The Vermont Working Landscape Partnership

VCRD is facilitating a non-partisan and broad-based partnership to support local agriculture and forestry, grow and attract farm and forest entrepreneurs, and conserve Vermont’s Working Landscape far into the future. Join the Partnership (click the "Join the Partnership" button to the right) to add your voice, keep informed, and help shape the campaign for Vermont's Working Landscape.

What's New in the Working Landscape Partnership Program

Working Lands Enterprises are Growing Throughout the State

The Working Lands Enterprise Board received a total of 387 applications for the three investment areas, for a total requested amount of $11,569,397.

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Working Lands Coalition Calls for “5-by-3” Investment: Five million per year for three years will build a strong working lands economy

Working Lands supportersMembers of the Working Lands Coalition launched their “5-by-3” campaign on Wednesday, February 13, 2013, at the Vermont State House. The day included an early morning presentation to the Rural Economic Development Working Group (REDWG), testimony in front of the House and Senate Agriculture Committees, and a press conference in the Cedar Creek Room.

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Working Lands Coalition 5x3 campaign launch in the press

Here are a few recent articles about the launch of the Coalitions 5x3 campaign requesting $5M for each of the next three years:

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