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Johanna Gardner

Vendors and organizers of the Brattleboro Farmers’ Market pose in this early 1980s photo.

A half-century legacy

Brattleboro Area Farmers’ Market celebrates 50 years of selling fresh, local-grown food and building community

BRATTLEBORO-The Brattleboro Area Farmers' Market (BAFM) is proudly celebrating 50-plus years of bringing locally grown produce to southeastern Vermont, and invites you - whether you are a foodie, a restaurateur, a health enthusiast, or simply someone who loves to be outside - to join us!

We offer the freshest foods and agricultural products that can be produced in our Vermont soils. The market additionally offers our community a welcoming outdoor gathering place, with live music, tables to use while talking with friends or watching the children play in the sandbox, or while enjoying any of a delicious variety of international foods.

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The satisfaction of knitting

A knitter needs the enhanced skills of a carpenter. But unlike in carpentry, every material is slippery, has a bias, can move even after you have attached it to other pieces, and has personality.

Johanna Gardner is the proprietor of Trollhaugen Farm. Her dispatch from the farm recounting the ups and downs of lambing season appeared in these pages in 2022. Last night, I sat down to struggle through "turning the heel." This sounds like some form of torture, and indeed it is,

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During lambing season, action in the barn

A sheep farmer is, by turns, a pasture specialist, a dietician, a midwife, a strategist, and a detective

Feb. 9: At 4:30 a.m., I swear I hear a pounding on the door. There must be a lamb coming or a ewe stuck in labor. I run down the stairs, expecting to see April, our farmhand, but no one is at the door. OK, so I imagined all...

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So simple and so obvious

Those of us who are lucky to grow up in the country learn a lot just from looking at what goes on around us in the garden and on the farm. If you grew up in the '60s, you probably burned your trash out in a bin, but at some point you figured out that was not such a great solution, so you stopped doing it. You probably learned where your ancestors or the previous owner of the property once...

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