Elodie Reed
Digital ProducerElodie is a reporter and producer for Vermont Public. She previously worked as a multimedia journalist at the Concord Monitor, the St. Albans Messenger and the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, and she's freelanced for The Atlantic, the Christian Science Monitor, the Berkshire Eagle and the Bennington Banner. In 2019, she earned her MFA in creative nonfiction writing from Southern New Hampshire University.
Elodie grew up in New Hampshire and often crosses the river to visit family there. In her free time she likes to hike, read and write, spend time with her partner, Adron, their dog, Luna, and their cat, Chowder.
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Multiple Vermont organic dairy farmers, some through tears, asked lawmakers on Thursday for a one-time $9.2 million appropriation to keep them in business. The industry is currently experiencing high costs of production and a stagnant pay price. -
Host Mikaela Lefrak talks with dairy farmers, farm workers and the state’s secretary of agriculture about solutions to the most pressing issues in the dairy industry, including saving struggling organic dairy farms.
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Around a long table — and over bottles of milk and maple cookies — at the Dairy Farmers of America cooperative in St. Albans on Wednesday, U.S. Sen. Peter Welch listened to how Congress might support Vermont's dairy industry.
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After eight terms in Congress, Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy, 82, is preparing to leave this institution.Vermont Public’s Elodie Reed has this postcard from one of his final days on the Hill.
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Organic dairy farmers are in crisis. Costs are way up for fuel, feed and fertilizer. And without matching increases in the pay price for milk, advocates, officials and farmers themselves are worried they might leave the industry altogether.A lot of those same people are trying to crack this problem, including one organization that wants to use consumer power to get more local organic dairy on supermarket shelves.
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In 2021, the USDA launched its Indigenous Food Sovereignty Initiative. The goal is to rethink the USDA’s food and nutrition programs from an Indigenous perspective.
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According to a recent study, more than half of Vermont’s farmworker housing units are in need of repairs, including for health and safety issues.But even though on-farm housing is technically state-regulated in Vermont, farmworkers do not rely on state agencies for help. Instead, farmworkers use a program they built themselves.
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Según un reciente estudio, más de la mitad de las unidades de alojamiento de los trabajadores agrícolas en Vermont necesitan arreglos, y soluciones en temas de salud y seguridad.Pero, aunque el alojamiento en las granjas está técnicamente regulado a nivel estatal en Vermont, los trabajadores no pueden contar con la ayuda de agencias estatales. En cambio, los trabajadores agrícolas utilizan un programa que ellos construyeron.
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Organic dairy farmers are sounding the alarm: They need help. They're also trying to build a new, regional organic dairy cooperative.
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Anglers await the arrival of muskellunge in Swanton. Plus, Jewish advocacy groups push back on UVM’s response to an investigation, Ben and Jerry accuse Unilever of violating their merger agreement, federal aid for water projects, and signs of life at the Burlington pit.
