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You’ve heard about the cows who produce chocolate milk, right? Well, how about the cows who produce some of the finest hand-crafted, farm-fresh chocolates?   This is no joke!  The small herd at Thorncrest Farm in Goshen, Connecticut has a little help on...

Some say that Thanksgiving, with its emphasis on gratitude, family, and food, might be the most beloved holiday of the year. Though each family celebrates in their own unique way, certain themes are woven into the fabric of this special...

When Jenna Howlett, the recently crowned Miss Vermont Teen USA 2019, travels around the country to compete in pageants, the first question in the interview segment is always the same: “What’s it like to live on a farm?” And Jenna always responds: “It’s a lot of fun. I get to work...

“You never know where life will lead you,” chuckles Lorraine Stuart Merrill, a working dairy farmer in Stratham, New Hampshire who is also closing in on a decade as the state’s Commissioner of Agriculture. “There was no grand career plan...

Back in 2009, nine-year-old Beck Johnson of Sunapee, New Hampshire had a dream. Like lots of kids, he dreamt of ice cream—but in this case, he wanted to make it, not just eat it. The young man—the tenth generation farming...

Back before Paul Lisai established his own milking herd and creamery, he worked for several farms in Vermont—and even New Zealand—learning the ropes of the dairy business. Along with all the practical knowledge he gleaned, Paul also landed on a...

The 225 students at The Putney School in southern Vermont drink some of the freshest milk around. They also play a major role in producing it through their work with the school’s 35-cow dairy herd. Milk is far from the...

Greg and Lisa Porter met as students at Cornell University. Both had grown up on dairy farms in different parts of New York and they found themselves in farm finance class together. “He was very smart so I decided I...

Newmont Farm already plays a big role in their community of Fairlee, Vermont. This weekend marks their fifth annual Open Farm event during which they will welcome hundreds of visitors to peek behind the scenes of a 21st Century dairy.  “A lot of people drive by...

Margaret Gladstone grew up on a Vermont dairy farm and loved everything about it. “I was driving a tractor at 8 years old,” she recalls. “It was very family-oriented. We all worked together.” But, she says, her father encouraged her...

It was 1919 when 94 central Vermont farmers joined forces to turn their surplus milk into butter. Each contributed $5 per cow and one cord of wood to fuel the cooperative venture in a creamery in the small town of...

Fall is farmer Steve McCray’s favorite season, even though he barely has the time to appreciate it. “It’s just beautiful here with Mount Tom in the background,” he says of the western Massachusetts farm his parents, Don and Gertrude, bought...