The Evolution of a Food Hub: Celebrating the Growth of the Food Connects Food Hub, Part I
Producer Spotlight: Short Creek Farm
Food Hub Special Schedule: April 2023
Food Connects Goes to the Vermont Statehouse for Farm to School Awareness Day
Staff Spotlight: Food Hub Procurement Coordinator Katie Endicott
Bennington Rutland Supervisory Union Partners with Food Connects
Producer Spotlight: Champlain Orchards
A Day in the Life at the Food Connects Food Hub Part IV: Sales Trips
Collaboration Brings Local Food Boxes to Killington Grand Resort Hotel Employees: Part II
Producer Spotlight: Champlain Valley Creamery
Food Hub Special Schedule: November-December 2022
VT Law & Graduate School Spotlights Food Hub Director, McKenna Hayes
Collaboration Brings Local Food Boxes to Killington Grand Resort Hotel Employees: Part I
Producer Spotlight: Wellness Croft
Food Connects Reflects on the First Vermont Cheese Summit
A Partnership in Action
Producer Spotlight: American Vinegar Works
Vermont Farms Feeding Vermont Students
Customer Referrals
A Day in the Life at the Food Connects Food Hub Part III: Deliveries
Producer Spotlight: Jack’s Crackers
NH Eats Local Month
We're Hiring
Customer Referrals
A Food Connects Cheese and Charcuterie Board
Producer Spotlight: Simple Gifts Farm
Join Us for A Film Viewing and Discussion of GATHER
New Producers of 2021 and 2022
We're Hiring
Warehouse Behind the Scenes
Frisky Cow Gelato Certifies as a B Corporation
We're Hiring
Eat Indie Local: Call for Partners
Join Us for A Film Viewing and Discussion of GATHER
Food Connects Brings Regional Food to MA Schools
How New Hampshire’s Food Hubs Working Better Together Means More Local Food on Your Plate
A Day in the Life at the Food Connects Food Hub Part I: Pickups
Producer Spotlight: Peachblow Farm
Culturally Relevant Foods
Food Hub Special Schedule: May-June 2022
Meet our New Marketing Coordinator
Promos: Chi Kitchen: VT Bean Crafters, Katalyst Kombucha
Food Connects Receives Agency of Agriculture Grant
VT Open Farm Week
Crafting a Local Lunch: How Windsor High School is Shifting School Meals
Spring Produce Preview
Food Hub Special Schedule: May-June 2022
Vermont Way Foods: A Catalyst for Change
Producer Spotlight: Hosta Hill
Promo: Frisky Cow Gelato; Bear’s Fruit Kombucha; Jaju Pierogi, Boyden Beef
Behind the Scenes: Just-In-Time—How Food Gets From the Farm to Your Shelf
Support Milkweed Farm's Land Transition!
Let’s Rejuvenate the Sullivan Country Store
Producer Spotlight: Hudson Valley Fisheries
Promo: Barrett’s Garden
NH Food Alliance Partner Map
Producer Spotlight: Winter Moon Roots
CCCD’s Mushroom Sale
Why the Food Supply Chain Is Strained. Again.
Promos: Katalyst Kombucha, 5 Generations Creamery
Dublin & Dairy: How Dublin Christian Academy is Honoring Its Roots
Monadnock Food Co-op Farm Fund
Food Connects and the Vision of New England Food Systems
Producer Spotlight/Promos: Sherpa Foods
Essex High School Partners with Food Connects
Behind the Scenes: Driving is more than getting us from point A to point B
Orchard Hill Breadworks Illuminates Community
Producer Spotlight: Katalyst Kombucha
Promos: FinAllie Ferments
2021 Specialty Product Guide
2021 Holiday Schedule
The Taste of Food Connects is Back!
Recipe: Butternut Squash & Apple Soup
Producer Spotlight: Blue Ledge Farm
Three River Farmers Alliance Partnership
Vermont Way Foods Hires Matt Landi
Producer Spotlight: Smith’s Country Cheese
Introducing Raymond!
Job Opportunity: Driver
Promos: Red’s Best Seafood, Atlantic Sea Farms, Rhapsody Natural Foods
The Vermont Food Hub Collaborative L3C, dba Vermont Way Foods™ (VWF) has hired Matt Landi as Director of Brand and Business Development. Landi will launch the VWF brand and build demand through strategic market development. Landi will pursue opportunities to drive market growth that supports the brand’s mission of growing and distributing food the Vermont way in order to create a more sustainable and equitable food system for all Vermont farmers and food makers.
Landi brings with him more than 20 years of management experience in the food sector, a time spent wholly focused on working with purpose and mission-driven companies, and with a drive for supporting equitable and natural resource-conscious supply chains. Committed to the organic and natural foods trade, Landi has worked for a number of organic produce distributors and retailers alike, providing valuable strategic leadership and influence. Landi also has roots in Vermont, holding a B.A. in Political Science/Environmental Studies from the University of Vermont.
Prior to joining VWF, Landi’s time on the west coast included, most recently, as Vice President and General Manager of Awe Sum Organics in Santa Cruz, CA, and Director of Sales at Organically Grown Company in Portland, OR. Early in his career he also held a role locally with Onion River Cooperative in Burlington, VT. Other leadership endeavors that Landi focuses on are serving as chair of the Board of Directors for the Organic Materials Review Institute in Eugene, Oregon, and Co-Chair of the Sustainable Food Trade Action Council of the Organic Trade Association (OTA).
Landi said “I feel incredibly fortunate to have had the opportunity to serve the food and agriculture sector over the last two decades from such a diversity of vantage points, from highly localized organic supply chains to organic trade on a global scale. I’m incredibly honored to be able to come back home to New England, which is where it all started for me, to go to work for farmers and producers across Vermont, joining forces with so many great folks that are already engaged in this work and have really led the way. The Vermont Way Foods™ tagline of “Food with a Compass” is one that speaks volumes to me and I hope translates well to eaters across the region!”
Get in touch with Matt Landi at (831) 818-0179 or matt@vermontwayfoods.com
The Vermont Food Hub Collaborative (VFHC) L3C was founded by a group of four VT-based nonprofit farm and food organizations (Intervale Center, Food Connects, The Center for an Agricultural Economy, and Green Mountain Farm-to-School) with the goal of operating a transactional network for effective and efficient food aggregation, logistics, and distribution. The VFHC has developed the Vermont Way Foods™ brand to create new market opportunities for Vermont producers in support of a robust and vibrant farm and food economy. Learn more at https://www.vermontwayfoods.com/.
Eat Local Months Are Here
Milkweed Farm
Recipe: Chocolate Marbled Zucchini Bread
Producer Spotlight: Pete’s Stand
Lift Delivery
Welcome Raymond
Back to School with Food Connects Campaign
Promos: Old Friends Farm
On the Road Again—Deliveries to NH and Burlington
The Recipe Box: Watermelon Gazpacho
Producer Spotlight: Curly Girl Pops
Eat Local Months
New Markets for New England Cheese
Promos: Vermont Bean Crafters, Mi Tierra Tortillas
