Sap from sugar maples has been boiled down into syrup since before colonial days. Each spring Vermont’s Shelburne Farms offers visitors a chance to experience this historic process, from selecting and tapping a tree to collecting and boiling sap into syrup. The sugarbush at Shelburne Farms is an out...

The New England Dairy Conference changed venues for 2013 with the Tolland Agricultural Center in Vernon, CT playing host to this year’s event. On March 11, the University of Connecticut College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Department of Animal Science and Cooperative Extension System presen...

When the town of Brooksville, ME passed an ordinance last week allowing town farmers to sell products directly to consumers without the farm having to meet state regulations, the news quickly became national. But it wasn’t really ‘new’ news. Brooksville was the ninth town in Maine to pass a food sov...