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#FarmLove – Maple Grove Farm – County Fairs
The Orleans County Fair in northeastern Vermont has all the classic activities: tractor, oxen, pony and horse pulls; 4-H show competitions; a bustling poultry and rabbit house and prize-winning homegrown vegetable displays. Like other similar agriculture fairs, it is an...
#FarmLove – Lucas Dairy – Thankful for Mentors
Jon Lucas grew up in New Hampshire helping out on his family’s small beef and hay operation. It was not their main source of income, but slowly and surely it directed him towards what would become his. He chose to...
#FarmLove – The Ilsley Farm
Most kids look forward to ice cream for their birthday, but Lisa Ilsley’s birthday several years ago included a surprise visit to an ice cream stand that would ultimately fulfill her goal of making and selling her own ice cream....
#Farmlove – Grafton County Farm
Every Cabot farm is unique in some way, but Don Kimball manages a member farm that he believes is among the last of its kind. Grafton County Farm in North Haverill is part of a New Hampshire county jail operation...
#FarmLove – George Family Farm
There are pluses and minuses to farming in a popular summer vacation destination. The George Family is in its third generation running a dairy farm a few hundred yards from Cayuga Lake in the Fingers Lakes region of New York....
#Farmlove – The Scent of Christmas at Farmer Hodge’s
At 90, dairy farmer Bev Hodge knows a few things. A cold November and December is a good thing, she says while sitting by the woodstove: “That makes the wreaths sell faster.”Bev had just come in from cutting the brush...
FarmLove: Two Farm Market Stores
The town of Woodstock is located in what is known as the “quiet corner” of northeastern Connecticut. The tight-knit rural community values its farms, proudly claiming the most dairy farms of any town in the state. This year, two of those farming...
#FarmLove – Doton Farm
Just behind the sugarhouse at Doton Farm, a brook flows downhill carrying clear, fresh water over mossy stones. In the winter and early spring, the cold water is used to efficiently cool the reverse osmosis system that jumpstarts the process...
#Farmlove – Dellavale Farm – City Kids on the Farm
When 15-year-old Kiara Perkins came from Queens to spend the summer working on Dellavale Farm in Pattersonville three hours north of the city, she brought 10 pairs of overalls with her. “I didn’t know what farming was like,” recalls Kiara,...
Farmlove – Dairy Grazing Apprenticeship Program
It’s no newsflash that the average age of farmers around the U.S. hovers close to 60 years old, with fewer younger folks entering the profession every year. But at the Corse Farm Dairy in Whitingham, Vermont, there is a double rainbow of promise for the future of family farming. ...
#Farmlove – Conant’s Riverside Farm
The holiday season is rich with tradition, as are many Cabot farms. At Conant’s Riverside Farms, the Conant family proudly claims six generations of tradition celebrated both year-round and at Christmas-time. Founded in a fertile valley in Richmond, Vermont in 1854,...
#FarmLove – CoBar Dairy
Tammy and Mike Barnes met through Future Farmers of America while they were in high school. Several decades, one farm, three kids and five grandkids later, they maintain an enduring love for the outdoors and a firm belief that a...