by Sanne Kure-Jensen
Sap from sugar maples has been boiled down into syrup since before colonial days. Each spring Vermont’s Shelburne Farms offers visitors a chance to experience this historic process, from selecting and tapping a tree to collecting and boiling sap into syrup. The sugarbush at Shelburne Farms is Continue reading
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The New England Dairy Conference
by George Looby, DVM
The New England Dairy Conference changed venues for 2013 with the Tolland Agricultural Center in Vernon, CT playing host to this year’s event. On March 11, the University of Connecticut College of Agriculture and Natural Resources, Continue reading
A small pebble makes big waves
by Sally Colby
When the town of Brooksville, ME passed an ordinance last week allowing town farmers to sell products directly to consumers without the farm having to meet state regulations, the news quickly became national. Continue reading
Understanding and preparing for animal activism
“You’ve all seen some of these videos that have made their way through the internet, on the evening news, and the morning news. There have been 24 of these undercover videos just since 2006, and a lot of them have been relatively close to home,” said Cindy Weimer, Director of Industry Image Continue reading
