Dishing up the Local
At The Abbey we know the importance of community. We work with farmers and businesses to bring local produce and products to your tables. Spending our money locally not only helps enrich the local economy, we believe that the fresh, local food delivers enhanced nutrition to you and your children.
Meet some of our local connections:
Middlebury Union HS Greenhouse
The latest installment in the “Our Partners in Fresh” video series is a bit different from the ones we’ve already done.
Middlebury Union High School science teacher Steve Colangeli approached Abbey and Stanley about the school’s alternative education program and the work it does in the school’s greenhouse. At the beginning of November, Stanley paid them a visit.
Students in the program grow greens, lettuce, kale, etc…, harvest them and hand-deliver them to the cafeteria, where they are used in the salad bar. Many of our schools have similar partnerships.
Are you a local farm or business interested in helping our efforts in “Dishing Up Local!”? Contact us today!
Below is a larger sample of our local connections across the region. This is not a definitive list:
- Apple Barn — Bennington, VT
- Apple Ledge Farm — Newport, VT
- Back Roads Food — Brattleboro, VT
- Barre Town School Garden — Barre, VT
- Ben and Jerry’s — Waterbury, VT
- Bergeron & Son’s Produce — Sheldon, VT
- Big Papa’s Fruit and Veg — Stratford, VT
- Black River Meats — Springfield, VT
- Black River Produce — Springfield, VT
- Boyden Farms — Cambridge, VT
- Branon’s Barrywilde Maple — Fairfield, VT
- Brault’s Meat Market — Troy, VT
- Bridport Creamery — Bridport, VT
- Burke Road Maple — Burke, VT
- Burtts Orchard — Cabot, VT
- Chappelle’s Potatoes — Williamstown, VT
- Cold Hollow Cider Mill — Waterbury, VT
- Come Alive Outside — Castleton, VT
- Dutchess Farm — Castleton, VT
- Echodale Farm Sugarhouse — Lyndonville, VT
- Flack Family Farm — Enosburg Falls, VT
- Food Connects — Brattleboro, VT
- Grafton Village Cheese Co. — Grafton, VT
- Green Heron Farm — Richford, VT
- Green Mountain Aquaponics — Bennington, VT
- Green Mountain Coffee Roasters — Waterbury, VT
- Green Mountain Farm Direct — Newport, VT
- Green Mountain Farms — Enosburg Falls, VT
- Green Mountain Organic Creamery — Brattleboro, VT
- Joe Mintrone — Bennington, VT
- King Arthur Flour — Norwich, VT
- Kingdom Creamery of VT — Hardwick, VT
- Koffee Kup Bakery — Burlington, VT
- Lester Farms — New Haven, VT
- Maple Meadow Farm — Salisbury, VT
- Maria’s Bagels — Barre, VT
- Mayo Maples — Franklin, VT
- Monument Farms — Middlebury, VT
- Mount Anthony Union Middle School Greenhouse — Bennington, VT
- MVU Thunderbird Beef Coop — Swanton, VT
- NPC Processing — Shelburne, VT
- Nutty Steph’s — Middlesex, VT
- Pattie’s Patch — Whitehall, NY
- Paul Mazza Fruits & Vegetables — Colchester, VT
- Peaslee Farms — Guildhall, VT
- R. Keith Armstrong Farm — Bennington, VT
- Radical Roots — Rutland, VT
- Reinhart Food Service — Essex Junction, VT
- Riverside Farm — Pittsfield, VT
- St. Albans Co-Op Creamery — St. Albans, VT
- Sunrise Orchards — Cornwall, VT
- The Farm at VYCC — Richmond, VT
- Thomas Dairy — Rutland, VT
- True Love Farm — North Bennington, VT
- Upper Valley Produce — Waterbury, VT
- Vermont Chevon — Danville, VT
- Vermont Morning Cereal — Websterville, VT
- Vermont Village Cannery — Barre, VT
- VT Bread Company — Brattleboro, VT
- West Swanton Orchard — West Swanton, VT
- Westminster Cracker Company — Rutland, VT
- Wilcox Ice Cream — Arlington, VT
- Yolo Snacks — St. George, VT
- Shadow Cross Farms — Colchester, VT
- Vermont Pure Natural Spring Water — Randolph, VT
- Country Pure Foods — Ellington, CT
- Vermont Herb and Salad Company — Benson, VT
- HP Hood Milk — Lynnfield, MA
- Wyman’s of Maine — Wyman, ME
- Pete’s Cranberries — Cape Cod, MA
- Little Leaf Farms — Deven, MA
- Kayem Franks — Chelsea, MA
