The first time I ever drove through our little town of Reading, it was a few summers ago while I was headed to GMHA to volunteer at an endurance ride. I remember driving through town and then over the big hill to South Woodstock, thinking- wow, this place is breathtakingly beautiful, who gets to live […]
Hey Bear!
Vermonters get wide-eyed and animated when they tell you their bear stories. Most have one. The stories are mostly pretty tame- a bear at the bird feeder or on the back deck looking through a sliding glass door. Sometimes they are a little more emotional, like a chicken coop destroyed and a flock wiped out. […]
One year in, one Muppet down
Just over one year ago- May 20, 2018- we sat on one side of a lawyer’s conference table, wondering if we were making a huge mistake. We were about to sign on the dotted line to take over a 230 acre farm in the middle-of-nowhere Vermont, after weeks of complicated negotiations with the remaining members […]