Michelle Bos-Lun

People need food security. Farms need support. This bill offers both.

It’s time to support farm and food programs with the Vermonters Feeding Vermonters Program


Michelle Bos-Lun (D-Windham-3), a third-term Vermont state representative from Westminster, is a member of the House Agriculture, Food Resiliency, and Forestry Committee. She is assisted this spring by a legislative intern, Taylor Abrams, a senior studying political science and economics at the University of Vermont.


WESTMINSTER-Recent federal cuts to food access programs and local food purchasing from farms for schools and food shelves have created a number of challenges for the Vermont food system. At the same time, economic uncertainties - including tariffs and threatened federal cuts - are making it even more difficult for Vermont households to make ends meet.

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Civility, civic duty, and civil discourse

The conversations at the polls on election day illustrate democracy in Vermont at its best — and where some of us need to do better

Michelle Bos-Lun, a Democrat, is serving her second term in the Vermont House of Representatives and is running for a third term. She and Rep. Leslie Goldman (D-Rockingham) jointly represent Westminster, Rockingham, and Brookline. A high school teacher and youth program leader who moved to Vermont in 2003 for...

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A state mushroom bill provides common ground

There is much to appreciate about mushrooms, including the bear’s head tooth — the species that area students decided should be the Vermont state mushroom

Rep. Michelle Bos-Lun (D-Windham-3) is a second-term representative for Westminster, Rockingham, and Brookline. She is a teacher, gardener, forager, and grower of mushrooms. WESTMINSTER-Vermont has a new state symbol: Hericium americanum, also known as bear's head tooth, a white, long-toothed mushroom indigenous to Vermont. Students from kindergarten through eighth...

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The time has come for overdose prevention centers

Michelle Bos-Lun is a second-term member of the Vermont House of Representatives, co-representing the Windham-3 district, which includes her hometown of Westminster as well as Rockingham and Brookline. On Dec. 29, I left my house at 4:45 a.m. and headed to Harlem with two legislative colleagues, Rep. Tristan Roberts (D-Halifax) and Sen. Tanya Vyhovsky (P/D-Chittenden-Central District) for a visit to the OnPoint NYC, the only overdose prevention center in the U.S., with two locations in New York City (though multiple...

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Legislative priorities extend beyond the state mushroom

Thank you for covering the priorities of Windham County legislators. Numerous issues were reported about my colleagues, but the only bill described for me was the Vermont State Mushroom bill. I am excited about that bill, which honors not only mushrooms as a symbol of Vermont but also promotes youth engagement in the democratic process. However, as I stated in a recent piece in The Commons: The mushroom bill is not the most important issue the Legislature will be facing...

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Keeping spore

Michelle Bos-Lun is a second-term member of the Vermont House of Representatives, co-representing the Windham-3 district, which includes her hometown of Westminster as well as Rockingham and Brookline. She is a secondary school teacher who also works with individuals experiencing homelessness. Last year, her photo in the "Happy Places" photography project that hung in the State House cafeteria showed her in the woods holding puffball mushrooms. I recently submitted a bill after consultation with some important stakeholders: the elementary students...

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I could not vote to send thousands back to the streets

On May 12, I cast my final vote of the 2023 legislative session. I did so in the Vermont State House, in what is often called “the People's House.” It felt to this legislator like those who work in the “People's House” had not done enough to ensure that vulnerable people would have a house. The vote was for the state budget, which passed 90 yes to 53 no, sealing the fate of 1,800 households whose members will be forced...

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‘This may be the most important vote I cast this year’

In 2018, the president at the time was perpetuating stigma and causing fear, blaming mass shootings on people with mental health challenges. At the time, I was a teacher and mental health advocate, and I asked to speak at Putney's March for our Lives rally. I addressed the crowd of 400 Vermonters, speaking about an issue close to my heart. In my talk - “Guns and Mental Illness: It's Not What You Think” - I raised concerns about the extraordinarily...

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