Elodie Reed
Digital ProducerElodie is a digital producer and covers dairy and agriculture for VPR. 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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At a Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs meeting this week, Indigenous women spoke up about sexism and cultural appropriation among state-recognized Abenaki tribes. -
Farming has never not been a stressful job. But increasingly, state and federal agencies are prioritizing mental health services for those who work in agriculture. In Vermont, a new program is testing out how farmers can listen to and support one another through difficult times.
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Vermont has hit several record highs for the average price of gas in the past few weeks. It couldn’t come at a worse time for farmers.But there is an upside — dairy farmers are now receiving a much higher price for their milk.
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At this month’s Vermont Commission on Native American Affairs meeting, members and allies of the state’s recognized tribes responded to a recent presentation at the University of Vermont. They rejected Odanak First Nation’s claims of Vermont tribes being “Pretendian.”
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Last week, Abenaki representatives from the Odanak First Nation addressed an uncomfortable, long-simmering dispute. Odanak citizens and officials said Vermont's state-recognized tribes are misrepresenting themselves as Abenaki – and profiting from it – when they are not Indigenous.
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On a recent April evening, half a dozen farmers gathered inside a Burlington greenhouse. There they attended a gardening class put on by the Association of Africans Living in Vermont. The class is meant to help farmers adapt crops from warmer parts of the world – to Vermont’s rather short growing season.VPR’s Elodie Reed brought back this postcard.
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El primero de mayo, trabajadores de granja y sus defensores, se van a juntar para pedirle a Hannaford Supermarkets que se una a su programa de Leche con Dignidad por tercer año consecutivo.Leche con Dignidad, en inglés Milk with Dignity, es un programa creado por Migrant Justice — una organización que defiende los derechos humanos, fundada y liderada por agricultores inmigrantes en Vermont. Esta brinda recursos y busca que los líderes de compañías mejoren las condiciones laborales y de alojamiento en su granjas.
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On May 1, farmworkers and their advocates will join together to call on Hannaford Supermarkets to join the Milk with Dignity program — for the third year in a row.Milk with Dignity is a program created by Migrant Justice, a human rights organization founded and led by immigrant farmworkers in Vermont. It enlists the resources and market power of companies to improve labor and housing conditions on dairy farms.
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Vermont's organic industry is celebrating after the U.S. Department of Agriculture closed a loophole in standards for how operations source their cows.
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Addison Superior Court Judge Mary Miles Teachout has ordered Vorsteveld Farm in Panton to reduce the impact of its water runoff and manure odors on its downslope neighbors.
