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:
In 2015, Strolling of the Heifers organized its first Farm-to-Table Apprenticeship Program, which recruited, trained, and placed 11 formerly unemployed...
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MISSION: In collaboration with state and regional partners, to build the food and agriculture business sector in Windham County...
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Exploring more mindful communities: The sixth annual Slow Living Summit, focused on Food & Ag Entrepreneurship, is set for April 28-30,...
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Our Strolling of the Heifers Locavore Index keeps track of which states are most committed to local foods. First...
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Our Farm/Food Business Plan Competition spurs innovation and entrepreneurship at family farms, specialty food producers, restaurants and other food...
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The working landscape of New England includes more woodlands than farmlands — so each year at our Slow Living...
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We strongly believe the arts are an integral part of building sustainable communities, and we work to integrate artists...
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A farm-oriented microlending program, The Strolling of the Heifers Microloan Fund, was launched in 2008, in partnership with The Carrot...
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In the early years of the Stroll, from 2002 to 2007, the organization offered small educational grants to Brattleboro-area teachers,...
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A program to place at-risk youth into farm-based summer apprenticeships, the Beginning Farmer Apprentice Program (BFAP), was launched in 2009...
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