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What’s Your Connection? Intervale Community Farm (ICF) Interview with: Andy Jones, Farm Manager, and Becky Maden, Assistant Farm Manager IC: What does the Intervale mean to you? Andy: Well, I’ve spent the better part of my adult life in the Intervale, so it means many things to me. As a whole, I think: What a [...]

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Movie Night at Main Street Landing — free and open to the public! Seats are first come, first serve.  Tuesday nights at 7 p.m. Donations accepted at the front door. All proceeds will benefit the Intervale Center.  We are happy to announce that we are the beneficiary nonprofit for Movies at Main Street Landing in [...]

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By Alisha Laramee, Project Coordinator, New Farms for New Americans New Farms for New Americans is not just a farm. We are a community of people who have been resettled in Vermont because we had to flee our home countries due to violence, religious and/or political persecution. Many of us were farmers in our own [...]

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I love the Intervale. I work at the Intervale Center and take a walk along Intervale Road almost every day.  My house even overlooks the marshes at the northern edge of the Intervale; from our living room window, you can sometimes catch glimpses of the Winooski River’s glittering curves. I love this place for what [...]

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In honor of our 25th anniversary year sustaining farms, land and people, we’re featuring a series of Intervale-themed profiles called “What’s Your Connection?” Julie Rubaud Owner, Red Wagon Plants, Hinesburg, Vermont What does the Intervale mean to you? Youthful, bounteous energy. Young people. Abundance. Where does your Intervale story begin? I first learned of the [...]

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Spring means harvest time at the Intervale Center! While it’s too early for vegetables, we’re busy harvesting native trees. The Intervale Conservation Nursery grows and plants native trees for restoration projects along streams and rivers in Vermont. This month, we will harvest over 20,000 trees to be planted along Vermont’s watersheds to protect water quality, [...]

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What We Do The Winooski Valley Park District’s mission is to plan, acquire, and manage lands and waters in the Winooski River Valley for conservation, preservation of natural areas, establishment of parks, and resource-based education and recreation. The WVPD’s member towns are Burlington, Colchester, Essex, Jericho, South Burlington, Williston, and Winooski. Natural areas managed by [...]

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This week, Intervale Conservation Nursery staff, Mike and Seth, along with numerous interns and dedicated volunteers, are hard at work in the greenhouse starting hardwood cuttings (from the ICN growing fields in the Intervale) of black willow, elderberry, silky dogwood, shrub willow and red osier dogwood. These native shrubs and trees will eventually be planted [...]

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Summer will be here before we know it, and it’s not too late to sign up for a season of bountiful food from an Intervale farm! The following farms all have limited CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) shares still available.  Contact each farm directly to sign up. What is CSA and why participate? CSA is a [...]

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