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Hawai'i and Vermont, Place-Based Partners

Educators, including Shelburne Farms staff, from these two very different places are, in fact, partners in place-based research and shared learning.

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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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New Wildlife Tracker Supports Community Science

A new Motus radiotelemetry tracking station has been installed at the dairy. It's a great way for us to support wildlife research at the farm and beyond.

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Going to Bat for Bats

The Farm's long-term effort to provide for embattled little brown bats (but keep them out of the Inn!) is bearing fruit — and bats!

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Experimenting with Wool as a Nitrogen Source for Farming

Our Market Garden is testing the effectiveness of sheep wool pellets as a nitrogen fertilizer, which could be an important value-added product for farmers raising sheep.

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The future of our Farm forests

Why a new forest management plan must be open and adaptive to the changes we are seeing around us.

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Firefly Research at Shelburne Farms

​​​​​​​A Q&A with Dr. Sarah Lower, Assistant Professor of Biology, Bucknell University

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United Nations University Recognizes Innovative Education Project

Cultivating Pathways to Sustainability, an educational initiative of two teachers and Shelburne Farms, was recently recognized as a “Flagship Project” by the United Nations for its contributions to Quality Education, one of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

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Phenology and Climate at the Farm

A new series of monitoring stations along the Lone Tree Hill Trail will help us track and teach about climate change at a micro-level, through the study of plant phenology.

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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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