Grow More, Waste Less

04/10/2025

Our Upper Valley Super Compost Project has a new website!

We're working with 8 schools to help them transform a combined 100,000 pounds per year of food scraps into healthy compost for school and community gardens.

THE UPPER VALLEY SUPER COMPOST PROJECT Growing Social and Soil Resilience The Upper Valley Super Compost Project (UVSCP) is a nonprofit initiative to bring tailored compost infrastructure to public schools and support the development of cooperative, fully integrated school composting programs. Super...

09/13/2024

We would LOVE to be able to fund all 12 applications for the Justice, Localization and Resilience Seed Grant!
Help us increase the funding pool from 25K to 40K.
Donate at the the link: https://gofund.me/a9075958
THANK YOU to the Cotyledon Fund and to all of our matching donors so far!

Donate by October 1!

09/06/2024

The request for proposals to the Justice, Resilience, and Localization Seed Grant closed on Monday, 9/2. The funding opportunity of up to $5K has attracted over a dozen amazing projects in need of funding to carry out their impactful work in our communities. They're all great!

Thanks to the Cotyledon Fund, we have just under half of the funds needed to support these projects in full.

Can you help us to raise the rest?

We all have something to offer for the greater good!
We welcome your contribution in any amount.
In fact, we need you!

To donate: https://gofund.me/a9075958

Grow More, Waste Less Regeneration Corps Emergence Mutual Aid Network Building A Local Economy (BALE)

Building Bridges for Justice, Resilience & Localization A Crowdfun… Resilience Hub needs your support for Justice, Resilience, Localization Seed Grant Fund

08/12/2024

Got an existing or desired municipal and/or school composting project?

Please join us for this two-day event: Compost Training: Successful Municipal and Institutional Design at Sunrise Farm in White River Junction VT. Registration required.

This is a hands-on and classroom workshop at a composting farm. Registration fee is $60 for two days and $40 for one including materials, breakfast, and lunch.

It is not required to attend both days, but attendees do need Day 1 or substantial experience to attend Day 2.
Day 1: Wed, August 28, 2024 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Day 2: Thurs, August 29, 2024 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Expert trainers
Mark Hutchinson, retired Maine Compost School and U Maine trainer and international consultant
Cat Buxton, local consultant of Grow More, Waste Less

Provided by the Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission in Lebanon, NH through a USDA grant.

More information and registration at https://tinyurl.com/MuniCompost or contact Vickie Davis at [email protected].

Please share this great opportunity to learn about scaling up composting!
NOFA-VT Rural Vermont Composting Association of Vermont White River NRCD Vital Communities Sunrise Farm VT

07/25/2024

Our local Conservation District White River NRCD is non-stop with the incredible opportunities to advance watershed and community resilience.
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Accepting Applications through August 5th!

07/25/2024

Upper Valley! What are you working on that needs a little funding boost?

The White River Valley Resilience Hub is proud to be in our 5th year of convening the Justice, Resilience, and Localization Seed Grant. Once again we’ve got $25,000 from the Cotyledon Fund to distribute to projects in the Upper Valley that aim to build bridges between present and future needs around climate resilience through on-the ground action that centers racial, social, and environmental justice. Grants of up to $5,000 are available to eligible projects. Applications due August 31.

Apply online here
https://forms.gle/vTVjiezFyUTNbx9z8

Want to help?
DONATE to increase the funding pool
https://gofund.me/a9075958

07/19/2024

Local funding opportunity: applications due Aug 31

Building Bridges for Justice, Resilience & Localization

A funding opportunity for resilience projects that impact the White River Valley Watershed

The White River Valley Resilience Hub is proud to be in our 5th year of convening the Justice, Resilience, and Localization Seed Grant.

Once again we have received $25,000 from the Cotyledon Fund to distribute to projects in the Upper Valley that aim to build bridges between present and future needs around climate resilience through on-the ground action that centers racial, social, and environmental justice. Grants of up to $5,000 are available to eligible projects.

How to apply:

Request For Proposals (RFP): Justice, Resilience, Localization 2024 Seed Grant application

Apply online here https://forms.gle/vTVjiezFyUTNbx9z8

Or, print the RFP [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1I3TQLSQgrfy35uNV7w9XBZS6leAi8y9K/view?usp=drive_link] and send a completed paper application by mail to:

BALE
PO Box 211
South Royalton 05068

Please contact Cat Buxton at catduffybuxton at gmail.com at the White River Valley Resilience Hub if you need assistance with the application process or if you’d prefer to be emailed a “paper” version.

*Applications due by August 31, 2024 *

Eligible projects:
- will have an impact on towns of the White River Valley region.
- are new and emerging projects that are focused on justice and climate resilience.
- center the principles of A Just Transition, as described by the Climate Justice Alliance, and factors of social change that include but are not limited to dismantling systems of oppression and racism; relocalization, and creating welcoming communities for all.
-build community resilience by working towards alternative economies (e.g. solidarity and mutual support economies).
- are intended to be ongoing and lasting with plans for continuation beyond a one-time event or activity.
- prioritize marginalized populations
- are ready to be implemented (not just an idea)
- have community based collaborators
- may not receive mainstream grant funding

DONATE - This year we’re also inviting our community to help increase our collective giving capacity through our Crowdfunding campaign: https://gofund.me/a9075958

05/07/2024

New Hampshire friends,
I'll be offering a free backyard composting presentation at the Town Hall in Grantham, NH this Saturday from 9 am - 11 am with the Upper Valley Lake Sunapee Regional Planning Commission.

FREE to JOIN a HOME COMPOSTING WORKSHOP
Do you have friends and neighbors who compost, and you want to compost too, but you don’t know how? Or maybe you already compost but still have a few questions? Attend this free event to learn more about composting and how you can make it fit your home, schedule, and food waste needs!

https://www.uvlsrpc.org/projects/waste-management-recycling/food-scrap/

08/07/2021

Save the date: August 29 is the Regeneration Fair on the South Royalton Green!
https://www.facebook.com/events/1939125129583754/