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A cheese trier, a tool used to sample cores of cheese, rests on a wheel of alpine-style Toma in the cheese cave at Robie Farm in Piermont, N.H., on Thursday, Sept. 9, 2021. The cheese is made with raw milk from the farm’s Normandy cross cows. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Piermont family farm ready to celebrate 150 years of changing with the times

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterSeptember 9, 2021

A tractor tills the soil at Brookford Farm in Canterbury adding lime and natural cow manure to enrich the soil on Friday, September 3, 2021.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture encourages soil fertility, crop rotation and managing pests and weeds without the use of chemical fertilizers or pesticides.

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Tough times for NH’s organic farmers

by Cassidy Jensen Concord MonitorSeptember 6, 2021

Bill Cavanaugh, of the Northeast Organic Farmers Association of Vermont, middle, measures the height of a seed packet tower built by Sunrise Farm employees competing under the team name the Proper Gators, from left, Drea Emslie, Ellie Denison, India Noffke, and Trevor Lohr, during the sixth annual Farmer Olympics at Honey Field Farm in Norwich, Vt., on Tuesday, Aug. 31, 2021. Ten teams from organic farms around Vermont participated and the Proper Gators took the bronze award with a hosting team from Honey Knoll winning gold. "At this time of year it's hard for people to get off the farm because they're just working, working, working," said Zea Luce of NOFA VT. "So, it's fun to get together and socialize." (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Farm teams compete in Norwich

by Staff Report September 2, 2021

Lauren Gitlin's French Alpine goat Placer nuzzles with her after she was milked at Villa Villekulla Farm in Tunbridge, Vt., on Sept. 1, 2021. Three goats in the herd became sick this summer after ingesting a wood preservative left behind in their pasture by a Washington Electric Coop contractor about 15 years ago. (Valley News - Geoff Hansen) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Tunbridge goats sickened by years-old chemicals used on electric poles

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterSeptember 2, 2021

Swim instructor Tess Allen, right, teaches a swim lesson for Mia Lorenzo, 6, of Norwich, left, despite the pouring rain at the Storrs Pond pool in Hanover, N.H., Thursday, July, 29, 2021. The pool does not cancel lessons unless there is thunder or lightning. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Record July rainfall affecting farms, forestry, recreation in the Upper Valley

by Claire Potter Valley News Staff WriterJuly 29, 2021

Farmers Chris Gray, left, and Laura Brown in one of the empty cow barns at the Norwich Farm Creamery in Norwich on Monday, March 15, 2021. Photo by Glenn Russell/VTDigger

Vermont Technical College wants Norwich Farm to clear out

by Alex Hanson Valley News Staff WriterJuly 15, 2021

Upper Valley Land Trust is negotiating leases with two farmers to graze animals and grow forage on farmland surrounding the home of the Norwich Farm Creamery in Norwich, Vt. (Valley News - Jennifer Hauck) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Land trust works out deals for grazing on property around Norwich Creamery

by Alex Hanson Valley News Staff WriterMay 27, 2021

Parker Bogardus, 16, of Tunbridge, right, collects sap with help from neighbor Wendy Palthey, of Tunbridge, from 800 buckets in his grandmother’s sugarbush in Tunbridge, Vt., Tuesday, March 23, 2021. Bogardus and his father also have 125 taps on pipeline. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Photos: Sappy stories

by Staff Report March 27, 2021

Steve Geno, of Vermont Creamery, talks with farmer Doug Calderwood, not pictured, as he pumps milk from the bulk tank at Calderwood Goat Dairy in Royalton, Vt., to his truck while on a circuit of farms in Vermont that supply the creamery, Thursday, Feb. 18, 2021. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

Scott creates commission to study viability of Vermont’s agriculture industry

by Kit Norton VtDiggerFebruary 19, 2021

Bill Emmons, of Pomfret, separates six of his Black Angus cows to load them on a trailer for transport from a summer pasture at Maplewood Farm in Woodstock, Vt., to their winter pasture, Friday, Nov. 13, 2020. Emmons and his daughter Cathy Emmons made three trips to move the over 1,300 pound animals to fields at their Cloudland Farm in Pomfret. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.

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Here’s the beef

by Staff Report November 13, 2020