Winter 2016 Online

Local Eating with Spring on the Horizon

“There is an awkward time at the end of winter before the early season produce is ready. By the end of February we have been eating our storage vegetables for

Taking Our Local Food on the Road

Jonnah and her family, farmers at Vermont Valley Community Farm, may take time away from their farm in the winter, but not from their food.

wiFinding Love on the Vegetable Farm

“Love on the vegetable farm then doesn’t look all that different from any other kind of love except that it exists largely outside the home under big blue skies and

Winter Travel & the Evolution of a Family Farm

While farmers’ winters aren’t exactly “time off,” Farmer Lauren makes a point to travel during this time. Here, she reflects on a farm-stay in Iceland that turned out to be

The Winter Sun

“All of a sudden this lazy winter sun is signaling to me it is time to take it easy. Time to slow down the hectic pace we have been on

A Year on the Farm

“2016 was a year of new, and of old, of constants and of change. We had higher highs and lower lows. It wasn’t always pretty and it certainly wasn’t simple,

Fall Gratitude on the Vegetable Farm

“In this fourth year as a vegetable farmer, I’m beginning to recognize a different type of shift in the seasons. Not just the food, the daylight or the workload. For

First Frost

Waking up early to experience the first frost of the season with Farmer Rufus Haucke of Keewaydin Farms.