Browse Items (40 total)

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…

The bulk of the hunting materials focus on deer hunting in Vermont and Maine with additional interviews on moose, bear, turkey and other game birds. The interviews include information on habitat, strategy, and technique, traditional knowledge, social…

Jan-Feb 1927 (p. 101) Overview of Vermont turkey business ,which were highly regarded apparently in large cities. Alos encourages farmers to learn from Wisconsin farm using incubators.

In the 1940’s, Robert M. Carter, of the University of Vermont Agricultural Experiment Station, conducted a study of hay harvesting techniques and costs in Vermont. This collection documents that work which resulted in several published studies and…

This collection documents the history of maple research at the University of Vermont. Included in the collection is a selection of photographs from the archives of the Proctor Maple Research Center (PMRC), a field station of the Vermont Agricultural…

interview with Stanley Wilson, Derby, 1982 with detail on haying in 1930s on, p. 61-67 buttermaking

interview (1982) with Elaine Anderson of Newport details farm chores and typical food eaten on farm (p.12-15)

Within Vermont section: Back-to-the-Land movement: 49-50, OH 3-47 - outline of 1987 interviews indicate snippets of food/farming info (p. 14 on) re: food buyers clubs -> co-ops & start of NOFA, challenges of small farms/regs on dairy, p. 18 and 21.

cassette only interview about Native American maple tools (p. 12)