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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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UN Sustainable Development Goals

Unpacking Education for Sustainability: Webinar Recording

How can you build education for sustainability into your practice as an educator? Hear from Shelburne Farms and University of Vermont Tarrant Institute educators.

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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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Maple Career Development in Vermont

Vermont educators work to teach students all aspects of the sugaring industry and share career opportunities in the field.

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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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The Successful, Sustainable Middle School

Education for Sustainability nurtures the development of community members engaged in creating sustainable and democratic communities.

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Bernie Severance: a lifetime dedication to the Breeding Barn

Shelburne Farms remembers Bernie Severance, and celebrates the amazing legacy he left behind: a beautiful scaled replica of the enormous Breeding Barn.

Educators! Learn with us this Summer

Our summer programs prepare PK-12 educators to facilitate learning experiences for students using a lens of sustainability. You and your students can be changemakers for a more healthy and just future!

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From Field to Curbside: 2021 Market Garden Plans

Learn how we're expanding and fine-tuning our Market Garden plans as we look ahead into 2021.

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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)