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Green Mountain Whittlin's LVII (2006), 37: very detailed description of food on Vermont farm (location not specified) in early 1900s: apples, butchering, baking, foraging

Story on Duclos-Thompson Farm where Tom Duclos, who grew up nearby on a dairy farm, and now raises sheep. Includes history of sheep-farming in Vermont.

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

2007 - Hooked on history of Shelburne Farms with themed Vermont ingredient chapters and history of each (milk, maple, lamb, venison, etc.) Some twists on classic recipes but mostly modern takes with local ingredients.

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…

February 1979 interview includes daily farm chores in Franklin Cty, milk sales, butter-making, sugar-smuggling during war

Personal history of farming family with Finnish roots - good details on food pages 4-5, 7-8: how fed large family in Proctor VT with garden, foraging, milking/butter, home-brewed Kallia (molasses, hops, water) on page 7

2000 - Self-published memoir starting in 1890 of author's grandmother on farm in Hydeville with daily farm life and recipes like salt pork with dandelion or cowslip greens (29) and butchering details (107) with recipes for sausage, head cheese,…

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

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