Jeff and Wendy Gibson produce and sell raw milk from the Schoolhouse
Dairy in White Creek, N.Y. They are firm believers in the health benefits of the product, which is the subject of considerable debate. The Gibsons also contend that raw milk provides small farmers with a chance for economic survival.
6/10/2013
Album ID: 1667115
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Pownal Vineyard
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Jim Boutin harvests grapes at the Old Military Road Vineyard in Pownal with the help of John McCann of Montpelier.
10/1/2011
Album ID: 1333476
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Sanders at Clear Brook
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Sen. Bernard Sanders, I-Vt., meets with Mount Anthony Union High School students enrolled in the Twilight Program. The students were working at Clear Brook Farm in Shaftsbury.
8/10/2011
Album ID: 1300808
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Strawberry Season
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Members of the Jomaa family pick strawberries Monday at the Apple Barn in Bennington.
6/21/2011
Album ID: 1271798
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Beloved barn
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Wendy Hall stands beside a barn built by the late Mark Stratton, a near and dear friend, along Breese Hollow Road in Hoosick, N.Y. The board and batten barn, with its elongated proportions and steeply pitched roof, gave Stratton pleasure in his later years, according to Hall. Despite being sick with cancer he was able to enjoy his yard and his barns, she said.
4/14/2011
Album ID: 1216373
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Maple Open House
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Sugarmakers at the Merck Forest and Farmland Center in East Rupert tend an evaporator Friday. Sugarhouses throughout Bennington County will open their doors to the public Saturday and Sunday, March 19 and 20. For locations and times, visit www.benningtonmaple.org.
3/18/2011
Album ID: 1195128
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Farmhand
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James Morgan, a local farmhand, pauses as he removes snow Monday from along Route 346 in North Pownal. Ive got to find a place to put it before we get some more, Morgan said.
1/31/2011
Album ID: 1162712
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Harvesting the sun
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Beatrice Berle, owner of the Berle Farm in Hoosick, N.Y., advocates for solar energy during a press conference Friday. Behind her is an array of solar panels recently installed on her farm. Chris Gibson, the Republican Congressman-elect for New York's 20th District, also spoke.
12/17/2010
Album ID: 1137259
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Barn damage
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Melvin Lawrence of Polymeadows Farm in Shaftsbury stands beside a barn that lost half its roof to a gust of wind during a storm Wednesday.
12/2/2010
Album ID: 1127686
Photos by Peter Crabtree
Tractor Trailers
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A parade of tractors rumbled through Pownal on Sunday.
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