It was only in college, removed from my family’s cooking traditions for the first time, that I came to realize just how much of my own...

Over the past ten years, “organic” has become a buzzword in the American food industry, with pesticide-free produce replacing...

Most new farmers rely on marketing to differentiate themselves from their peers, but for farmers of an older generation, self-promotion...

Although supplying milk to cooperatives ensures many dairy farmers continued business, pursuing independent processing and distribution...

Although Vermont has lost many small and mid-size family farms over the last century, a new awareness about sustainable agriculture is...

Despite ever-expanding local and organic sections in grocery stores, bustling farmers markets, and long waiting lists at farm-to-table...

Vermont may be known for rolling apple orchards, rustic dairy barns, and flowing maple syrup, but certainly not golden fields of wheat....

In order to avoid the often uncertain, hand-to-mouth existence that is traditional farming, two enterprising, small-scale growers craft...

Vermont’s economy depends in large part on tourists who associate the state with farming and farming with a calm country life, those who...

Although the number of sustainably managed farms in Vermont continues to grow, few of them produce at a scale large enough to supply...