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Campus & Buildings

Favorite Places On The Farm

We're excited to open for the 2025 season this weekend! To celebrate, we asked Shelburne Farms staff members to share their favorite places on our working farm campus.

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'Sage' Magazine Celebrates Place-Based Educators

Our own Aimee Arandia Østensen is among those featured in a zine showcasing stewards of Vermont.

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These Educators Are Growing Climate Resilience

Our 2024–25 Climate Resiliency Fellowship is underway; here’s what teachers are working on.

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Celebrating Our 2024 4-H Team

A behind-the-scenes look at the future farmers, aspiring veterinarians, and young animal lovers who help care for our herd.

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Montpelier's Soulful Soup: Uniting the School Community Through Food

Montpelier High School's inaugural Solon Soup for the Soul stands as a testament to the enduring power of collaboration, compassion, and the simple act of sharing a meal.

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Meet a Changemaker: Gerlisa Garrett, Stowe Middle School

Sixth grade language arts and science teacher Gerlisa Garrett has piloted a weeklong immersion in nature, helping students discover the past, present, and future of the land.

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What the Forest Can Teach Us

Highlights from A Forest for Every Classroom 2023-24.

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Farm to School Impact by the Numbers

We’re sharing a look back at some of our projects, collaborations, and campaigns that helped to propel the farm to school movement forward in 2023.

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Adapting the Model: Connecticut’s Statewide Farm to School Institute

As part of the 2023–24 Farm to School Institute Adaptation cohort, Connecticut reflects on their experience launching their first statewide Institute.

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What Our 2023 Summer Fellows Learned

This past summer, Shelburne Farms welcomed four fellows—college students from nearby Middlebury College and the University of Vermont—to our campus for learning. Here, 2023 fellows share their reflections on this experience.

 

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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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Shelburne Farms is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (Tax ID #03-0229347)