Will Raap Will Raap moved to Burlington in 1980 to work for Garden Way. Just three years later, he started his own business, Gardener s Supply, in a former carpet factory in Winooski. In 1986, Raap relocated Gardener s Supply to the Burlington side of the river, on a piece of land in the Intervale. Raap built his business at the site of an old slaughterhouse on property he leased from dairy farmer Rena Caulkins. A dump was behind her house; a car junkyard occupied land that would soon become the Intervale Community Farm, other organic farms, and greenhouses. You wouldn t go down there after dark, Raap recalled of the Intervale at that time. It was the wrong side of town.