The Intervale Center supports financially viable and environmentally sustainable agriculture. We manage 354 acres of farmland, nursery, compost production, trails, and wildlife corridors along the Winooski River in Burlington, Vermont, and we share what we do and what we learn with others around the state and throughout the world.  In 1986, Will Raap, founder of Gardeners Supply Co., spearheaded an Intervale clean-up effort to restore this special area to its agricultural roots and feed Burlington. Thanks to nearly 20 years of extraordinary work by the Intervale Center (initially named the Intervale Foundation) and those who farm here, the Intervale area has been transformed into a nationally recognized center for sustainable agriculture.

In the 1980s, the Intervale was dangerous, polluted and an unwelcome place for visitors. Today, visitors find in the Intervale a unique community model and resource built around healthy, locally grown food, systems for recycling organic waste, and a financially viable and environmentally sound agricultural economy. We manage 350 acres of farmland, trails, wildlife corridors, a native plant nursery and compost production along the Winooski River, and we share what we do and what we learn with others around the state and the world.

With support from grants and individual donors and revenues from our enterprises, we deliver on the following goals: to grow viable farms, preserve productive agricultural land, increase access to local, organic food, compost and other soil amendments, and protect water quality through organic waste management and stream bank restoration. Our Mission: To develop farm-and land-based enterprises that generate economic and social opportunity while protecting natural resources. The Big Picture: As people disconnect from active lifestyles, nutritious food, and the natural world, they become less healthy. Community fabric becomes frayed. Food producers struggle financially while people nearby consume highly processed food products with minimal nutritional value manufactured in distant facilities. At the Intervale, we are trying to reverse this cycle. Reconnecting people, food and nature helps to preserve natural resources and create a roadmap to a secure food system and a sustainable future. Our Goals: Our goals are to grow viable farms, preserve productive agricultural land, increase access to local, organic food, compost and other soil amendments, and protect water quality through organic waste management and stream bank restoration.

Products:
1. Ben & Jerry’s Flower Seed Pint Planter

Vendor Info:
www.intervale.org
The Intervale Center
180 Intervale Road
Burlington, Vermont 05401  
Phone: (802) 660-0440