Youth Climate Corps Plants Pollinator Hedgerow

Adapted from a press release

Regeneration Corps, a youth service-learning program in agriculture and climate resilience, will work with close to 40 Woodstock students to plant a pollinator hedgerow at Cedar Mountain Farm.

Regeneration Corps is a learning collaboration between high school-aged students in Vermont and leading organizations that aims to empower youth in responding to climate change while building community resilience and strengthening local food systems. Partners in the Corps include Vital Communities, Building a Local Economy (BALE), Farm to Plate Network, Rural Vermont, and Change the World Kids.

The students in this project are part of the CRAFT (Community and Climate Resilience through Agriculture, Forestry, and Technology) program at Woodstock Union High School and Middle School.

The project will be done at Cedar Mountain Farm in Hartland and is funded by a grant from the Conservation Stewardship Program of the USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. The grant calls for implementing agroforestry practices on a Vermont diversified dairy farm. The Conservation Stewardship Program is a great program that is underutilized in Vermont, Regeneration Corps states. The planting will involve plants from a list of 12 hedgerow species recommended for the site.