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	<title>Valley Futures &#187; Agriculture</title>
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		<title>MRV Talk &#124; Andrew Meyer on Hardwick &amp; Agr. Economy &#124; 2/10</title>
		<link>http://valleyfutures.net/2010/02/02/mrv-talk-andrew-meyer-on-hardwick-agr-economy-210/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 18:33:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[A Valley Futures Network Task Team has been formed to look at the question: would a local entrepreneurial Food and Agriculture Business Initiative work in the Valley and if so what might it look like? The Team is sponsoring some upcoming talks in the next months that bring in people from other towns that are [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Request for Projects &#124; Local Community Initiatives &#124; Fall 2010</title>
		<link>http://valleyfutures.net/2010/02/01/request-for-projects-local-community-initiatives-fall-2010/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2010 22:09:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Joshua Schwartz</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Based on the success of this past fall&#8217;s MRV focused UVM course, Local Community Initiatives, instructor Chip Sawyer is planning a second round in the fall of 2010. Now is the time to start planning the course, and more importantly, brainstorming potential projects.
The UVM course Local Community Initiatives is a service-learning course that allows undergraduate [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Happy Hunting Season, Mad River!</title>
		<link>http://valleyfutures.net/2009/11/15/happy-hunting-season-mad-river/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 15 Nov 2009 20:03:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Williams</dc:creator>
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Here&#8217;s a good luck at the very first deer to be weighed at the Village Grocery in downtown Waitsfield. A beaut &#8211; shot up near the Moretown Common road. Be safe out there, everyone, and happy hunting!
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		<title>Numen: The Magical Nature of Plants (FILM REVIEW)</title>
		<link>http://valleyfutures.net/2009/10/07/numen-the-magical-nature-of-plants-film-review/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Oct 2009 14:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;NUMEN&#8221; FILM SCREENING!: Montpelier&#8217;s SAVOY at 7:00 on Saturday, October 10 and Sunday, October 11.
I have sat through many “talking head” documentaries in my years as a film reviewer, but never before have I found so much to laugh, cry and think about as when I screened “Numen: The Nature of Plants&#8221; for the first [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FILM REVIEW: Food, Inc. &#8211; What&#8217;s Cooking in America&#8217;s Kitchen?</title>
		<link>http://valleyfutures.net/2009/08/24/film-review-food-inc-whats-cooking-in-americas-kitchen/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 24 Aug 2009 14:31:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Williams</dc:creator>
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Where does what we eat come from?
This seems like it ought to be an easy question to answer.
Not so, in this day and age, according to a new documentary film called Food, Inc.
“The way we eat has changed more in the past 50 years than in the last 10,000 years,” explains the film’s introduction, “but [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Organic Bulk OATS Order Deadline</title>
		<link>http://valleyfutures.net/2009/07/01/organic-bulk-oats-order-deadline/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:30:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin McDermott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Time is running out to get in on our semi-annual Quebec Oat Order.  The next order will not be until early winter!  $22 for a 25 pound bag.  Pick up in Addison County, Essex, Waitsfield or Montpelier.  To learn more and to order go to:  http://www.vermontlocalvore.org/foodsources/oats.html.
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		<title>July 4th Farmers&#8217; Market</title>
		<link>http://valleyfutures.net/2009/07/01/july-4th-farmers-market/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 17:29:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Robin McDermott</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hi Everyone!
I have been perplexed about how I was going to get to the Farmers&#8217; Market AND the parade this weekend.  Perhaps you are perplexed too??Robin McDermott
Mad River Valley Localvore Project
 
So, I checked with several of the farmers and here is what they have said about the market this coming weekend.
 
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Gaylord Farm:  We will be [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Root Cellaring: Why and How to Do It</title>
		<link>http://valleyfutures.net/2009/06/10/root-cellaring-why-and-how-to-do-it/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 10 Jun 2009 14:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Craig Goss</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Agriculture]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Richard Czaplinski generously shares knowledge from 30 years of homesteading. Produced as part of PocSun&#8217;s, (Post Carbon Sustainability Network), a two year project to encourage the building of individual and community root cellars in Central Vermont. Richard would like to thank Scott Sawyer for his fine work formatting and adding photographs.
Click here to download the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Celebrating the Round Barn &#8220;Tweet Up&#8221;!</title>
		<link>http://valleyfutures.net/2009/05/29/celebrating-the-round-barn-tweet-up/</link>
		<comments>http://valleyfutures.net/2009/05/29/celebrating-the-round-barn-tweet-up/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 May 2009 12:49:58 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the Twitterverse &#8211; some 140 character summaries of the Round Barn &#8220;Tweet Up&#8221; held last night. Thanks to Candace Page at the Burlington Free Press for her coverage, as well.
Signgal@roundbarnfarm Fantastic tweetup! I expected hors d oeuvres, you fed us dinner! With table linens and $1 ginger ales. Thank U!!!22 minutes ago from web
SigngalMet [...]]]></description>
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		<link>http://valleyfutures.net/2009/05/18/459/</link>
		<comments>http://valleyfutures.net/2009/05/18/459/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2009 14:43:46 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Rob Williams</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got Twitter? &#8211; Round Barn Chef Charlie Menard Hosts the Very First “Tweet Up” in Mad River Valley’s History
Ashton’s doing it.
Oprah’s doing it.
Britney’s doing it.
And more and more Vermonters are doing it.
The “it” in question is “Twitter,” of course, a new, popular and free Web 2.0 micro-blogging application that allows its users to build networks [...]]]></description>
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