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Praise the Lard…

And the pasture-raised pigs that provide it! We have been celebrating lard lately, after making some fresh batches and coming into the season of more time for cooking and baking.  And the bounty of sweet potatoes has one farmer craving a deep fryer so we could make sweet potato fries in our lard. With the prompt […]

Wall Street Journal Suggests “Vacation on a Vermont Farm”

  The Wall Street Journal did a feature on 5 Vermont Farmstays in their Off Duty Travel section.  Check out the entire story and see our profile, including highlighting a unique opportunity to enjoy world-class chamber music on the farm through out partnership with Scrag Mountain Music. “A hands-on animal farm: Watch the goats exhibit […]

Goat Appreciation at Green Mountain Girls Farm

Journalist/Blogger Stacey Brandt stumbled across our farm and one of our farm experiences and wrote about her time at the farm for Seven Days.  She captured the reactions we receive from so many visitors from near and far.  Glad she and her friend enjoyed the visit and were able to craft such an enjoyable story. […]

Journal de Montreal – Great weekend trip

Travel writer Marie-France Bornais included a farmstay as a key piece of her weekend trip from Quebec.  With family from Québec, it is always a treat to have Canadians at the farm.  Nous aimons les visiteurs du Canada, les francophones et les anglophones.   Pour les francophones de prés et de loin, profitez de cet article […]

May Days

Thursday… volunteers bolstered our reserve and helped us gain more road frontage back from chervil and more progress was made on Saturday. Thanks Liz, Martha and Molly! More folks are coming this Thursday, do join if you can (for any sliver or chunk of time from 3:30-6:30. Spring abundance brought a bright array of greens […]

Eat, Stay and Be Part of the Farm Experience

Alaina Pinto from Local 22/Local 44 broadcasted live from the farm on March 27th while experiencing a bit of life on the farm. You can also find the pieces on the local Fox/ABC station!         Here are six of the segments she did that share some the farm experiences people can book […]

Spring and Agritourism coming to the Farm

While fellow farmers and folks from Rural Vermont testified at the State House regarding modifications to the Raw Milk bill, we completed mandated heard health tests for TB and brucellosis. The goat kids are thriving, learning to eat hay and browse and tanking up on milk, as evidenced by aggressive growth rates and adorable milk […]

Vermont Life features Lattes on the Hoof

   In the Summer edition of Vermont Life, our on farm experience of Lattes on the Hoof is featured, right next to Heady Topper.  Taste sensations for all.       Green Mountain Girls, a farm in Northfield, may lay claim to the most direct farm-to-mouth culinary experience – Melissa Passanen writes in Vermont Life […]

Heritage Radio on Tourism and Raw Milk in the News

This week we had 2 fun news pieces. Steph from Fox 44 did a story about possible changes to the Raw Milk law that Rural Vermont is seeking on behalf of farmers.  The changes sought include some ability to sell small amounts of raw milk cheese, yogurt, butter and ice cream (the piece we are most interested in) […]

Sharing the Farm Experience

This week, an Associated Press reporter captured well our small farm’s effort at not only producing sustainable, high quality food, but also providing related hands-on farm experiences, as both a way to offer people a deeper understanding of how their food can be raised and as a way to make a small farm viable. Her […]