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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...