by Zohar Gitlis | Apr 30, 2020 | April 2020
Photograph by Lisa J. Godfrey How Blue Pepper Farm is turning local wool into local wear Shearing day at Blue Pepper Farm happens on a bitter-cold morning in late February. Smoke curls from Shannon and Tyler Eaton’s farmhouse wood stove. It feels counterintuitive to...
by Shane Mitchell | Jan 17, 2019 | December 2018
photograph by Nancie Battaglia The Thurman farm where creatures live happily ever after A plank carved with the words “Jersey Shore” was nailed to a gated pen in the gambrel-roof barn. A gathering of old souls snuggled in fresh hay, seeking shade on...
by Carleen Madigan | Apr 11, 2018 | June 2018
Photograph by Lisa J. Godfrey At Kate Mountain Farm, a couple transforms a historic resort into a diverse agribusiness Visitors to Kate Mountain Farm, in Vermontville, see the large, furry creatures in the distance and sometimes think they’re sheep; they have...