My special assignment on Goddard College Community Radio's Community and the Pandemic has come to an end, and now I have more energy again to devote to the program Relocalizing Vermont. June's first program promises fascinating conversations on how Finland grows 80% of its food, and what Vermont can do to raise the percentage of our food grown here.

9:00 - 10:00 am
For years, Sen. Bernie Sanders brought representatives of Scandinavian countries to Vermont to talk about Nordic models for health care and other aspects of the welfare state. This week, Relocalizing Vermont is bringing in Sebastian Hielm from the Finnish Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry to talk about food security. What can we learn from a country that produces 80% of the food its people eat?

Rural Vermont is an organization Lt. Governor David Zuckerman identified in a May talk as one to work with to increase our state's food self-sufficiency. Graham Unangst-Rufenacht, who serves as policy director for the organization, will explain what initiatives they are working on.

10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story, plus upcoming events related to energy, food, and the local economy at the end of the age of oil.

Please tune in! Relocalizing Vermont runs Thursdays, 9:00 - 10:30 am Eastern, on WGDR Plainfield 91.1 FM / WGDH Hardwick 91.7 FM / streaming at wgdr.org

With on-demand streaming for two weeks after air date at www.wgdr.org/on-demand