Monday, February 17, 2014

Questions for interviews and interviewers


  1. How did you become involved with this issue?
  2. What are the regulations that dairy farmers in Vermont have to follow in connection to decreasing pollution?
  3. How can small farms change the way that they do business in order to decrease their pollution?
  4. What are the advantages of being organic?
  5. How does farming affect water pollution in particular?
-James Maroney, Citizen and Author of "Politics of Milk"
-Leslie Michaud, Kingdom Creamery of Vermont
-Katie Michel, Citizen and friend of Maroney
-John Herrick, VT Digger Environmental Intern

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Burlington Free Press Article

http://www.burlingtonfreepress.com/article/20111211/GREEN01/111210015/One-man-s-pollution-plan-Lake-Champlain
A way for Vermont Dairy Farmers to help clean up the waste from their farms in a way that will decrease runoff and water pollution in Lake Champlain.

University of Vermont Center for Sustainable Agriculture

http://www.uvm.edu/~susagctr/whatwedo/projectsresearch/DairySustainability.pdf
A research project on three different dairy farms and how they compare in terms of size and sustainability.

Interesting Story on Vermont Dairy Farmers

Check out this story from WCAX

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Vermont Farmer and his Water Control