Vermont Harvest of the Month Resources for Farmers

Use Vermont Harvest of the Month (VTHOM) original artwork, recipes, and activities to promote your farm. With a featured harvest each month, VTHOM materials provide ways to showcase the seasonality of your farm, highlight your products, and provide inspiration for your customers. Send home recipes with your CSA, use shelf tags at your farm store, or conduct taste tests. With VTHOM resources, it easy to promote your farm as the source for local, seasonal, and healthy eating!​

Great Ways to Participate: 

How you utilize VTHOM materials is up to you. With our resources, you can: 

  • Sign the Pledge and receive a monthly newsletter

  • Host on-farm community meals and highlight the featured VTHOM product.

  • Provide your customers with recipes & activity fliers

  • Use our retailer shelf tags in your farm stand
    Conduct taste tests at your farm stand, farmers market, or storefront

    Give farm tours to local school groups
    Share the harvest with us on Facebook or Instagram. 

Use VTHOM Tools to Get Started:

Access all the materials you need to promote local, seasonal eating from your farm. Download free resources including:

  • Recipe cards

  • Retailer shelf tags

  • Home flier for customers with activities, storage tips, and fun facts for each VTHOM product

  • Archived materials for past VTHOM crops

Expand to New Markets:

Contact your distributor and ask for local options.

  • Explore the local food procurement resource guide below

  • Connect to new distributors

  • Make sure you are listed in all local resource guides

Contact any of these programs for more information on local produce delivery in your area:

ADDISON COUNTY

Addison County Relocalization Network - A nonprofit that provides grower outreach, farm-to-school programming, and produces an annual Addison County Local Food and Farm Guide.

NORTHEAST KINGDOM

Green Mountain Farm-to-School - A nonprofit providing farm-to-school programming, a regional food hub, and coordination of the statewide Vermont Harvest of the Month Campaign.

RUTLAND COUNTY

Rutland Area Food and Farm Link - A nonprofit that provides and oversees an annual Locally Grown guide, food and cooking education, a regional food hub, and farm business development.

WINDHAM COUNTY

Food Connects - A source for finding local produce markets, farm-to-school information, and local food hubs. Windham Farm and Food www.HarvestToMarket.com A regional food hub project of Food Connects.

STATEWIDE:

NOFA VT - A statewide nonprofit providing assistance and education for farmers and organizations, community food access, farm-to-school and farm-to-institution support, and a directory of local and organic markets.

VT Farm to Plate, Food Systems Atlas - A searchable map for Vermont people, places, and resources in Vermont’s food system.

VT Feed - A program of NOFA VT, VT Feed provides statewide farm-to-school programming.