Join us on June 23 for a tax and accounting online workshop with Cultivate Consulting. Members attend cost-free. More info + Attend →
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It’s Workshop Time!
Rural Vermont and VGA are excited to announce a partnership with Ben Grunow and Stephen Davidson of Treetop Alliance, a beautiful Tier 2 outdoor cannabis operation in Elmore for A Vegetative Mid-Season Maintenance & Flower Preparation Workshop on Saturday, June 13, from 10 am to 1 pm! Rural Vermont and VGA will provide key legislative and policy updates and be available to answer questions throughout the workshop. We hope to see you there!
Cannabis Accounting 101 Online Workshop
Join us on Tuesday, June 23, from 4 to 5 PM over Zoom for our second online workshop, with our friends Cultivate Consulting, breaking down what small business owners need to be aware of, and the nuances that can catch you by surprise when it comes to tax filing. Changes to Federal laws have now made this more complicated. Bring your bookkeeping and tax compliance questions! Slide-scale fee. VGA members attend cost-free.
Vermont’s Cannabis Market Is Unprofitable for Small Producers
We’re writing an open letter as the Cultivator Working Group of Vermont Growers Association, a committee of locally-licensed cannabis growers of different types and production sizes to advance the mission of VGA to establish a just, prosperous, and competitive market, to raise an urgent alarm that the regulated cannabis market has become an untenable business ecosystem for producers due to unfair laws, the situation is damaging the market, and that reasonable reform to address these flaws requires your support.
Retailer Principles
As Sara at Full Circle Farm and Ashley at Mothaplant are both well aware, to ensure a vibrant and thriving regulated cannabis industry for all licensees and consumers, Vermonters must prioritize shared interests over prosperity at the expense of others and reform the market's structure to be a just and viable. The Retailer Principles provide a set of clear and guiding values that retailers can adopt, enabling them to play a vital role in seeking a just market.
Vermont Cannabis Industry Emergency Fund
Cannabis farms and businesses are not eligible for federal emergency relief dollars, and the ongoing extreme weather events, as the result of human-caused climate change, affect licensees up and down the adult-use supply chain. The VGA Vermont Cannabis Industry Emergency Fund (VCIEF) is a collective action initiative for the industry by the industry, and grants are now open for applications.
The VCIEF is available to assist Vermont-licensed cannabis farms and businesses of every type in financial need after being adversely affected by natural and unnatural disasters.Learn more →
National Police Reform Now!
As a nonprofit organization, we condemn police violence and discrimination against Black, Indigenous, and People of Color. Black lives matter. The United States has centuries of structural racism and classism woven its’ fabric which we must recognize and dismantle together. VGA supports the efforts of Black Lives Matter in their pursuit to achieve these goals through national police reform. Please sign the petition and take a moment to lend a hand to this courageous effort.
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