Farmer to Farmer, Vermont-Honduras is the agricultural project of the Vermont-Honduras Partnership, one of over sixty partnerships between the United States and Latin America and the Caribbean. Through Partners of the Americas, Farmer to Farmer programs link farmers in North American states and Latin American and Caribbean countries to share their knowledge of food production, distribution, and marketing operations.

In Vermont, Farmer to Farmer volunteers have focused on apple growing, value added processing, product marketing, and dairy production. The Center for Rural Studies at the University of Vermont in Burlington coordinates trips that send apple growers, dairy producers, and volunteers with other agricultural skills to Honduras for information and cultural exchange.

This web site was developed by Hannah Morris, AmeriCorps at the Center for Rural Studies to outline the Center's recent Farmer to Farmer activities. Our intention at the Center is that people interested in either learning more about Farmer to Farmer VT-Honduras or volunteering will find this web page useful as a means of contacting the appropriate people. Please send any additional comments or concerns about the web page to crs@zoo.uvm.edu.

Farmer to Farmer, VT-Honduras Directory

Vermont Farmer to Farmer Committee:
Lyn Carew
Animal and Food Sciences Faculty, University of Vermont
207A Terrill Hall, UVM Burlington VT 05405

Tom Dowe
Emeritus, Animal Sciences, UVM
55 Crescent Road, Burlington VT 05402

Jonathon Fisher
Spear Street, Charlotte VT 05445

Adam Hubbard
16 Henry Street, Burlington VT 05401

Fred Schmidt
Director, Center for Rural Studies, 207 Morrill Hall, UVM Burlington, VT 05405

Hannah Morris
AmeriCorps, Center for Rural Studies, 207 Morrill Hall, UVM Burlington, VT 05405

Kevin Wiberg
601 Main Street, UVM Burlington, VT 05405

Farmer to Farmer Friends:
David Andrews
RD 3 Box 1141, Middlebury, VT 05753

Kate Duesterberg
Elizabeth Seyler
Center for Sustainable Agriculture, UVM, 590 Main Street, Burlington VT 05405

Deep Ford
CDAE, Morrill Hall, UVM, Burlington, VT 05405

Volunteers:
Jim Gallot
RR1 Box 2617, New Haven, VT 05472

Elizabeth Skinner
335 South Union Street, #3, Burlington, VT 05401

Washington Contact:
Rich Lamporte
Vermont-Honduras Representative
1424 K. Street, NW #700, Washington, DC 20005

Honduras Contacts:
John Chater
Regional Program Coordinator, Farmer to Farmer
IMC-TGU, Dept. 338, Box 02-5320, Miami, FL 33102-5320

Chet Thomas
Executive Director, Project Aldea Global (PAG)
Apartado Postal 1149, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Kam Lidder
Assistance in PAG office
Apartado Postal 1149, Tegucigalpa, Honduras

Devina Tercero
Assistant, Honduras Partners of the Americas
Adelina Vazques de Andino, President
Apartado Postal 1712, Tegucigalpa, MDC, Honduras

Vermont Chapter of Partners of the Americas - Vermont-Honduras Partnership:
Dolores Sandoval, President
537 Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, VT 05405

Lyn Carew, Vice President (see address under Farmer to Farmer Committee)

Mary Carlson, Secretary
102 Morrill Hall, UVM, Burlington, VT 05405

Betty Ann Dowe, Treasurer
55 Crescent Street, Burlington, VT 05401

Chigee Cloninger, Member at Large
499-C Waterman Building, UVM, Burlington, VT 05405

Tom Dowe, Executive Director (see address under Farmer to Farmer Committee)

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Partners of the America, the largest private voluntary organization in the western hemisphere dedicated to to promoting economic and social development in the Americas. Partners of the Americas was founded in 1964 as the "people to people" component of the Kennedy Administration's Alliance for Progress. Partners today is a non-proift organization supported by individuals, private foundations, the U.S. government and corporations. For more information, see the Partners of the Americas web page.

FHIA: The following are some of the requests for volunteers put forth by FHIA. They will probably need four to five volunteers per year.

1. Seedling Producers: The production of vegetable plants for sale to local growers who then plant for production. They are especially interested in plug planting. Their idea is to develop community "viveros" where local farmers come to buy already started plants.

2. Sweet Corn Specialists: FHIA has developed a sweet corn variety for Honduras. Everyone here has tried to grow sweet corn with little success. Now there is a Honduran variety and FHIA wants to know if there is a market for sweet corn, where it might be, how to access it, and other issues. They would like a volunteer who can help move this project from the experimental stage to reality.

3. Organic Vegetable Specialists: They need volunteers who can help with fertilizers, soils, worm culture, pest control, and marketing.

4. Irrigation Volunteers: They seek experts who can develop practical, low technology, low cost systems to get water to the plants during the dry season.

5. Refridgeration Specialist: Though this project doesn't sound like agriculture, FHIA realizes the importance of cold storage to farmers. Their idea is to develop collection centers in strategic locations so farmers can store their produce before marketing.

6. Value added and food processing technicians. Volunteers who can help small producers increase their income by processing food products.

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