Coming up Thursday on Central Vermont Community Radio: Paying farmers for things we all benefit from, plus UVM's work to strengthen local journalism.

9:00 - 10:00 am
Farmland doesn't just grow the food farmers sell—it helps store and clean rainwater, filter the air, provide habitat for animals, store carbon, and more. These are things everyone benefits from. Should farmers be paid for stewarding these ecosystem services? That discussion is happening now in the Vermont State House, and it's a surprising constellation of organizations that are opposed to the idea. We'll talk with two people who testified Tuesday: UVM researcher Mario Machado, and Hartland Farmer Stephen Leslie.
https://legislature.vermont.gov/committee/document/2024/189/Date/2-21-2023#documents-section

Local journalism is of vital importance to community resilience, and the UVM Center for Community News is helping train the next generation of local journalists, while providing a cadre of students to report in communities as part of their education. Emily Sheftman of the Center will tell us about some of the stories the students are breaking and how that makes a difference.
https://www.uvm.edu/ccn

10:00 - 10:30 am
Resilience Thoughts, a locally told Extempo story, and more.

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 https://archive.wgdr.org/

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