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Sponsor outlines H.423 to embed year‑round food system and land‑use changes into Vermont planning
Summary
A Burlington lawmaker previewed H.423, “An act relating to implementing the Vermont agriculture food systems strategic plan,” urging statutory steps to embed year‑round production, community infrastructure and land‑use changes to increase food security and local resilience.
Representative Gina, a Burlington lawmaker, introduced H.423 — “An act relating to implementing the Vermont agriculture food systems strategic plan” — and told the committee the bill is intended to move the state toward “a statewide year round agricultural” network of production, processing and storage linked to local communities.
The bill’s sponsor told the committee the measure is grounded in the state’s strategic plan and in grassroots experience running food distribution programs. The sponsor said those programs expanded during the COVID‑19 pandemic and described sustained demand: “we started doing food distributions … we’ve been going 3 nights a week to feed people, 10 at night,” the…
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