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Working Lands Trainings: Supporting farms and forests

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Vermont Business Magazine Working Lands Trainings: Supporting farms and forests from whelping to welding, farming to food, supply chain and systems, including manufacturing. Flexible learning available. Upcoming trainings include meat cutting, craft distilling, wetland delineation, tree pruning and ascension climbing, and basic welding.
Up-coming Trainings. Register Soon!
Meat Cutting: Butchering Basics
Learn the basics of whole-animal butchery with both instruction and hands-on demonstration.
Craft Distilling:
Begins June 2022
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Vermont is a leader in the nationwide craft distilling boom. Participants learn a variety of processes involved in building, operating, and working in the distilling industry.
Wetland Delineation:
Begins May 2022
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Participants learn about federal and state regulations, and permitting in relation to wetlands.
Lecture topics include: science of wetland hydrology; hydric soils; hydric vegetation; wetland development.
Tree Pruning and Ascension Climbing
Begins October 2022
This training covers the basic skills needed to become an arborist: including tree pruning, growth and health, and friction hitches for ascending a tree for spurless climbing.
Basic Welding
Begins April 2022
Learn basic welding techniques from MIG, TIG, STICK and how to use a plasma cutter.
Forestry Trainings
Learn more about forestry trainings at VTC and the Summer VYCC Forestry Work Crews!
Additional Trainings Coming in 2022