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City Market, Onion River Co-op, is a Vermont institution. From modest beginnings on Archibald Street in the Old North End, the member-owned cooperative has been providing local, organic and conventional food to the Burlington community for more than 40 years. Now it’s a huge force in the local food ecosystem. City Market works with more than 1,000 Vermont vendors from around the state. In 2020, its sales topped $53.8 million; Vermont products accounted for approximately 40 percent of that. And the co-op is about much more than making money. Promoting sustainable agriculture is part of its mission. So is ending childhood hunger and supporting essential community partners. That’s why City Market encourages shoppers to “round up” their purchases to the nearest dollar amount it colle
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BRATTLEBORO â Families in the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union (WNESU) received three free food boxes over the holiday break thanks to the tireless efforts of the Farm to School Cafe staff and farmers throughout the region. The food boxes contained a weekâs worth of bulk meal ingredients for breakfast and lunch to help stretch familiesâ grocery budgets and keep students nourished over the long break. The Farm to School Cafe reached out to Food Connects to fill those boxes as much as possible with high-quality foods from local producers, including fresh New Hampshire-made bread, Vermont cheese and produce, and fresh fruit.