
What day is it? It’s Wednesday, right? I could have sworn it was Thursday today. Apparently, I’m really ready for the weekend to be here! Are you looking forward to the long 4th of July weekend? What are your plans? Lunch I packed the best lunch today: homemade salad with crumbled blue cheese, YoBaby 3-in-1 [...]

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With all of this talk about cows, I thought I’d tell you about my pet “cow.” Ok, so Murphy doesn’t look like a cow, but he “grazes” and chews grass on his walks just like one. Plus, with the way he eats, I swear he has four stomachs! Murphy also makes a [...]

If you’ve been reading along with my barnstorming adventures, you probably know quite a bit about organic dairy farming by now. Well, it’s time to tell you a little bit about conventional dairy farms. In addition to visiting four organic dairy farms in Vermont, we also visited one conventional farm. Parent Family Farm is a [...]

Near Lake Champlain, Vermont, just a few miles from the Canadian border, you will find the Choiniere Family Farm. It’s owned and operated by Guy (pronounced “ghee”) and Beth Choiniere. Their children, Mathieu and Hannah, also help out on the farm quite a bit. Since the mid-1940′s, the farm has been in the family and [...]