Meet the Maple Sugarmaker: Baird Farm
Is there anything more Vermont than making maple syrup? We all look forward to those warmer winter days and cold nights because we know the maple sap will be running. The history, the ...
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Vermont Distilleries Make Hand Sanitizer to Fight COVID-19
Vermont’s distilleries are well known for their award-winning spirits, but as the state fights the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re switching gears and producing hand sanitizer instead. Smugglers’ ...
New Chapter’s Impact on Local Food Systems
New Chapter®, a Brattleboro-based wellness company, is leaving a lasting impact on the local food systems by being Food Connects highest-level corporate sponsor. New Chapter’s® donations in 2019 ...
Vermont certified B Corps: Using business as a force for good
Vermont has long been an incubator of innovative companies whose mission and impact are central to their business models.
Today, our state is at the forefront of a national wave of socially ...
Vermont Violins awarded workforce development grant
Vermont Violins is the most recent small Vermont business to have been approved for a workforce training grant from the Vermont Training Program (VTP).
Vermont Violins is expanding in-house ...
Vermont Creamery grows with help of VTP grant
Vermont Creamery, makers of fresh and aged goat cheeses, cultured butter, and crème fraiche, has been granted more than $65,000 in Vermont Training Program (VTP) funding. The funding will support
Vermont Smoke & Cure awarded Vermont Training Program grant
Vermont Smoke & Cure, a Hinesburg-based maker of smoked meats and meat snacks in Vermont since 1962, was granted more than $15,000 in Vermont Training Program (VTP) funding. Vermont Smoke ...
Vermont Coffee Company workforce training supported by state grant
Vermont Coffee Company was recently awarded $20,000 in training funds from the Vermont Department of Economic Development’s Vermont Training Program. Vermont Coffee Company collaborated with ...
Entrepreneurial success in Vermont takes many forms
Scrappy, motivated, innovative, even desperate. These are words that can describe most small business owners as they pursue their dreams along with success. Recently Vermont Public Radio aired a ...