“A light wind swept over the corn, and all nature laughed in the sunshine.”
– Anne Bronte

- Events -

Fooster Farm Tour

When: Saturday, August 8 at 4:00 pm (please arrive on time)

Where: Fooster Farm, 161 South St., West Brattleboro VT

Please Register for this FREE event to let us know you're coming: https://airtable.com/apptB2TtzvgiBHof0/pagiELdUHMJMHi46v/form

Fooster Farm is a small, diversified family farm in West Brattleboro owned and operated by Jane Diefenbach and Ra van Dyk. Fooster Farm offers vegetables, eggs, and berries for sale through Guilford Food Hub and a free-choice CSA. Jane does most of the vegetable gardening on one-third acre and Ra manages the rotational grazing of 30 laying hens and a flock of six Katahdin sheep on five acres. Fooster Farm joined the Guilford Food Hub vendor community with truly modest offerings in 2023, added the CSA in 2024, and has been building capacity ever since. 

Fooster Farm follows organic production practices but is not yet organic certified. Soil health has been a major concern since Ra and Jane moved to this neglected farm in 2018. Most of the garden beds are no-till and Ra generates all of the compost used on the farm.

The tour will cover the four main gardens, the orchard, and the pasture, including sheep shelters and mobile coop, for those who care to walk 50 yards or so to the current paddocks. Topics for discussion could include cover cropping, nutrient cycling, crop protection, and plastic on the farm.

Questions? Email [email protected]

Register for Fooster Farm Tour

🚜 This event is the first in a series of Guilford Food Hub farm tours! Mark your calendar for other upcoming tour dates:

• August 30 - Equation Formulary (woodland mushrooms)

• September 19 - Hermit Thrush Homestead (produce)

• September 26 - Up the Road Farm (produce)

- Community -

Guilford Town-Wide Talent Show!

The Guilford Recreation Commission is looking for a few more musicians, dancers, ventriloquists, poets, storytellers, yodelers, jugglers, bird callers and artists of all kinds and ages to perfom a 5-10 minute, family-friendly talent show act for the Town Wide Talent Show. The show will be August 8th at 6pm at the Broad Brook Community Center.

Performance spots will be limited and on a first come basis, with priority for Guilford residents but they will also accept acts that include non-Guilford residents as long as one member lives in Guilford. They are also on the lookout for donations of artwork, gift baskets/cards, produce, offers of 1-hour services, tickets to events and any other donations for the Silent Auction. The auction will help raise funds for Guilford food programs, the Guilford Food Pantry and the Guilford Food Hub!

If you are interested in presenting a talent or donating an item for the auction please reach out to Recreation Commissioner and Town Clerk, Uriel Najera, at [email protected].

- Neighbors Supporting Neighbors -

NRFC Food Security Fund

In late 2025, Neighborhood Roots launched the Food Security Fund. This community-built safety net ensures no neighbor is left hungry when food budgets run short. What started as an emergency response to federal funding disruptions in 2025 quickly became something larger: our community raised over $6,000 in the first three months, and has contributed $6,370 altogether. But we want to keep this fund going!

To date, we've disbursed nearly $4,750 directly to Guilford Food Hub buyers(!!!) Those funds reach neighbors in two ways. First, any buyer feeling food insecure can add up to $50 in coupons when they place their order, no explanation required. Second, through donated food: farmers and vendors who sell through our market regularly contribute items at no cost, all listed in the Extras section of the online Food Hub Market.

The Fund is active, ongoing, and always open to contributions. If you'd like to help keep local food accessible for every member of this community, any donation, large or small, goes directly to work right here in Guilford.

Donate to Food Security Fund

To support the work of Neighborhood Roots Food Collective, please make a tax-deductible donation. Click the link below to donate, or mail a check to 1917 E Mountain Rd. Guilford, VT 05301. Thank you!

Donate to NRFC

Neighborhood Roots Food Collective - Guilford, VT
501(c)(3) nonprofit, EIN: 86-3068549 - [email protected]