORO â Tami Berkley Purcell, owner of Berkley & Veller Greenwood Country Realtors, recently hired Liz LaVorgna to join the agency as a Vermont-licensed Realtor.
LaVorgna has lived in the area for the last 10 years, working as a photographer of architecture, portraits, events and various social change projects. She also has worked closely with several non-profit groups and has taught photography classes through the Vermont Center for Photography. LaVorgna has 20-plus years of customer service experience and says she is excited to combine her skills to help people with their housing needs: renting, selling, buying, dreaming.
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Skylar Marshall, a volunteer with Everyone Eats, in Brattleboro, Vt., picks up order forms from a line of vehicles outside the Brattleboro Winter Farmersâ Market, on Flat Street, on Monday, Jan. 18, 2021. The program, Everyone Eats, restarted on Monday after stopping for a few weeks because of funding running out from the CARES Act on Dec. 30, 2020. Vermont Agency of Commerce and Community Development (ACCD) allocated $1.6 million to Southeastern Vermont Community Action, the Everyone Eats Program Administrator, to relaunch programming.
Kristopher Radder Brattleboro Reformer
Eli Coughlin-Galbraith, co-owner of Shapeshifters, in Brattleboro, Vt., makes the top stitch in a series of masks they are working on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2020. Coughlin-Galbraith said the material they use comes from many local New England suppliers and that they have made over 2000 masks that have been sold or donated to local organizations since the start of the COVID-19