Plainfield Resilience Hub

At A Glance

Location: 

Plainfield, Vermont

Primary Issue Area:

  • Food
  • Living Economies
  • Climate Change & Energy

Active since:

2024

  • six individuals of different generations, race, and gender, standing next to each other and smiling in a softly lit church basement during Plainfield Community Meal.
  • A white tent set up on a green lawn, with rectangular tables and chairs set up beneath its shade and a multidude of folks standing, sitting, eating, and moving around the area
  • A low stone wall encloses a green roofed, steepled, white church in the background with a number of farmers market booths and folks beneath shade tents on the right hand side and a table with food on it on the left hand side, a folding green sign states 'Plainfield Farmers Market, 4-7pm'.

Our Purpose

The Plainfield Resilience Hub is being established as a town-wide collaboration to build and strengthen mutual aid networks that improve community members’ abilities to meet our needs and care for each other. Efforts are focused on preparing Plainfield to be more resourced in response to both short term disaster recovery and long term community resilience as we face continued climate and political threats. A resilience hub model generates a network of ways to meet the needs of people within the community that can also cross-pollinate with neighboring communities and villages. A resilience hub is driven by the community members most impacted and in relationship with town municipalities, state government resources, local organizations, businesses, and neighbors. Coalition building is underway among town buildings, spaces, activities, and efforts, intended to increase resource availability and accessibility for those most impacted by climate and political instability. In Plainfield, a Resilience Hub is not one singular location, rather an emerging cross-collaboration among town partners to reduce duplication, improve operational functionality, generate funding viability, strengthen communication, and to build possibility at meeting increasing community needs together, beyond what any one space or effort can do alone.