Category Archives: Education

Sustainability Story: Simone Lerner

From a very young age, sustainability and green living have been very important parts of my life. In 2004, I was born and so was my father’s non-profit organization, FRESH New London. My father founded the organization and both my parents worked for FRESH in efforts to provide food security and community gardens for our […]

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Earth Month Programming 2023

4/1: Environmental Club x Sustain Champlain Trash Clean Up12:00pm – 2:00pm, meet at Wick Hall; Google Form Sign up Info: Come to our kick off trash pick up event! We will have two more in the month of April, so join us in making our campus and community cleaner and prevent waste from ending up […]

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Environmental Career Panel on April 5th, 2023

Come join us for an environmental career panel with four women in various fields of environmentalism and sustainability! Date & time: April 5th, 4:00-5:00pm Location: CCM 233 Open to: current students, faculty, and staff Learn more about our panelists below! Tatum Robinson, 1% for the Planet, Champlain Alum Johanna Palmer, Atlas Technical Consultants Lara Bonn, […]

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Don’t Miss Great Workshops with City Market in October!

Reposted from City Market Don’t Miss Out – Seeing and Disrupting Racism with the Peace & Justice Center! This month, we’re so excited to partner with our friends at the Peace and Justice Center at our South End Community Room to learn tools for seeing and disrupting racism in our communities. This 101-level workshop is designed to provide […]

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Seeking Mentoring Coordinator for Everybody Wins!

Everybody Wins! VermontSchool-based literacy mentoring program Help children and reading mentors enjoy books together over lunch. Site coordinator openings in Chittenden County at J.J. Flynn Elementary School  and Edmunds Elementary School in Burlington . 10 hours/week starting in September, follows the school calendar and ends in mid-May with minimal and flexible summer hours. Starting pay […]

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VEEN March Newsletter: New VEEN Team Member, Member Mondays Social Media Campaign, and a Call for Nominations

Join us in welcoming our new VEEN Team Member!We want to introduce our new Communications, Membership, and Events Consultant, Sarah Hooghuis (she/they). Sarah brings six years of experience as an environmental educator and a strong background in communications and outreach to this position. You may recognize them from previous roles held at Audubon Vermont, Shelburne Farms, […]

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UVM TRIO Summer Staff Recruitment

UVM TRIO UPWARD BOUND2022 Summer Staff Recruitment Good afternoon, I am the Program Director of UVM TRIO Upward Bound, a federally-funded education program that serves limited-income high school students who would be first-generation college students. We run a 6-week academic summer program that helps these students (9th – 12th graders) improve their college readiness skills. Since our Upward […]

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Shelburne Farms’ Summer Professional Learning Enrolling Now

If you’re ready to hit the reset button, we invite you to join us for professional learning this summer. Amidst another challenging year, we’re thrilled to offer opportunities to recharge, form community, and reinvigorate your teaching practice – and, public health recommendations allowing, we’ll be learning in person with you on Shelburne Farms’ beautiful campus once […]

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News and Events from Shelburne Farms

About • Our Work • Calendar • Support • Blog • Visit • Stay & Dine • Farm Store Looking Back on 2021 in Photos. This past year, Shelburne Farms navigated the ongoing disruption of Covid to emerge a stronger, more resilient nonprofit organization. We are grateful to all of you who have championed our work through another challenging year. Thanks to your support we can share and steward our […]

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