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Kate Bowen

Refugees of our working landscape

Refugees of our working landscape

We’re really in the last stages of our farming crisis in Vermont. We want our products cheap, and we want all of it out of sight and earshot.

On our diversified farm, we produce meat, eggs, hay, sap, and forest products using regenerative agricultural practices. Because we aren't able to afford much land in Windham County, the haying and forest products that we harvest involve using other people's land.

This activity creates a lot of abutting neighbors who need to continuously be educated and informed, and who like to be involved in what a working landscape looks, smells, and sounds like.

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Our farmers need slaughterhouse law to remain

My family owns a small, diversified farm that sells meat, hay, sap, and forest products. Last month, I participated in Rural Vermont's Small Farm Action Day at the Statehouse and had the privilege to share our concerns about Act 64, the new water-quality law, and the draft Required Agricultural...

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