The Garden at 485 Elm
People growing together:
a collaborative community garden in Montpelier, Vermont

Tell your food story Feb. 15 at the Winter NOFA VT Conference

Make your 30-second pitch by Jan. 23 to tell your story of five minutes or less at the 33rd annual NOFA Winter Conference. The “Story and Poetry Slam” will serve as the’s year’s conference keynote. On Sunday, Feb. 15, at 9:30 a.m., the floor goes to “farmers, gardeners, and all Vermonters who love local logo-nofavtfood and farms to share stories from their own lives.”

The theme is Growing the Good Food Movement. Tell us a specific story or read us a poem about how you have experienced or are addressing, for example, farm or food equity, race, class, farm worker rights, or food sovereignty in your work or life.

Learn more here and here. Call the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont by Jan. 23 at 802-434-4122, ext. 30.

Come visit the Garden at 485 Elm and other community gardens at Conference’s Sunday Roundtables:  Vermont Community Garden Network Gathering and Garden Showcase.