Premium Goats’ Milk Production Expanding in Vermont
by Mike Furey Lined up on shelves at either end of the glass-enclosed atrium are 30 or more gold and silver statuettes along with 18 or so plaques representing dozens of national and international...
View ArticleHarsh Winter Leaves Farmers Out in the Cold
by Carolyn Grodinsky March 2014, the month for starting plants in the greenhouse, was one of the coldest on record. Temperatures ranged from a low of minus 16°F to a high of 11°F, averaging almost 11...
View ArticleThe Vermont Foodbank and Central Vermont Community Action Council Serve Up a...
by Emily Kaminsky Walking into Central Vermont Community Action Council’s new facility in downtown Barre, you would hardly know that in just seven months 11,000 pounds of food came through one door and...
View ArticleLaw to Farmer
by Jerry Carter Starting a business, running a farm and managing a farmers’ market are all complex endeavors. Each pursuit comes with its own myriad of legal hitches that can be daunting for someone...
View ArticleThe GMO Labeling Bill: Vermont Won’t Wait
by Amy Brooks Thornton Vermont has passed historic GMO (genetically modified organisms) labeling legislation—the nation’s first GMO labeling law to be effective without the requisite that other states...
View ArticleDog River Farm Dollars: A New Tech Twist on the Old CSA Concept Proves a...
by Emily Kaminsky On a cold and windy April morning in Berlin, Dog River Farm owner George Gross stands in one of his greenhouses amongst rows of organic onion starts destined for the shelves of City...
View ArticleBarre Farmers’ Market on the Move
by C.B. Hall The Barre Farmers’ Market has announced that it is moving to the grounds of the Vermont Granite Museum on Route 302, a mile and a quarter north of the market’s former location in the...
View ArticleGranite City Grocery: Testing a New Model
by C.B. Hall Once upon a time, 40 or so years ago, an energetic movement sprang up in Vermont as nonconformist consumers launched cooperative buying clubs to preorder whole-grain flours, dried fruit...
View ArticleHeard On The Street 4.17.14
There’s a new organic farm in South Barre! Bear Roots Farm is a small-scale, diversified, organic vegetable farm located in South Barre at 175 Snowbridge Road. Our goal is to produce high quality,...
View ArticleNature Watch 4.17.14
We finally made it into the woods to check the vernal ponds, and a semi-permanent pond used each year by countless Jefferson and spotted salamanders and wood frogs. Well, guess what? For the first time...
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