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Vermont

Vermont has been conducting Local Food Counts since 2011, with the most recent taking place in 2020. Vermont’s count has utilized the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Expenditure Series to estimate total in-state food expenditures. NEFNE’s local food counts for the other New England states utilizes the USDA’s Food Expenditure Series, which prior to 2023 was unavailable at the state level. Utilizing the State Food Expenditure Series increases the estimate for total food purchases within Vermont, and therefore changes the estimated percentage of local food purchasing in the state. In order to include Vermont’s data for our regional percentage, our Research team used the local food sales data from Vermont’s 2020, applied the total food expenditures from the USDA series for 2020 to recalculate the local percentage of the total, and then held that percentage constant and adjusted it to the 2022 USDA food expenditure data. As a result, the Vermont calculations and percentages for total and local food expenditures in this reporting reflect a 2022 estimate and do not match what is reflected in Farm to Plate’s Data Dashboard from 2020.

Note about Connecticut Maps

Note About Connecticut Maps: Although Connecticut has not had county governments since 1960, county boundaries have historically been used to depict data. For example, all USDA Census of Agriculture data for Connecticut is collected at a county-level. In 2022, the U.S. Census Bureau shifted to using Connecticut’s nine planning regions as county equivalent geographic units for data collection. This has presented a challenge for depicting data for Connecticut’s planning regions in Tableau. This mapping challenge has not been resolved yet, but when a solution is available, we will update Connecticut maps.

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NEFNE ’30 by 2030′ Report Webinar – Registration Form

What would it take for 30% of the food consumed in New England to be regionally produced by 2030?

September 26, 2023, 1:00 – 2:30pm

Join the New England Food System Planners Partnership as we address this question during our webinar: A Regional Approach to Food System Resilience, based on the four-volume report of foundational food system data commissioned and released in June 2023.

The report lays out an unprecedented compilation of the most current New England food systems data and frames the data intentionally to inspire conversation and action to reach the report’s proposed goal of New England producing and consuming 30% of its food by 2030.

Lead project managers, partners, and report researchers will join us to dig into the data. They will provide a short summary of the volumes, breakout sessions and offer a Q&A, with the goal of helping you and your organization utilize the report in strategic planning, fundraising, advocacy, and other work as we continue to build vibrant food systems in New England.