By: Margaret Albee
Photograph: Dylan Griffin
"At every turn I wonder if I am cut out for it. Tough enough. Tender enough."
All in Folk
Nothing in Particular (or maybe everything specifically)
By: Ben Hewitt
Photograph: Dylan Griffin
"I believe that Luke is a genius, although I suspect his particular brand of genius was once much more common than it is today."
Coffin Windows
By: Chad Abramovich
"A lot of people, Vermonters or flatlanders, seem to be flummoxed about these peculiarly slanted windows. That’s because their orientational existence isn’t found in any other state ..."
Jeh Kulu Honors Black Lives at Vermont's Dance and Drum Festival
By: Kimberly Caterino
Photographs: Dylan Griffin + Jean Luc Dushime
"It is a privilege to jump into another culture’s mode of expression ..."
Drinking It Raw
By: Julia Clancy
Photographs: H.B. Wilcox
"To Henry, the crux of raw dairy is this: know the milk, know the animals, know the farmer."
The Meeting of the Gourds
By: Margaret Albee
Photograph: Dylan Griffin
"No matter that her child's body is battling at the gates of womanhood. She holds on with an iron grip to the fierce imagination of a babe."
Sharon Beal: A Champion of USA-Made
By: Carolinne Griffin
Photographs: Dylan Griffin
"I know most of my vendors... they're all making superior products but they're doing it around their families, at home, or out of a barn."
Living As We Always Hoped We Could
By: Jeremy Knoll
"I am not meant to live in the most densely populated state in the country. I am not comfortable amid the strip malls and traffic. I feel the absence of the land I loved most. "
What I Miss About a Vermont Summer
By: Kelsey Stetson
Photograph: Dylan Griffin
"Dirt roads are the best. Not for your car, not for mud season, and not for town maintenance budgets, but they are the best."
The Hanksville Mud Bog
By: Carolinne Griffin
Photographs: Dylan Griffin
"There’s none of the necessary roughness I might have expected from a monster truck scene ..."
Susan
By: Margaret Albee
Photograph: Dylan Griffin
"Even the choking diesel smell that comes in dirty black puffs
Is a comfort, the same way my daddy’s chainsaw used to sing a lullaby."
There Was No One Else
By: Ben Hewitt
Photographs: Penny Hewitt
"I think most of us long for something more meaningful than simple social community, if even we’re fortunate enough to have that (and plenty don’t)."
The Most Important Answer of All
By: Ben Hewitt
Photographs: Dylan Griffin
"We don’t tend to talk the big picture stuff ... but rather the day-in, day-out minutia of our respective lives and the surrounding community, which is, in fact, pretty big to us:"
Summer Color
By: Jessica Lewis Stevens
Photographs: Dylan Griffin
"I like to think turning summer flowers into colors and sewing them into quilts warms more than just our limbs when we’re hovering close to the woodstove in January."
The Heavens Have No Reply
By: Ben Hewitt
Photographs: Dylan Griffin
"Some people believe that cows use their horns to communicate with the heavens."
High Spirits
By: A. Jay Dubberly
Photographs: Dylan Griffin
“We dreamed this up and now it exists in the world.” Sas Stewart
I Imagine
By: Ben Hewitt
Photograph: Dylan Griffin
It is my curse that I often cannot stop imagining the lives of people I meet, even fleetingly.
Roost Events: Setting the Community Table
By: Carolinne Griffin
Photographs: Dylan Griffin
“It’s really nice to land in a place and have a farming connection because the people that I meet through that are always amazing, and hardworking.“