Food & Agriculture

Vermont Public staffers celebrated the fall season — and the year of the camelids — at a wool spinning class, apple orchard and potato plot.

The Vermont gardening season is often too wet or too dry, and it is always too short. We love it anyway.

The 3-acre flower maze — like a corn maze, but no corn — provides a financial backstop for Hoolie Flats Farm, an organic vegetable farm in East Calais.

The survey — focused on farms not covered by a grassroots farmworker labor and housing rights program — shows a vast majority of Spanish-speaking immigrant dairy farmworkers in Vermont make below minimum wage, work six to seven days a week and are hurt on the job.

Local entrepreneur Harmony Edosomwan is taking part in a 10-week program through New York University intended to lift up Black business owners. Her catering business, Harmony's Kitchen, serves authentic soul food from its Winooski hub.

In the woods of a Windsor County town, artists leave behind their smartphones and embrace working and living off the land. While in residence with The Sable Project, the artists also showcase their works-in-progress at community events, and share locally-produced food.

Dozens of volunteer dog trackers will take to the woods over the next few months to help hunters recover wounded game from Vermont’s forests.

The survey also says roughly 3,500 acres of farmland was damaged. A new state fund will help farmers with some of the recovery. And, the weather over the next four to six weeks could help salvage some crops.

The elder Lydia Clemmons was one of the original owners of Clemmons Family Farm, an icon of African American cultural heritage in Charlotte, Vermont. She died at the age of 101.

Vermont filmmaker Rocket's latest video series, 'Small Vermont Businesses in Small Vermont Towns,' features a profile on Irasburg's Nelson Farms.