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Vermont Housing & Conservation BoardChristine H. Hart, Chair; Executive Director, Brattleboro Housing AuthorityEmily Wadhams, Vice-Chair, Consultant with the Preservation Trust of VermontSarah E. Carpenter, Executive Director, Vermont Housing Finance AgencyRoy Folsom, Farmer, Crooked Brooks Farm, CabotDavid Marvin, Butternut Mountain Farm, MorrisvilleNeil Mickenberg, BurlingtonDouglas A. Racine, Secretary, Agency of Human ServicesBill Roper, WeybridgeChuck Ross, Secretary, Agency of Agriculture, Food and MarketsMichael C. Snyder, Commissioner, Department of Forests, Parks and RecreationThomas Yahn, BrattleboroAgricultural Advisory CommitteeChuck Ross, Chair; Secretary, Agency of Agriculture, Food and MarketsSam Burr, Monkton farmerAbbie Corse, Whitingham farmerDennis Kauppila, UVM Extension ServiceRobert Paquin, USDA Farm Service AgencyRachael Phillips, USDA Natural Resources Conservation ServiceJohn Peters, Yankee Farm Credit25Vermont Farm Viability Program Advisory BoardChuck Ross, Chair; Secretary, Agency of Agriculture, Food and MarketsGary Braman, Loan Officer, USDA Farm Service AgencyRusty Forgues, Addison farmer, The Rusty John FarmAlex Ibey, Economic Development Specialist, Department of Economic DevelopmentSarah Isham, Senior Agricultural Loan Officer, Vermont Economic Development AuthorityDouglas Lantagne, Dean, UVM ExtensionHannah Noel, Highgate farmer, Maplewood Natural OrganicsEarl Ransom, Strafford farmer, Rock Bottom Farm & Strafford CreameryBill Suhr, Shoreham apple grower, Champlain OrchardsVHCB StaffExecutive Director: Gus SeeligFinancial: Anne Duffy, Kathy Barrows, Marcy Christian, John GrosvenorAdministration: Larry Mires, Pam Boyd, Laurie GravesConservation: Karen Freeman, Nancy Everhart, Kris Hammer, Ethan ParkeHousing: Polly Nichol, Willa Ruth Davidian, Rick DeAngelis, Kathleen Kanz,Ariane Kissam, Craig PeltierHealthy Homes Program: Ron Rupp, Marty Bonneau, Diane Mackay, Bob Zatzke,Marc CompanionVHCB AmeriCorps Program: Francis Sharpstene, Joan Marie Misek, Melissa SchlobohmVermont Farm Viability Program: Ela Chapin, Liz GleasonLegal: Jim Libby, Elizabeth EganPhotography: staff, grantees, and as creditedWriting: VHCB staffDesign: Pam BoydPrinting: Leahy Presss The Stowe Land Trust purchased and conserved 258 acresof the Cady Hill Forest and donated the land to the Townof Stowe with a conservation easement held by the StoweLand Trust and the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board.Eleven miles of trails are used for hiking, biking, running,hunting, Nordic skiing and snowshoeing. The trail systemlinks to other trails in the area. A trail map with public accesspoints is posted on the Stowe Land Trust website (www.stowelandtrust.org/conserved). Stowe Land Trust photo.front cover photos, clockwise from top left: Cy and AndreaNelson purchased the conserved Johnson dairy farm inCanaan (Caleb Kenna photo); the award-winning BrattleboroFood Co-op/Canal and Main Housing development(Windham & Windsor Housing Trust photo); Thayer Houseresidents Beverly Muir and Joyce Dusharm (CathedralSquare Corporation photo); Cady Hill Forest (Stowe LandTrust photo).back cover photo: Gilmore Farm, Tinmouth (Vermont LandTrust photo)
January 31, 2013A. Blake Gardner photos The Brattleboro Food Co-op, the Windham& Windsor Housing Trust and Housing Vermontteamed up to construct an award-winning,energy effiicient building for the co-op with 24apartments on the upper floors.s The Kempton Farm in Peacham, conservedby the Vermont Land Trust in 1990 with VHCBfunding. Today, the next generation of Kemptonsis shipping milk to Cabot for their award-winningcloth bound cheddar that is aged at the Cellarsat Jasper Hill in Greensboro.sGovernor Shumlin, Senators Hartwell andSears celebrating with the Regional AffordableHousing Corporation and Housing Vermont atthe ribbon cutting for Roaring Branch Apartmentsin Bennington.Congratulations to the Vermont Housing & Conservation Board andits many community partners for 25 years of investment in Vermont,improving the quality of our lives and the economic vitality of ourcommunities. Through a network of organizations, Vermonters have usedvhcb funding to secure almost 11,000 affordable homes and 400,000 acresof land for food and forest productivity, wildlife habitat protection and publicrecreation.These investments reinforce our multi-generation land use policy of compactvillage settlement surrounded by a working landscape. To complement vhcbinvestments, the Board’s community partners have generated more than a billiondollars in private equity loans and federal grants. The results are evidentin vibrant communities with revitalized historic downtown buildings, moreaffordable housing, an investment in our agricultural sector, and increasedrecreational opportunities for Vermonters, whether one loves to hunt, fish,snowmobile, ski, cycle or go for a quiet walk in the woods.In this last year, the Board’s housing partners have been busy assistingVermonters who lost their homes in Hurricane Irene. Additionally, the Boardhas invested $2 million to match the fema Hazard Mitigation Grant Program,helping homeowners who need to rebuild. Likewise, the Board’s conservationpartners have been working with farmers whose fields were devastated by Ireneand making certain that we conserve the natural floodplains that rivers needto avoid future devastation of our communities.Over the summer and fall, I’ve had the opportunity to visit housing developmentsfrom Bennington to Burlington. These projects combat climate changewith high levels of energy efficiency and smart growth locations. I continueto enjoy, as all Vermonters do, the simple pleasures provided by our countrysideof farmland and forested hills. The Board’s work helped set in motionmy administration’s first new program, the Working Lands Enterprise Board,which will build on our state’s investment in the infrastructure of our workingland enterprises, both agriculture andforestry.Finally, the 25 th anniversary wouldnot be complete without acknowledgingthe national recognition that cameto my home county after the Boardnominated the new Brattleboro FoodCo-op Building for the epa’s SmartGrowth Achievement Award as theBest Main Street Project in the UnitedStates—and we won!We all look forward to another 25 years of great success. Congratulations toall involved, and happy anniversary.Sincerely,Peter Shumlin, GovernorState of Vermont
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