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Vermont Life August 1957: Cornwall wheat farmer Justin Brande and whole wheat bread made by baker, Steve Baker

Green Mountain Whittlin's VOL LIII 20: tale of growing up on "self-sustaining" farm and eating dandelion greens, marsh marigolds, dandelion wine, lamb's quarters, garden greens.

Story about Ben Gleason, grain farmer of Bridport with sidebar on history of Vermont grain-growing

Jan-Feb 1927 (p. 139-141): background and advice on sugaring and marketing of maple. Ref to five-year-old Vt Maple Co-op to encourage farmers to make syrup rather than sugar and grades were set.

Photograph of cows and milking machines in a barn. Circa 1959.

View of an outdoor sugar making operation. Pictured are sap buckets, a boiler over a wood-fire, logs for the fire, and an axe for cutting wood.

Deer hanging upside down surrounded by about twenty hunters. Many of the hunters are holding rifles. Small tent is set up in the background.

Hunting is as fundamental to Vermont's cultural heritage as dairy farming, and its lineage reaches back beyond the arrival of the first European settlers. But as Vermont has changed, knowledge of hunting is no longer universal and some Vermonters are…

This is the largest body of material in the archive, and it includes VFC folklorist Gregory Sharrow's dissertation research on the culture of farm life, research for a radio series on contemporary farm experience, research for the exhibit "Making…