Vermont Food Security Roadmap Coalition
The Vermont Food Security Roadmap guides our way to a future when all Vermonters will be food secure. Vermont has the tools, knowledge, and resources to create food security and ensure that every person living here has the food they want and need to be healthy and nourished.
The Vermont Food Security Roadmap Coalition works to implement the Roadmap strategies.
The Coalition’s 2025 Roadmap Policy Slate is linked here. This year, in the Vermont State House, the Coalition has supported these efforts (end-of-session updates in bold):
- Fund the Vermont Foodbank’s appropriations request for $5,000,000.
- $500,000 for Vermonters Feeding Vermonters, $1,000,000 for network partners, both one-time funding in the budget
- Continue to support the Land Access and Opportunity Board so it can perform its statutory powers and duties for improving land and housing access among historically marginalized or disadvantaged communities.
- $1,631,582 base funding for the LAOB in the budget
- Appropriate $20,000,000 for farm emergency recovery and resilience.
- Farm Security Fund bill, S.60, passed by Senate, now onto House
- Convert $323,000 in one-time funding for Vermont 211 to base funding.
- Yes, the full amount was switched to base funding in the budget
- Increase public investment in Crop Cash (Plus) and Farm Share to $500,000 in base funding.
- $450,000 in one-time funding in the budget
- Pass legislation to implement the SNAP Restaurant Meals Program in VT, including staffing and local business prioritization.
- Bills introduced and sent to committee: S.42/H.151, testimony heard
- Expand and increase the accessibility of the Vermont Earned Income Tax Credit and the Vermont Child Tax Credit.
- Tax credits in S.51, passed by both chambers and in Conference Committee
2025 Coalition Member Organizations
• Feeding the Valley Alliance
• Vermont Land Access and Opportunity Board
• Hunger Free Vermont
• Vermont Foodbank
• Vermont Sustainable Jobs Fund
• Intervale Center
• NOFA-VT
The Coalition hopes to grow to include representatives from all sectors intersecting the Roadmap, including but not limited to: transportation, health care, housing, farming, business, government, education, and more. Is your organization interested in becoming part of the Food Security Roadmap Coalition? Join our mailing list below to get announcements – the Coalition is currently developing the process for bringing new organizations on.
Community-Based Roadmap Efforts
Vermont community input for the Roadmap resoundingly called for a new level of statewide communication and collaboration. The participation of local communities, and of people directly affected by specific implementation activities will be necessary to create equity and justice.
Vermont’s ten Food Security Networks, focused on local efforts in regions across the state, are one venue where towns and communities can collaborate in fulfillment of the Roadmap. Both individuals and organizations participate in the Food Security Networks. To find out more, and get involved in your local Food Security Network, visit Hunger Free Vermont’s website which includes contact information.
The Roadmap
Return to the Farm to Plate Vermont Food Security: Roadmap to 2035 home page or explore more Roadmap goals and objectives using the links below.
Goal G: Government ensures food security for all in Vermont
| Objective G1 Financial Resources | Objective G2 Accessible Enrollment System | Objective G3 Office of Food & Nutrition Security | Objective G4 Emergency Response |
| Objective G5 Consistent Access to Food | Objective G6 Infrastructure Investment | Objective G7 Transportation Investment | Objective G8 Health Care |
Goal A: Vermont farms have the resources to be resilient
| Objective A1 Financial Support to Farmers | Objective A2 Conservation of Agricultural Lands | Objective A3 Agricultural Supply-Chain Investment | Objective A4 Equitable Farmland Access |
Goal C: Communities have the tools to support food security
| Objective C1 Town Planning | Objective C2 Local Collaboration | Objective C3 Local Food Access |