Origins of Food

27/01/2021

Thanks Brandon Library and Olivias Croutons for inspiring us to bake chocolate cake today. I was also inspired by our local mitten wearing hero!

08/01/2021

Our dear friends at Imap Guatemala are fundraising for their "500 Healthy Kids" initiave, which will help give protein-rich amaranth drinks to families with children affected by the pandemic. Please take a look at the video on their GoFundMe page to learn more about this amazing grassroots program, donate what you can, and spread the word!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/qzzbwc-healthy-kids?fbclid=IwAR0sEQUffJxqP3unkShZplKKj4Cgroww_Cd9_igwD76F-QEap3kSOe00e-s

COVID-19’s impact on Guatemala has been profound and devastating. Most disheartening is the fact tha… Myriam Legault needs your support for 500 Healthy Kids

11/11/2020

A friend and Board Member and I started a series of one-on-one farm visits around the Champlain Valley to deepen our connection to our local farmers and food producers, hear how COVID has affected their markets, and understand how ACORN can best serve them in the future. 👩🏻‍🌾

Here, we’re feeding garden veggies to some very fluffy sheep (and an Angora goat!) who enjoy some of the most beautiful views of Bridport and western Addison County at Alissa and her daughter make artisan fresh and aged sheep and cow’s milk cheese, sheep’s milk gelato (great for lactose intolerance, and in fun flavors like cardamom pistachio and sticky date pudding), and gorgeous fiber. When I asked if she’s pulled more towards making cheese or the fiber arts, Alissa joked she’s a cheesemaker by profession, but a “fiberaholic” by hobby. 👩🏻‍🌾🐑🧀

Fairy tale farm cheese (and possibly the gelato, which is season dependent), is available at , and through their website. 👩🏻‍🌾

07/11/2020

Today is a GREAT day; out with the fascist and in with a hot tub. Four years of anxiety + stress held in my shoulders and jaw and neck can start melting away. Looking forward to winter, especially 1.20.21, SO HARD. ✊❄️ 🎉

21/10/2020

Vermont friends, check out this new Farm Walks intiative! Stretch your legs while visiting some of our state's gorgeous working farms. https://www.diginvt.com/blog/farm-walks-farmer-participation/ DigInVT

Vermont Farm Walk Network - Farmer Participation The Farm Walk Trail network is a collaborative initiative of food, farming and agritourism organizations to create a directory of walking trails on farms across Vermont. Farm walks offer Vermonters a healthy and safe place to be outside, engage with t...

20/10/2020

The Agitators: play about abolitionists, staged on a (rare) Black family owned farm.

We really enjoyed watching an outside reading of The Agitators, a play by Mat Smart, on the fields of

This super engaging play weaves the story of the 45 year friendship between American icons Susan B. Anthony and Frederick Douglass.

Set primarily in 19th Century Rochester, NY, many of the conversations, not-always-friendly debates and pointed philosophizing of political strategy to achieve race and gender and equality still ring true today, 130 years later. Even the land we watched it on was relevant- Clemmons Family Farm is one of only 17 Black-owned farms in Vermont, out of about 2,500 farms! This speaks to the wider disparity of Black-owned farmland in this country... which adds up to a mere 0.4% of the U.S.’s total farmland. So much “progress” still needs to be made.

This play also made me realize how much I don’t know about a crazy important period of American history, and I left feeling inspired to keep on agitating. 📣

20/10/2020

🍎Apple picking time is one of the best times. 🔮 In my near future I predict: apple pie, apple cider, apple cake, apple cinnamon oatmeal... and lots of fresh, crispy apple snacking. 🍎

17/10/2020

Get out the vote! Voting is democracy in action; make your voice heard!

12/10/2020

✨Celebrate Indigenous People’s Day! ✨ Especially honoring all of the indigenous womxn who have stewarded this land, and continue to care for this land, for the last 10,000 years, or more. They are still here, many working to ensure their traditional plant medicines, foods and culture persevere despite 400 years of patriarchal colonization and exploitative globalization. ✨

✨Acknowledge the land you’re occupying, and please make sure this isn’t the *only* day Indigenous people are celebrated and recognized. ✨

✨Are you familiar with the indigenous groups who previously lived (and may still live) where you now call home? Are you acknowledging the original people of the land in public spaces, private meetings? Do you recognize unceded territories and broken treaties? Have you read any books, or listened to any podcasts, by indigenous people? Have you considered offering any of your wealth privilege as reparations? ✨

✨All photos were taken with permission, from the Quechua and Tz’utujil people we know, in Chincheros and Ccatcca, Peru and San Juan la Laguna, Guatemala, respectively. ✨

09/10/2020

Once a model, always a model. No one like my mama to pose for seasonal photos for a local food newsletter! 💁🏻‍♀️ Go out and support your local pumpkin grower (if you haven’t grown your own this year). This year was a bumper crop for some folks! 🎃

09/10/2020

One of our local apple orchards could use help taking care of s group of their migrant farm workers who contracted COVID. As many of us know, front line food workers are some of the most at risk of getting sick, and have the least access to healthcare or any kind of "safety net." These men are away from their homes and families, growing food for our country. Please help out if you can.

Thank you for all the kind words and support that we have received over the past few days. It is truly humbling to see our communities rally around us during these difficult times. This community support is part of what makes Vermont so special; we’re honored and inspired to be a part of it. As y...

07/10/2020

We said farewell to our beloved Ravioli, the 1997 RAV4 we bought from a Florida surfer dude on his way to Bali back in 2015. She had 97k miles. 🚗 We drove Ravi up and down both coasts of the U.S. and across the country both ways. She scaled the Rockies and plowed through blazing hot deserts many times. She went up and down the Pacific Coast Highway and took us through “the loneliest road in America.” She’s been to all four corners of the continental U.S and served us our portable home for quite some time. Although she has her quirks, she never broke down. 😅 Swipe through to see some of our favorite memories with this badass champ of a car. She gave us the freedom to travel and live an alternate lifestyle for years, and we’ve got so much gratitude for her. The farewell is quite bittersweet. 😢 Our friend’s 16 year old son is scoring a sweet little ride we hope will bring him as much joy as she brought us. 💜