Robb Family Farm and Sugarhouse, Robb Family courtesy photo
Vermont Business Magazine Maple sugaring – as it is called among locals - is a labor of love, and often, as in the Robb Family Farm and Sugarhouse’s case, it is the financial lifeblood that sustains the century-old family farm in Brattleboro, Vermont. The season for harvesting and boiling the maple sap into thick, sweet maple syrup is a short critical one, lasting only several weeks right before Spring.
The Robbs sell Vermont maple syrup, maple candy and maple cream online and in their country store located next to their sugar house. A good portion of their sales is made during that time from people visiting their sugarhouse producing enough money to cover their operating costs for the year. But the coronavirus upended their dependable revenue stream.
9 & 10 News
February 4, 2021
Each month, David Lyden will dive into an unsolved crime in northern Michigan.
On the debut episode, we head to the northern part of Emmet County for a case dating back more than 50 years.
In the summer of 1968, the peaceful village of Good Hart was the scene of one of the most gruesome and notorious crimes in northern Michigan history when six members of the Robison family were murdered in their vacation home.