Skip to main content
Home Shelburne Farms

Header Secondary Menu

  • Calendar
  • Stay
  • Shop
  • Search

Main navigation

  • About
    • Main Links
      • About Shelburne Farms
      • Our Mission & Vision
      • Our Farm & Food
      • Our Equity Work
      • Climate Action
      • History of the Property
      • News & Stories
    • More Links
      • Join Our Team
      • Staff & Board
      • Media Center
      • Contact Us
      • Our Program Partners
    • News & Stories
      group of people in field with sheep
      Find all our blogs here.
    • Climate Action
      aerial view of solar panels in field with coach barn, inn, lake in foliage season
      How we're addressing global climate change
  • For Educators
    • Main Links
      • For Educators
      • Professional Learning
      • School Programs
      • Resources
      • Partnership Projects
    • More Links
      • Educator Program Calendar
      • News & Stories
      • Request Information
      • Get Our Emails
    • See 2027 Professional Learning
      Two adults smile while holding green leaves up to the sunlight
      Connect with your "why"
    • Learn more
      A large group of people smile under a brick archway
      Education for Sustainability Certificates
  • Visit & Learn
    • Main Links
      • Visit & Learn
      • Day Visit, mid-May to mid-October
      • Stay & Dine
      • Calendar
      • For Families & Youth
      • Farm Campus
      • Accessibility
    • More Links
      • Walking Trails
      • Children's Farmyard
      • Seasonal Tours
      • Farm Store & Welcome Center
      • Visiting November to April
    • Day Visits
      man and woman with child on her shoulders looking at cows in a field
      Discover what you can do & learn, May 9-Oct. 18, 2026
    • Stay & Dine
      Inn with peonies - stay and dine
      Shelburne Farms Inn, May 8-Oct. 19, 2026
  • Support
    • Main Links
      • Support Our Work
      • Special Funds
      • Stewards of the Farm
      • Legacy Giving
      • Why We Give
    • More Links
      • Annual Reports
      • Campaign for Shelburne Farms
      • A Message of Gratitude
      • Download Photos of the Farm
    • Learn more
      2 people sitting on a bench looking at the lake and sky
      Give Through Your Donor Advised Fund
    • Learn More
      a woman in man in sunglasses, short sleeves, and long pants walk side by side on a gravel trail beside pastures
      Give Through Your IRA
  • Calendar
  • Stay
  • Shop
  • Donate

News and Stories

Breadcrumb

  • Home
  • About Shelburne Farms
  • Blog Listing
For All
For Educators
  • All
  • Updates
  • Climate Action
  • Cheddar
  • Campus & Buildings
  • Education Impact
  • Family Activities
  • Food & Farming
  • History
  • Nature / Natural Resources
  • Research
  • Recipes
a golden sunset sky behind a lake, with branches and trees silhouetted and two people walking by lake
Climate Action
Campus & Buildings
Research

Getting to Net Zero: Update

An update on our efforts to bring our net greenhouse emissions to zero by 2028, and what we're learning in the journey.

dana bishop in front of evaporator
Climate Action
Food & Farming
Nature / Natural Resources
Research

First Day of Sugaring: The Writing's on the Wall

We boiled our first maple syrup this year on February 5th–the earliest date in memory. Is this climate change at work? We look at our data.

A dozen adults sit and stand along a rocky lakeshore in fall, listening to an instructor speaking to the group
For Educators
Climate Action
Place-Based Education

A Watershed for Every Classroom Returns

The transformational professional learning program will welcome a new group of educators in 2024.

brown cows grazing in summer with sun setting in background
Climate Action
Food & Farming

Why Cows at Shelburne Farms?

Cows are a known contributor to climate change, so why do we continue to have cows on our farm? Here are some answers.

herdsman opening gate for herd of brown swiss cows to enter a pasture. Lake and mountains in distance.
Updates
Climate Action
Food & Farming

Dairy Farming in a Changing Climate

At a recent gathering of farmers, dairy manager Sam Dixon discussed our managed grazing system, how climate change is shifting the already unpredictable business of dairy farming, and what we’re doing about it.

A young person gazes at a small net holding discoveries from a pond and smiles
For Educators
Climate Action
Education Impact

Getting REAL: A Framework for Climate Change Education

Climate change education specialist Joan Haley writes about the best practices of equity-centered climate change education—and shares hopeful stories of the educators and learners already doing this work in our region.

Man in a field gesturing and talking to several other people.
Updates
Climate Action
Research

Climate Action Planning for Net Zero by 2028

Shelburne Farms has set a goal to achieve net zero by 2028. How do you go about tackling a goal like that? Our Climate Action Advisor, Connor Stedman, shares his thoughts.

Students stand on a dock overlooking the East River, pulling up an oyster trap
For Educators
Climate Action
Education Impact

Oyster Reefs as a Climate Change Adaptation

This and other work from educators in our 2022–23 Climate Resiliency Fellowship.

Cows standing among trees
Climate Action
Food & Farming
Nature / Natural Resources

Climate Action at the Dairy: Silvopasture

Within our pasture-based dairy system, we are pursuing climate mitigation strategies that will help us achieve “net zero” carbon status organization-wide by 2028. One strategy: silvopasture.

Climate Action
For Educators
Justice

Supporting Climate and Food Justice

Watch this webinar, which explores the intersection of climate and food and offers answers to the question: How can we support youth who are grappling with these massive issues?

  • Load More

sbf-text

1611 Harbor Road Shelburne, Vermont 05482 

Telephone: 802-985-8686

An education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future through its programs, place, and products. Home to the Institute for Sustainable Schools, our historic campus is a 1,400-acre diversified farm located on the homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.

Quick Links

  • Contact Us
  • Media Center
  • Getting Here
  • Gather
  • Join Our Team

Navigate

  • About Shelburne Farms
  • For Educators
  • Visit & Learn
  • Support Our Work
  • Calendar
  • Stay
  • Shop

Stay in Touch

Get our news

Follow us on social Media

  • Facebook
  • Vimeo
  • Instagram

Footer Tertiary

Back to top
  • Copyright 2025

Shelburne Farms is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (Tax ID #03-0229347)