🍓☀️🍓 One benefit of the recent heatwave: Strawberries have arrived early! Adam's Berry Farm and Full Belly Farm have announced their strawberries are now at their farm stands. Check the 2023 Local Food and Farm Guide to find berry producers near you! 🍓☀️🍓

Lettuce mixes, spring greens, flower bouquets and eggs are on the market!

A Big Thanks to our Featured Buyer of the Month: Farm Stands!

Head Over Fields, Wood's Market Garden and Adam's Berry Farm have all purchased from the ACORN Online Market this month to stock their farm stands.

🤩 This is our dream come true: farmers buying from other farmers with the ease of a one-stop shop! Be sure to stop in often at your local farm stands which have become local food hubs in their towns. (LPT: the 2023 Local Food and Farm Guide has an index on the back page that lists out all the farm stands).

New Producers Alert!

You can now buy in bulk/ wholesale quantities on our Online Wholesale Market from these recently added producers:

We want to extend a big thank you to Addison Allies, the chefs of Viva el Sabor, the staff at 51 Main St, and the Middlebury College environmental studies seniors who helped us pull off a last-minute end of semester celebration!

Addison Allies and ACORN collaborated with a group of 8 Middlebury students on a senior capstone project that researched the continued development of the ACORN Food Hub and potential commercial community kitchen.

We decided (three weeks before the end of the semester) to host an event to connect the students' research with our wider community so we can begin to build community support for this growing project. You all turned out in spades, with over 120 folks registering and just under 100 attending, and for that, we thank YOU as well!

We plan to continue hosting events like these to keep you all informed of our progress and to make sure we're on track to creating an inclusive space that best serves our whole community. Stay tuned!

To learn more about the project, read Aria and Louisa's op-ed in the Addy Indy here.

We are excited to announce our 13th Annual Local Food and Farm Guide, an award-winning collaboration between ACORN and the Addison Independent, is now out in the world!

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 June 17.

The ACORN Food Hub in Middlebury is offering storage services for farmers and food producers this growing season. Plan to grow more, store more, and sell more product this year! We offer refrigerated, frozen, and temperature controlled dry storage in our centrally located facility at 616 Exchange Street, Middlebury.

Did your crops suffer from last week's frost? The Agency of Ag wants to know!

Vermont Open Farm Week 2023 is back for the 9th year! August 6 - 13, 2023

🌎 Climate Matters: Food justice and climate resiliency (Addy Indy)

🏆 Maple and Soul in Rochester, American Flatbread - Middlebury Hearth, Lucky Star Catering, Middlebury Natural Foods Co-op and The Tillerman

earned the 2023 Gold Barn Award from Vermont Fresh Network for featuring local food on their menus!

💵 Food Prices Are Still High. What Role Do Corporate Profits Play?

✊ Procuring Food Justice: Grassroots Solutions for Reclaiming our Public Supply Chains

👩🏻‍🌾 Check out Rural Vermont's 2022 Impact Report

🎧 Listen to the podcast miniseries A journey through feminist agroecology

👩🏻‍💻Check out Whiteness at Work training modules

🗞 Read ‘They just need land’: young farmers struggle to find affordable acreage (The Guardian)

💻 Watch the Decolonizing the Food System webinar

🏳️‍🌈 It is more important than ever to support local and regional queer-owned businesses this month, and all year long. Some ideas to get you started: 🏳️‍🌈

Happy early summer BBQs, campfires and icy river swims!

Cheers,

Lindsey, Jess and the ACORN Board