🌧️ It's a funny thing when the skies seem to match our collective mood. While we acknowledge there is a lot of grim news out there, we're here to bring some uplifting announcements and opportunities to connect. We hope you are taking good care to eat well, be with friends, get outside and take in some deep, cleansing winter breaths amongst the trees... just don't forget your micro-spikes or skates!🌲⛸️

2025 was pretty momentous for us; we doubled our cooler and freezer capacity AND bought a second cargo van (thanks to USDA's RFSI grant + the Kendall Foundation's New England Food Vision Prize).

While our dream is to secure an EV cargo van with a battery capacity that can power a reefer unit while also handling Vermont's cold temps, we are still very stoked with our new Ford Transit, Millie. We are now solidly equipped to haul local food to the four corners of the Champlain Valley! We can go north and south at the same time! 🤯

We are thrilled to welcome new customers Fire and Ice Restaurant and Addison Four Corners Store!

Support these businesses who are supporting our local farms! 💜

AND we welcome new-to-the-market producer Overstory Farm who cultivates mushrooms and pickles fiddleheads, among other delights sourced from their food forest.



The market is open every Friday at noon through Monday at 10am.

Call for Artists: Enter for Cover Art Contest for 2026 Local Food and Farms Guide

Email your art as a jpg or png file to info@acornvt.org to enter for a chance to have your work featured! The chosen artist will receive a $300 stipend. Submissions are open until 2/13 (Fri). We can’t wait to see your work!

Let us know how we're doing

You are invited to participate in our year-end-review of the ACORN Food Hub's online market. Help us better shape our work to meet your needs and bring more deliciousness to your home or business in 2026 by filling out this survey by Wednesday, January 28.

ACORN's first-ever full diet CSA

We are now accepting waitlist registrations for

ACORN's very own full-diet CSA share for the winter season

12 weeks | $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 veggies, sustainable meat, so much more to nourish you each week from February through April.

Support farms in their slow season and help ward off winter doldrums!

Spotlight On: HomeShare Vermont

HomeShare Vermont has been creating compatible matches for over 40 years between those who have room in their home (hosts) and people seeking an affordable place to live (guests). They are looking for more homes in Addison County!

Homeshare hosts can ask for rent and/or help with household tasks. For guests, this is an affordable option to renting. Guests pay an average of $380/month while providing an average of 8.5 hours of help per week for their hosts.

Learn more about homesharing and the screening and matching process at www.HomeShareVermont.org or by calling (802) 863-5625.

Farmer Resources

• Growers and producers! Make sure your Local Food and Farm Guide directory listing is up to date. You should have received an email from us with your current listing in the last week. Please get in touch ASAP if you have any edits. Or expect a phone call from us soon!
• Applications for NOFA-VT’s Farmer Resilience Grants are open through 1/26

Throughout the Year, Buy Local

ACORN's Online Market is loaded with meat, dairy, winter storage crops and more!

• January 20: Grassroots Advocacy Workshop with NOFA-VT
• January 27: Community Sing and dessert potluck at Otter Creek Yoga in Middlebury, 7-9pm
• January 31: Winter Chef's Table at the Farmstand Cafe featuring Golden Rule Mead - tix close 1/28
• February 14: NOFA-VT's Winter Gathering. Join farmers, gardeners, and others who care about a better food system to share knowledge and sow the seeds of a more just and resilient future. ACORN will have a table in the Exhibitor's Hall- come say hi! Lindsey will also be presenting with Grace Oedel and Joanna Colwell on the topic of Mutual Aid from 2:15 pm - 3:30 pm.

We are so grateful to be in community with you.

Cheers to another year of weaving this network together,

Lindsey, Jess, Abby, Alexandre, Alyssa and the ACORN Board

FINAL SHOUT OUT

We think food hubs are pretty great, and we're not alone. Check out these findings from the 2025 National Food Hub Survey.

info@acornvt.org / www.acornvt.org