Cultivating Connections
June 2023
☀️🍦 Find Your Favorite Creemee with the VAAFM Creemee Locator! 🍦☀️
The ACORN Team is Growing!
We are beyond excited to welcome Lilah Krugman (far right) to the ACORN team as our new Outreach and Programs Coordinator! Lilah worked as an intern with ACORN for two years prior to graduating in May from UVM with an honors degree in Food Systems. Marlow Saucier (far left), a Middlebury College rising senior studying Environmental Justice, also joins the ACORN team as our Summer 2023 Intern. Please join me in welcoming Lilah and Marlow!
Tomatoes, summer squash, lettuce heads, cinnamon buns, flower bouquets, eggs and MORE are on the market!
A Big Thanks to our Featured Buyer of the Month: Essex Food Hub!
👏 We're selling hub to hub! 👏

Essex Food Hub, a food hub located just across the lake in Essex, NY, is now a regular customer of the ACORN online market.

Strengthening the regional food hub network is one of the easiest ways we can increase local food access and sales, circumventing the conventional food distribution system which doesn't work for small scale producers. Kudos and gratitude to the team at the Essex Food Hub for bringing Vermont grown products to a wider audience in New York.
New Producers Alert!

You can now buy in bulk/ wholesale quantities on our Online Wholesale Market from these recently added producers:
Tour de Farms: Less than 200 tix left!
This year's Tour is Sunday, September 17 in Shoreham. We are limiting tickets to 500 riders, and we did sell out last year! Ride and enjoy the best that Vermont has to offer, from glorious scenery to delicious samples of foods that are grown or produced here in Addison County, Vermont. Choose the longer 30-mile ride or a family-friendly 10-mile route each with farm stops along the way and meet the wonderful people who produce the food and goods you enjoy throughout the year.

This is ACORN's largest fundraiser and supports our programs such as the ACORN Food Hub and Farmacy: Food is Medicine program.

Register early to save money! Ticket prices increase August 19.
Two ACORN Surveys for Farmers!
ACORN is looking for feedback from farmers and producers:


2. Are you interested in participating in a Land Acknowledgment Workshop later this year?

Please let us know by Friday, July 8. Thank you for your time and consideration.
Farmer + Food Producer Resources
The ACORN Food Hub in Middlebury is offering delivery, cold and dry storage services for farmers and food producers. Contact Jess for more details: Jessica@acornvt.org

Larson Farm and Creamery in Wells has a Grade A creamery and offering to co-pack yogurt for other farmers for them to sell, add to their own dairy product offerings. Contact Rich Larson, 802.884.5288
News + Events We're Following
☝️ FSNE Network Leadership Institute-- Application Period Closes 6/30!

👩🏻‍🌾 We are LOVING the realness in various farms' seasonal newsletters! For behind the scenes reporting, the highs and lows of growing food, what's happening in fields and greenhouses, sign up for newsletters from:

🚚 Can New England feed itself? Getting to 30% regional food consumption by 2030.

🌳 Valley Clayplain Forest Farm in New Haven: Permaculture-inspired agroforestry, also see the Vermont Agroforestry Storymap

🥂 Champlain Orchards now has a cider garden!

📰 V Smiley Preserves made The NY Times!

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FINAL SHOUT OUT
SUSU CommUNITY Farm needs financial resources to continue building the farm and deepening their programs, this year and beyond. You are invited to join their network of generous resource mobilizers and invest in the commUNITY right now. Wile you're in a generous mood, check out and support the Milkweed Home Pilot Project!
Here's to abundant gardens swarming with pollinators, ice cold creemees on thick, humid days and long, dreamy summer nights filled with fireflies and crickets. ✨

Happy summer!
Lindsey, Jess, Lilah, Marlow and the ACORN Board