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Climate Action at the Dairy: Silvopasture

Within our pasture-based dairy system, we are pursuing climate mitigation strategies that will help us achieve “net zero” carbon status organization-wide by 2028. One strategy: silvopasture.

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Supporting Climate and Food Justice

Watch this webinar, which explores the intersection of climate and food and offers answers to the question: How can we support youth who are grappling with these massive issues?

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New trees help renew an earlier landscape

This season, we planted 89 new trees along our the roads of our farm campus. They're all part of our landscape renewal plan.

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Park for Every Classroom Program Expands Nationwide

In partnership with the National Park Service, Shelburne Farms expands program to engage eight national parks in equity-centered climate change education.

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Maple Sugaring as the Climate Changes

What does sugaring in a changing climate look like? For us, right now, it looks like... just sugaring. But that’s not to say all is healthy in the woods. 

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Farming in a Changing Climate

In response to climate change, we’re dialing in our practices to manage the micro-environment around the plants. Then we build resilience in the whole system through soil health.

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Student Q+A: What's Happening in the Solar Orchard?

Students explored renewable energy on the Farm and beyond. Find out what they asked (and learned) during their field trip.

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Mowing Update: Reducing Our Carbon "Lawn"-print

With lawn mowing season upon us, we want to report that our 2020 reduced-mowing plan cut our lawn acres by a third, and our mowing hours by nearly half, reducing our carbon footprint. What about 2021?

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Climate Change Education to Address Intergenerational Injustice

When educating for climate change, the actions of adults and community members outside the classroom speak volumes to students. Climate change solutions can't simply fall to "the next generation."

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1611 Harbor Road Shelburne, Vermont 05482 

Telephone: 802-985-8686

An education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future through its programs, place, and products. Home to the Institute for Sustainable Schools, our historic campus is a 1,400-acre diversified farm located on the homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.

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