Vermont Foodbank

The Vermont Foodbank and the Hardwick Area Food Pantry report an increase in requests for free food.

Host Connor Cyrus talks to advocates about cuts to federal food assistance and how it will affect Vermonters.

Two in five Vermonters are facing food insecurity, according to recent data from the Vermont Foodbank. This comes amid rising costs of food, gas and heating oil. Yet local food donations are down 20%.

This hour, host Mikaela Lefrak talks with the head of the Vermont Foodbank about food insecurity across northern New England—and what's being done to address it.

As the federal relief that propped up nutrition-assistance organizations during the pandemic begins to disappear, food security advocates say Vermont will need to increase public support for food shelves and other programs in order to avoid a surge in malnutrition.

Getting food to Vermonters in need during the pandemic. Plus: police reform, Springfield Hospital’s bankruptcy filing, and a UVM medical student talks…

Since mid-May, a massive, federally-funded food program has put boxes of food into the hands of thousands of Vermonters. The program has been a boon to…

The cost of providing students with meals over the summer. Plus: the plans for Burlington’s police budget, more protests around the state, and COVID-19…

After COVID-19 closed Vermont’s schools, districts had to get creative in finding ways to continue feeding kids.And since the pandemic, every single…

Vermont Foodbank CEO John Sayles, along with other groups fighting food insecurity in the state, made a plea to state lawmakers in early June: Give us…