Vermont Town Boosted by Farm Collectives
October 9, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
A nonprofit organization is part of a small Vermont town’s overall effort to consolidate and shore up its farming industry and improve its overall economic fortunes, according to The New York Times.
The nonprofit Center for an Agricultural Economy is planning an industrial park in Hardwick, Vt., to center on farming businesses that seek to sell their products more widely. Elsewhere in and near the town of 3,000, farmers and other agricultural producers are luring investors, to a degree that the town’s manager says they have added between 75 and 100 jobs to the area in the past few years.
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