🌀 Another cycle complete! 🌀

The 14th edition of our Champlain Valley Local Food and Farm Guide is out! Find this beauty in this week's Addison Independent, Brandon Reporter or The Hinesburg Record, and at grocery, hardware and garden stores, restaurants, cafes, libraries and events throughout the spring and summer. This is your resource to find and shop directly from our 250+ wonderful local farms! A huge thanks to all of the writers who contributed, and to the amazing team at The Addison Independent who make this project come to life.

🫣 Our brand new Sprinter van, Rhonda Burgundy, is freshly kitted out with a refrigerator (or, "reefer unit," for those who like industry slang) and branding! Here are two very happy ACORNs who have realized their dream of a local food aggregation, storage and delivery service in the Champlain Valley! 🥲

🥬 Salad + Ice Cream = My Favorite Kind of Dinner 🍨

Spring has sprung, y'all!

Every week we are listing cases of baby bok choi, Organic salad greens, mizuna, spinach, hakurei turnips, scallions... not to mention gorgeous herbs! Cilantro, dill and parsley have made their debuts and are begging to brighten up your plates.

We are also SO STOKED TO ANNOUNCE STRAFFORD CREAMERY ICE CREAM IS NOW ON THE MARKET! 🥳 If you have yet to try this single source ice cream, you have no excuses!

The market is open every Friday 12pm - Monday 10am.

Thank you for buying local, and for recommending us to your neighbors and friends. We offer delivery service to select locations. Inquire if we serve your area. $100 order minimum applies to delivery orders.

🚨 We're Hiring a Food Hub Coordinator 🚨

This brand new ECO Americorps Service Member position is a unique hybrid role that will work with both the ACORN Food Hub and CVOEO’s Feeding Champlain Valley. The Food Hub Coordinator will assist in developing the multipurpose food hub in Addison County. This position will serve from September 2024 - August 2025. Read the description here and email Dustin.Bowman@vermont.gov if you'd like to learn more. 

Volunteer at our FOURTH Working Bee

Our first three Working Bees have been a blast! We've met so many new people, learned a lot about ag and climate, and have eaten so much amazing fresh, farm to table food.

Join us this Sunday, May 5, for a Working Bee at Stone's Throw Farmstead in Shrewsbury from 10am-2pm. Join Jess and Connor for planting a diversity of cut flowers, sheep shearing, and wool skirting! A taco lunch will be provided. We recommend wearing layers and bringing work gloves. Please RSVP by emailing Lilah so we have an accurate head count for lunch!

Our final Working Bee of the season will be at Frog Hollow Farmstead in Hubbardton on May 19! Help Janis and Jason prep their high tunnel. Tasks include moving top soil, spreading compost, and making rows. Lunch provided!

Veggie, Flower + Berry CSA Sign-Ups are Open! (New Additions)

Green & Gold (Sudbury)

Sweet Roots Farm (Charlotte)

Last Resort Farm (Monkton)

Trillium Hill Farm (Hinesburg)

Stone's Throw Farmstead's Flower Share (Shrewsbury)

Wood's Market Garden (Brandon)

Four Blooms Farm Bouquet CSA (Bristol)

Lower Notch Farm (Bristol)

You can also use NOFA-VT's online CSA directory.

Attention Producers! New Middlebury Market!

There's a new market in town! Our friends at Better Middlebury Partnership are launching a second day of their bustling Midd Summer Market on Saturday mornings (in addition to their mid-week market, which will be Wednesday evenings this year). Please find the application for vendors here. 

🍳 Throughout the Year, Buy Local 🍳

ACORN's Online Market now has eggs from Cutting Hill Beef Farm in Cornwall!

Local eggs from happy chickens!

• May 4: Wood's Market Garden Farmstand Opens
• May 4: Turn-out Day at Larsen Farm
• May 5: ACORN Working Bee at Stone's Throw Farmstead
• May 19: ACORN Working Bee at Frog Hollow Farmstead
• June 8: Very Berry Weekend at Red Wagon Plants, Hinesburg
• August 2: We the Land! A Gathering For Indigenous, Black, Latinx, Asian, SWANA & PoC Earth Workers, Land Stewards & Farmers
• September 15! The 2024 Tour de Farms in Shoreham and Orwell

Glad to be in community together.

Cheers to spring sunshine! ☀️

Lindsey, Jess, Lilah and the ACORN Board

FINAL SHOUT OUT 🏆

Kudos to Champlain Orchards, Frog Hollow Farmstead and Aqua ViTea for winning 2024 Good Food Awards!

info@acornvt.org / www.acornvt.org