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 ..."
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Only the Beginning
By: Ben Hewitt
"What I’m saying is, you harvest a potato. You kill an animal."
Queen Anne's Revenge
By: Sas Stewart
Photograph: Dylan Griffin
Summer Cocktails, Session #3
Take the Quiz!
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 Is Beauty in It
By: Carolinne Griffin
Photographs: Dylan Griffin
"Anyone who has ever wanted to unapologetically run around barefoot and raise their voices in the name of political justice or for the sake of cheap art — you have a creative home. "
Watermelon, Watercress and Orange Blossom Water Salad
By: Tessa Holmes
Photographs: Dylan Griffin
"The scent of orange flower blossoms will always remind me of my grandmother's garden..."
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)."
Lasting Impressions
By: Keith Morrill
Photographs: Dylan Griffin
"The key ... is in finding the balance between artisanship and mass assembly, in defining and creating an ethos of entrepreneurship that pledges responsibility to the environment, to the consumer and to community ..."
Shacksbury Sling
By: Sas Stewart
Photographs: Dylan Griffin
Summer Cocktails, Session #2
This cocktail brings out the summer in us.
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."
Best Dressed! Omega Green Dressing
By: Tessa Holmes
Photographs: Dylan Griffin
Great over any green salad, as a topping to cooked grains, and as a spread or dipping sauce.
Keeping Secrets: Camping and the Beauty of Solitude
By: Nathanael Asaro
Moving to the Country
By Sas Stewart
Photographs: Dylan Griffin
Summer Cocktails. Session #1
Bust out the blowtorch. This cocktail's gone country.