Diamond in the Rough Situated on the Sunrise River, Jewel Lane Farm is a woodsy, relatively flat acreage with a hilly pasture near the house. There are a 60’ by 24’ lambing barn, a 40’ by 60’ machine shed, and a 16’ by 48’ greenhouse. Soils are sandy with a little peat along the river. […]
Woods’ Cider Mill
A family tradition Springfield, Vermont “In the 1960’s we used to sell big cider jelly jars to hippies, now we sell small jars to yuppies,” chuckles Willis Wood, owner of Wood’s Cider Mill. On land first settled by Willis’ family in 1798, he and his wife, Tina, carry on the diversified farm operation in Weathersfield, […]
Perish Farm
Making the Transition Lifelong farmers Roy and Theresa Perish and their five children raise livestock on their 280-acre dairy farm in Long Prairie, Minnesota. However, it was not until a dry summer left their grass too short to make hay in 1988 that they transitioned to rotationally grazing their cattle. That summer, Roy decided to […]
Sheep Sorrel Farm
Farming the Spirit In Welch, Minnesota, one woman finds a way to release physical energy that she cannot find in a classroom. Beth Slocum, a teacher at Mounds Park Academy, spends her summers on her farm and commutes to Welch to check on her flock several times a week during the school year. “As a […]
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