Food Studies: Bennington College Resources

In spring 2019, Bennington College was awarded $1 million from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to launch a three-year collaborative effort with local partners to address the systemic causes of food insecurity in Bennington County. This collaboration aims to both address the pressing problem of food insecurity in the area and to develop an interdisciplinary and responsive humanities curriculum with students, faculty, and the community, creating a model from which other higher education institutions can learn and build.

We are a group of Southern Vermonters dedicated to the communal harvesting of local food resources, to combat food waste and food insecurity in Bennington, Vermont. ​

On-campus farm run by students.

A free community seed library at Crossett Library.

Frost's home in Shaftsbury, Vermont is owned and managed by Bennington College. In addition to the house, the property includes 7 acres of land with stone walls, a barn and some heirloom apple trees from Frost's orchard.