What We Do

… and what we’ve done:

The Stroll is not just a parade — it’s a movement. We work year-round to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation at farm and food businesses, to connect people and organizations of many kinds around sustainable living and resilient communities, and to promote the value of local food systems, local thinking and Slow Living. (Download PDF magazine about all this.) Here’s an overview of our focus areas and accomplishments:

Windham Grows: Farm/Food business hatchery

MISSION: In collaboration with state and regional partners, to build the food and agriculture business sector in Windham County...

Slow Living Summit

Join us for the 2020 Slow Living Summit: Take a Bite Out of Climate Change! What Are Beverage, Food and Local Producers doing for Climate Change, Economic Sustainability & Land Use?

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Locavore Index: How does your state rank?

Our Strolling of the Heifers Locavore Index keeps track of which states are most committed to local foods. First...

Woodlands & Forestry

The working landscape of New England includes more woodlands than farmlands — so each year at our Slow Living...

Art & Music

We strongly believe the arts are an integral part of building sustainable communities, and we work to integrate artists...

Educational Grants

In the early years of the Stroll, from 2002 to 2007, the organization offered small educational grants to Brattleboro-area teachers,...

Beginning Farmer Apprenticeships

A program to place at-risk youth into farm-based summer apprenticeships, the Beginning Farmer Apprentice Program (BFAP), was launched in 2009...