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Posted on June 28, 2013
If you’re heading north on Route 25 along the Connecticut River, you will pass through the hamlet of East Corinth. You may not notice, since the General Store is identical to other barn-red stores in the Upper Valley to the east of Vermont’s Green Mountains. On Memorial Day weekend, making a right t...
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Melody Reynolds 
Posted on June 28, 2013
A true New England family farm, Baffoni’s Poultry is a third generation poultry farm. The family works long hours and days to provide the public with the freshest poultry and eggs possible. Donald Baffoni has a passion for his birds. “The well kept coops and care that is given to the birds during th...
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Joe Parzych 
Posted on June 28, 2013
The experimental White Coal Farm was owned by the Turners Falls Company. This corporation was founded by Alvah Crocker, who also founded Turners Falls, a village in the town of Montague, MA. Crocker used the term “White Coal” in reference to cheap water power produced by the power canal by the Turne...
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Katie Navarra 
Posted on June 28, 2013
Grazing livestock have the potential to maximize or exceed their daily intake requirements ultimately leading to increased production than if fed stored forages. “Well-managed pastures are generally higher in quality than any other forage,” Karen Hoffman, Resource Conversationalist with the USDA Nat...
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Steve Wagner 
Posted on June 21, 2013
“The world’s most widely adopted biotech trait, Roundup Ready® soybeans, is set to go off patent soon in the U.S. — the last applicable Monsanto-owned patent is expected to expire in 2014.” In cutting-to-the-chase fashion, the Monsanto press release’s first line explains it very clearly. Other thing...
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Laura Rodley 
Posted on June 21, 2013
Happy plants, one hundred and sixty varieties, both medicinal and cooking herbs, flowers and vegetables. That’s what Lauren Caprio and Danielle Smith of Bear Root Herb Farm sell to their customers at their roadside stand in front of their Florence home on Sundays and on Tuesdays at the Tuesday North...
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Laura Rodley 
Posted on June 14, 2013
Over 50 heifers adorned in garlands were led in the 12th annual Strolling of the Heifers that occurred on Saturday, June 8 in Brattleboro, VT. Mules, Morgans, tractors, clowns, alpacas and marching bands dressed in cow costumes took part, cheered by viewers approximately 50,000 strong who lined the ...
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Jane Primerano 
Posted on June 14, 2013
On a long farm lane in the shadow of the Green Mountain National Park, a couple of city kids enjoyed the pleasure of a tire swing and kittens in the hayloft. Their mother, Norah, said the kids were given a choice between the farm and the beach for a late summer mini-vacation and picked the farm. For...
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Laura Rodley 
Posted on June 7, 2013
When Sorrel Hatch was four years old and her brother, Rhys, was two, their parents Clifford and Patricia Hatch bought a ‘fixer upper’ home in Gill, MA. It was 1989. “It was a wreck,” Sorrel recalls, now 28. They were living at their aunt’s in Whately while it was being fixed up. They were so excited...
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