When Sarah and Josh Vaillancourt talk about farming, they aren’t just talking about producing food. Sure, that’s part of it—they do raise animals for meat—but that doesn’t occur in a vacuum. For them, farming is about community, it’s about values and it’s about the environment.
At Home in the Adirondacks 2016
The Saranac Experiment
Finding the New Land Trust can be a journey in itself, a series of shrinking roads that wind up from the small hamlet of Saranac. The pavement ends and a grassy lot appears, a sign out front with a map of the 31 trails and rules on etiquette. “Dog doo makes bad ski wax,” for one. A short walk brings you to the Clubhouse, a tidy cottage rising out of the woods. There are ski racks and benches on the green pocket of lawn outside, a woodstove and chairs within, a community bulletin board announcing coming events.
Back to the Future
In the spring of 1964 a portal into the future opened in Flushing Meadows, Queens. For two six-month seasons, the World’s Fair enthralled millions of visitors with an optimistic vision of better living through science and technology. The space race was in its early days—the Soviet Union had sent the first man into orbit in 1961, an achievement soon matched by the United States—and exhibits like General Motors’ Futurama II promised equally amazing feats of human ingenuity here on Earth: Underwater hotels! Deserts transformed into fertile fields! Road-building robots that would rip through the jungle with laser beams! The home of tomorrow featured appliances that “automatically emerge from bare walls, floors, ceilings as they are needed by the housewife.” (Apparently, evolving gender roles were beyond the scope of imagination.)
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