Wet Weather Interrupts Farm Production

Vermont’s wettest spring on record is making it difficult for farmers to harvest their first round of crops, and agriculture officials say the ground is so saturated that it may not recover this season. To report damage, call 211  

Farmers’ Markets: VT Tops The List

It’s the start of the farmers’ market season in Vermont. Many markets opened the first week of May with others opening throughout the month, offering seedlings for gardens, preserved foods, and last winter’s storage crops.
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Farms Struggle To Dispose Of Plastic

We tend to think of farm fields as bucolic, natural landscapes. But farms increasingly rely on plastic to store hay and silage, to build temporary greenhouses and to pot plants.