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Cultivating Connections
February 2026
| | 🪢 Read on for mutual aid resources to see how you can plug into the moment! 🪢 | | |
We are so excited to have launched our first ever
full-diet CSA share for the winter season earlier this month. CSA members have been thrilled to receive a weekly mix of dairy, meat, veggies, fruit, eggs and value added goods and we continue to receive positive feedback to help guide the remaining weeks of the season.
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We have ONE SPOT LEFT!
9 weeks remaining | $70/week | All Local Food
We're partnering with our favorite local farmers to bring you a delicious start to 2026! Organic dairy, fresh bread, pastured-eggs, colorful fruit and veggies, sustainable meat, and so much more to nourish you each week from February through April.
| | If you'd rather shop on your own, the market is open every Friday at noon through Monday at 10am. | | Call for Local Businesses: Claim Your Ad Space in the 2026 Local Food and Farm Guide | |
Don't miss this annual opportunity to align your business or organization with ACORN, and support local food security and farm viability. For the first time ever, we'll be inserting 10,000 copies of the Guide into 7 Days which means your ad will have even greater reach! Email alyssa@acornvt.org by March 2 to save your ad space. Artwork is due March 27 and payment is due June 5.
Click here to see our full 2026 media kit with all the details.
AND! If you're buying local food for your business, get counted in the 2025 Local Food Count!
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Save the date!
2026 Tour de Farms will be Saturday, Sept. 19
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We'll once again ride 37 miles through the iconic Middlebury, Weybridge, Cornwall, and Salisbury farms and fields, but we heard you loud and clear! We'll add in a family-friendly, shorter route this year and fundraising will be optional (although still needed and appreciated and LOVED!).
Keep an eye out for an email/ social media announcement in early spring when early bird tickets will go on sale.
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Spring and Summer CSAs are open!
(Or opening very soon!)
| | Support Our Migrant Neighbors | | |
Check out the ACLU-VT’s summary of legislative activity and take action to let your legislator know that you support bills that would curtail attacks against immigrant communities and provide greater protections from detention and deportation.
Migrant Justice is growing their Rapid Response Network – now at over 2,000 trained volunteers around the state – and building the capacity of other community organizations in Vermont and beyond to fight for the freedom of detained community members. Sign up here.
ICE on the Farm: Join Farm Commons for a webinar to take a closer look at what federal law says about ICE access to farm property, including fields, homes, and other non-public areas. Whether you are a farm owner, farm worker, or work for a nonprofit organization, folks will leave better equipped to make informed, thoughtful decisions with tools grounded in both the law and care for agricultural communities
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Throughout the Year, Buy Local
ACORN's Online Market is loaded with frozen berries, meat, dairy, winter storage crops and more!
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We are grateful to be in community with you.
Happy lunar new year! 🔥🐴
Lindsey, Jess, Abby, Alexandre, Alyssa and the ACORN Board
| | | | The Addison County Food Resource Guide is complete! Thank you to Gina and Taylor from the Middlebury Local Health Office for compiling a resource list of all the free distribution locations, food pantries, meals-to-go, meal sites, and food programs in Addison County. | | | | |
