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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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A Summer On, Not Off

Highlights from our 2023 programs for educators.

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Getting REAL: A Framework for Climate Change Education

Climate change education specialist Joan Haley writes about the best practices of equity-centered climate change education—and shares hopeful stories of the educators and learners already doing this work in our region.

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Sharing a Love of Food to Foster Community

Laura Butler's commitment to building community among her families and children is a central theme of her farm to early childhood program.

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Education for Sustainability Highlighted on "Across the Fence"

Teacher Julie Norman and Shelburne Farms Institute for Sustainable Schools' Aimee Arandia Østensen talk about the possibilities of education for sustainability with Across the Fence.

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Leading in Schools, With Lessons from the Land

A snapshot of our 2022–23 Leadership Academy.

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Vermont’s Farm to School Program is Adapted Across the Country

We're expanding our farm to school professional learning program nationwide, hosting teams from Kansas, Louisiana, Pennsylvania, Minnesota, and Rhode Island.

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Oyster Reefs as a Climate Change Adaptation

This and other work from educators in our 2022–23 Climate Resiliency Fellowship.

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Enriching Lives: Animal and Human

UVM student and farmyard educator Catherine Ziac tackles the question of how animal enrichment might affect the welfare of our education animals and their human interactions.

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A Campus for Learning, Winter 2023

Students, educators, and families are exploring our snow-covered campus for learning this winter—here are a few highlights from the past months.

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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)