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Posts/articles by former Vt secretary of agriculture about events/evolutions in Vermont's agricultural history.

November 1988 interview with Drs. Taylor/Foulds of UVM interviews about changes in sugaring technology from the 1940s on. Also mention of Vermont Maple Sugarmakers Assoc. early days.

1988 interview with Helen Nearing re the Nearings' "The Maple Sugaring Book", sugaring details from when they lived in Vermont, also details on their homesteading life in Vermont

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

ch 8 - "Merinos, Morgans, Maple Syrup and Milk" (64-68) covers phases in Vt agriculture from beef to sheep to dairy. Ch 18 "Hunting" (127-131) covers deer, small game, waterfowl. Fishing (132-134) is a brief overview with some notes on best…

Memoir by Green Mountain College prof about homesteading in Vermont including detail on growing/raising/making own food and importance of doing so.

Men pouring maple sap from a horse drawn wagon, which drains into a container in a sugarhouse.

Gert reflects on her passion for farming.

A 1952 advisory bulletin on sheep-farming in Vermont with stats and details on wool market oppty (Boston biggest national market) and a little on lamb meat.

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.