Lt. Governor Zuckerman was joined by Representative Carolyn Partridge, Chair of the House Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, Senator Anthony Pollina, member of the Senate Committee on Agriculture and Graham Unangst-Rufenach, Policy Director for Rural Vermont for a conversation on agriculture, forestry and Vermont’s Working Lands economy. Topics included CARES fund allocations to support the dairy, forest and non-dairy processor programs; the importance of our working lands economy and what is needed to expand it; what a regional food supply system might look like and how it would help Vermont and Vermonter;, and the future of the agriculture and farms in Vermont.
