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Various references to food eaten at farms and taverns, including farmstead cheesemaking.

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,…

1999 - Funded by Vermont Office of Minority Health. Dawnland is a nonprofit org for American Indian people in Vt. Recipes include healthier choices plus some info on indigenous foods and tradtl recipes like cattail pollen flapjacks, wild green salad,…

Gert reflects on her passion for farming.

1982 - Written by a dairy farmer in Tinmouth with early history of Vermont settlement and information on foodways (unsourced) through community suppers, sugaring, hunting to "ethnic" contributions . Includes recipes from acorn bread to chicken pie…

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

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

A woman tips a metal bucket to the edge of large metal container whose hose leads to a bulk milk tank at a creamery or dairy farm.

A 1950 advisory bulletin, now that 20% of Vermont families have "freezing facilities", on how to freeze, retain nutrition of frozen vegetables and varieties best to freeze.

1970 - shows increasing cultural diversity of foodways with recipes from different ethnic groups including German butter dumplings, yogurt and meatball soup "from an Armenian friend," La Stufata (Italian pot roast made with dried mushrooms),…