UVM Students Seek Your Input!

Have an interest in community gardens, artisan cheese, or local meat? Three UVM students need your input to help inform their research. There's a little something here for everyone, but be forewarned, the third description contains some serious puns!

Vermont Artisan Cheese Focus Group

A research project at the University of Vermont is seeking participants who frequently purchase Vermont artisan cheese and who are at least 18 years old. Participants will be asked to take part in a focus group lasting 75 to 90 minutes to discuss their cheese consumption habits and preferences in regards to eating and cooking with cheese. The focus group will include a brief cheese tasting and participants will be offered a $30 gift certificate to a local market as a thank-you for participation. Focus groups will take place during the week of March 11-17, 2012

For more information, please contact Jake Lahne at jlahne@uvm.edu with subject line “UVM CHEESE RESEARCH” or by phone during normal business hours at 207-710-7740.

Improving Gardens Survey

Hungry and care about your environment? Community gardens provide a bouquet of benefits for American urban dwellers, ranging from food literacy to environmental health. If such gardens are so beneficial, however, then why aren’t more people involved? A UVM student is researching similar questions for their thesis entitled “Digging Up the Dirt: Exposing the Barriers and Challenges of Community Gardening”. Whether you love gardening or hate it, your perspective can provide helpful feedback for improving the quality of life in Burlington. Click one of the following surveys to share your thoughts:

• Survey for Community Garden Members

• Survey for Anyone Not Involved in Community Gardening

Responses will be collected until March 23,  2012.

Attention Conscientious Carnivores

Please take a stab at this juicy consumer survey on everything meaty!  As part of her senior capstone research project for The University of Vermont Environmental Program, Ariel Hodgins is collecting information on values, perceptions and questions about beef and chicken and what all those fancy labels really mean. Not taking this survey would be a serious missed steak.

• Customer Value Survey: Meat and Poultry Choices

Your input is appreciated!