Working Landscape In the News
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Video ~ VT Working Lands Bill Signing Ceremony read more... |
05/15/2012 Self Published |
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Video ~ Governor Shumlin's speech at the signing of the Working Lands Enterprise bill 5/15/12 read more... |
05/16/2012 Self Published |
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Working Lands Bill Moving toward Enactment: Governor expected to sign bill Tuesday afternoon MONTPELIER, VT – Legislators gave final approval to the Working Lands Enterprise Investment bill (H.496) in the final days of the session, and sent the bill to the Governor’s desk. Governor Shumlin is expected to sign the bill on Tuesday in St. Albans. read more... |
05/15/2012 Press Release |
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Natural resources: 'It was a pretty good year for the environment' Candace Page of the Burlington Free Press (www.burlingtonfreepress.com) interviewed Brian Shupe, Executive Director of the Vermont Natural Resources Council. He discusses the working landscape effort as well as other efforts they have been involved with this year. Burlington Free Press: When members of the Vermont Natural Resources Council ask you about the 2012 legislative session, what is... |
05/13/2012 Burlington Free Press |
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Highlights from the 2012 Vermont legislative session Agriculture Working landscape: $1.175 million is set aside for projects designed to spur forest and farm businesses and allow Vermont to preserve its landscape. The program will be staffed by two new state positions and overseen by a newly created board. H.496. Click HERE to read the whole article on the Burlington Free Press... |
05/12/2012 Burlington Free Press |
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Food and Agriculture: The ‘Value-Added’ Buzz By Josey Hastings The Working Lands Enterprise Investment Bill, the result of a year’s work by the Vermont Working Landscape Partnership, seeks to create a fund to award grants and loans to start-up businesses making value-added products from raw agricultural or forest materials. Value-added products are diverse, including confections, wooden furniture, sauces, canned goods, cheese, ice cream...and the list goes on. read more... |
05/03/2012 The Herald of Randolph |
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Landscape at work The passage of a bill this year to boost farm and forest enterprise says something about the pervasive and enduring commitment of Vermonters to the rural character of their state. read more... |
05/11/2012 Times Argus |
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‘Working lands’ get funding By PETER HIRSCHFELD, VERMONT PRESS BUREAU MONTPELIER — The idea wasn’t new: Energize a flagging agriculture sector by treating farm-based enterprises like dot.com startups. But backers of the “working lands” program proposed at the outset of the 2012 session asked for more than just the feel-good policy language. They wanted money — $3 million, to be precise. read more... |
05/11/2012 Times Argus |
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Tom Slayton Commentary: Working landscape is our signature I believe that the working landscape of Vermont — that familiar tapestry of farm fields, forests, small cities and compact villages — is vital to the future of Vermont, and is endangered. The working landscape is part of the signature of our state — important to our farm economy and our tourist economy, a place where Vermonters work, a producer of food and fiber, refreshing and beautiful to look at. It is part of our “brand” if you will, and part of who... |
05/03/2012 Times Argus |
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Vt. Senate Passes 'Working Lands' Bill The Vermont Senate has passed a bill designed to jump start farm and forestry projects. The "working lands" bill sets up a board that will oversee a fund to promote agriculture and forest ventures. Senate President pro tem John Campbell says he considers it the most important economic development bill the Senate has passed this session. Senate Natural Resources and Energy Chair Ginny Lyons says it's an important bill that brings forestry and forest products into a new... |
05/04/2012 Vermont Public Radio |
