Enjoy Vermont-made buttermilk and support a farm that supports the earth. Take a tour of Butterworks Farm: Watch this Video and read more about Butterworks Farm here.
From Misty Knoll Farms website: Misty Knoll Farms is a family-owned and operated farm producing the finest naturally raised free-range turkeys and naturally-raised chickens available from Vermont. As stewards of Vermont’s working landscape, we treat our farm as a precious, irreplaceable resource, and follow sustainable farming practices to ensure our cropland will be productive for future generations. We raise our birds with the utmost care, feeding them whole grain, free of antibiotics and animal by-products. Our chickens range free in spacious, specially designed enclosures.
Misty Knoll Farms Chicken is now available at the Hannah Grimes Marketplace.
By Bonnie Hudspeth, Winter 2008
Portions of this text were originally published in Local Banquet Magazine
Vermont entrepreneurs are using maple sap in new ways – and waiting to see how the climate changes.
Although Vermont led all states in maple syrup production in 2006 with 460,000 gallons-more than 32 percent of the maple syrup produced in the United States-the threat of a Vermont without maple syrup is real. Tim Perkins at the University of Vermont’s Proctor Maple Research Station in Underhill has found that the sugaring season-formerly 30 days in length-has been shifting earlier in the spring by a week (on average) over the past 40 years, thereby reducing the standard season by 6 to 10%. And many sugar producers have already experienced the impact of changing weather on sap production.
But the threat to maples hasn’t stopped Vermont entrepreneurs from using maple sap in innovative ways. Here are three local businesses that have taken the maple syrup once reserved for Sunday morning pancakes and used it in variations never before imagined: http://www.localbanquet.com/issues/years/2008/winter08/beyondmaple_w08.html.
From Butterworks Farm‘s website: We’ve been farming organically for twenty-five years and are always willing to share our knowledge and experience. We are totally self-sufficient. We grow all the food our cows eat, including corn, oats, barley, soybeans, and alfalfa. All of our cows were born here on the farm. We have a closed herd- which means we don’t buy cows from other farms.
Since 1975, during our first days as homesteaders with just a family cow, we have made our yogurt right here on the farm. We use only our own milk to produce this delicious yogurt. Our soils are sweet and mineralized. The extra special “nutty” flavor of our whole yogurt begins with the land we farm.
Butterworks Farm Yogurt is now available at the
Hannah Grimes Marketplace.
Yarden of Eatin' 