COMMUNITY

Our community is everything.

In the face of our current environmental crisis, never has it been more important to create local resilience through cultural events, sustainable economic practices, and traditional and regenerative growing techniques. We believe in a return to local on all fronts.

From growing, to preserving, processing, transporting and selling, each person and process carries equal and valued importance in the system. With our arepas, we aim to provide a platform for practices and products that will foster resiliency, support local farmers, enhance local and regional markets and help in the regeneration of our surrounding ecology. 

Through food, music, art, and story-telling, we are developing educational programming to share in coordination with the food cart. We want people to eat their fresh and nutritious meals while learning about where their food comes from, and why it is so significant. We want to share corn's incredible story, from its origins, to migration around the planet, to nutrition and seed diversity.  

SOUTH ROYALTON PARTNERSHIP

We are working with the town of South Royalton where we leased an 8 acre plot to create a sustainable growing planting rotation system to serve as a buffer to our watersheds. The idea is to create a model to give farmers a way to diversify from conventional farming into a sustainable system.

This serves as an educational center as we aim to expand by purchasing the South Royalton House and make it the Moon and Stars Community Center.

MOON AND STARS COMMUNITY HUB

The next phase for Moon and Stars is to build a community facility in South Royalton Vermont at the iconic South Royalton House.

The focus of this center will be to serve as the community hub for regenerative and restorative food economy. There will be community space, a restaurant, housing, and food processing incorporated into the facility.

PARTNERSHIPS

Since our inception in 2019, we have had the opportunity to partner with all levels of our community. This has allowed us to work with farmers, schools, non profits and more to develop regenerative agriculture and food. Our partners are extremely important and help us accomplish our goals.

Schools

  • Dartmouth College, Hanover HN

  • University of Vermont Burlington VT

  • Upper Valley School, South Royalton VT

  • Thetford Academy, Thetford VT

  • The Ottauquechee School, Hartford VT

Farms

  • Cedar Circle Farm, East Thetford VT

  • Billings Farm, Woodstock VT

  • Root5 Farm, Fairlee VT

  • Hurricane Flats, South Royalton VT