“How can you put a price on the environment?” Farmer perspectives on stewardship and payment for ecosystem services

Alissa C. White is a postdoctoral research associate at the Gund Institute for Environment, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. Joshua W. Faulkner is research assistant professor at the University of Vermont Extension Center for Sustainable Agriculture, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. David S. Conner is a professor of community development and applied economics, University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. V. Ernesto Méndez is professor of agroecology and co-director of the Agroecology and Livelihoods Collaborative (ALC), in the Department of Plant and Soil Science, at University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont. Meredith T. Niles is an associate professor in food systems and policy in the Department of Nutrition and Food Sciences at the University of Vermont, and the associate director of the UVM USDA Agricultural Research Service Food Systems Research Center, Burlington, Vermont.