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Four-part series about one family's food cultivation and prepararation in the late 1800s with the Robinsons who lived in Ferrisburgh, where Rokeby Museum now exists. Based on journals, letters and other historical data. Includes details on Merino…

116-122 - "Adjustment to Frontier Conditions" chapter includes good food/agriculture details of late 1770s settlers/homesteaders. Detail on corn, dariy cows, hogs, venison, bear, plumping mills to grind corn before grist mills, vegetable gardens,…

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
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