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It has been fun to see this project unfold and to see the concepts we talked about last summer come to life. -- Alyson Bull, teacher, Springfield, VT Although the Park Street School in Springfield, Vermont is closing its doors, teacher Alyson Bull and her 4th graders are saving its history. It's a project that was "inspired and developed at Shelburne Farms' course last summer" said Alyson (Principles and Promising Practices of Place-based Education). "We have
interviewed (and videotaped) over 40 people who have attended the school and are making a film about the school's history."
With the help of Vermont poet, Verandah Porsche, students are also writing poetry based on the interviews and their own school memories. It's great to be inspiring teachers who are changing how their students think about and care for their home-places. Listen to VPR's interview with Alyson here, or find out about all of our summer professional development opportunities for educators here.
VT FEED is sponsoring several screenings of the film FRESH (72 minutes) at Merrill’s Roxy Cinema in Burlington. The last ones are:
FRESH celebrates the farmers, thinkers and business people across America who are re-inventing our food system and offering a practical vision for a future of our food and our planet. Ticket prices range from $4.00 to $8.75, depending on the day and time of the screening. For more information, please phone Merrill’s Roxy Cinema at (802) 864-4742, located on the corner of College Street and South Winooski Avenue. Tickets can be purchased on the FRESH website or at the box office of Merrill’s Roxy Cinema. VT FEED is a partnership of Shelburne Farms, Food Works at Two Rivers Center, and NOFA-VT. Cheddar is a verb, a noun, and a state of mind By John Louchheim. He and his wife attended our "Cheddar is a Verb" program in April, and wrote to us soon thereafter. I still find myself smiling from learning first-hand why “Cheddar is a Verb.” The day made it so clear how your cheese-making is so beautifully aligned with the Shelburne Farms mission: sustainable economically and agriculturally, producing a very high-quality product, wholesome, intelligently done, and full of the honesty that comes from hard work and from giving a darn all up and down the line and the food chain. What great fortune it was that half of that 7,208 lbs of milk for our “make” happened to be the first pasture-fed milk of 2010. Over 800 lbs of springtime cheddar in Shelburne: captured, cultured, fermented, cut, cheddared, shredded, hooped, pressed, and now aging in your safekeeping. And we helped! Cheddar cheese will never be the same for us. We feel very lucky.
By Jen Cirillo, Director of Professional Development In April, I returned to Puerto Plata in the Dominican Republic for a 4-day teacher training using the Healthy Neighborhoods/Healthy Kids (HN/HK) or Barrios Saludables/Ninos Sanos framework developed by Shelburne Farms. Colleen Cowell from Champlain Elementary School (the pilot school of Shelburne Farm's Sustainable School Project) joined me. Many of the same teachers we worked with three years ago returned for the training and brought along new colleagues. One highlight was teaching in nine elementary school classrooms. In one day, Colleen and I taught a lesson called "Quality of Life" to 450 children and their teachers. Schools in the DR are similar in many cases to US urban schools -- large classes (40+ students per class), little to no teacher support or professional development, few materials, an overcrowded curriculum, and overcrowded classrooms. Despite this, we found the two pilot schools are successfully implementing projects that engage young people in the civic life of their community. With the support of Vermont Institute on the Caribbean, Andres, a wonderful Peace Corps volunteer and Moreno, a community organizer we know the students and their teachers are creating a better quality of life for all. In the months to come we'll be creating a virtual network of all of the schools around the world implementing HN/HK to share stories, adapt and evolve the program, and support the growing community of young civic leaders. Painting a cow
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Remembering a school... learning about home 
Come see the film "FRESH" 
In the Dominican Republic
Inspired by their experiences at Shelburne Farms and the themes of their magnet school, students of the
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Shelburne Farms cultivates a conservation ethic by teaching and demonstrating the stewardship of natural and agricultural resources.
We are a nonprofit environmental education center, 1,400-acre working farm, and National Historic Landmark.