Vermont focuses on education to protect ash trees
State Entomologist for the Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets Judy Rosovsky wraps up an ash log in her lab in Berlin, Vt., Tuesday, May 1, 2018. The log, which was cut in Orange, Vt., and contains evidence of emerald ash borer activity, is kept in a freezer with other samples of trees containing the larvae of the invasive insect to prevent its spread. Following a survey of towns bordering the four-town area where it has been confirmed, officials met in Berlin Wednesday to plot their next steps and discuss details of a quarantine. (Valley News - James M. Patterson) Copyright Valley News. May not be reprinted or used online without permission. Send requests to permission@vnews.com.
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Change comes to the Kingsbury Farm
The Vermont Land Trust bought the 20-acre Kingsbury Farm in 2006 with the help of $100,000 from the Warren Conservation Fund. The farm was sold to the Vermont Foodbank which named Aaron Locker to farm it with the proviso that he provides the food bank with 30,000 pounds of produce a year. Locker subsequently bought the property from the food bank and continued to farm there – until he sold the property to Joe Bossen of Vermont Bean Crafters and All Souls Tortilla on April 9.
The Warren farm will now be known as Cloud Water Farm.
While Locker is no longer part of this farm, he’s not out of the farming business. He and his partner Tonya Howell are now raising herbs and medicinals on a 68-acre parcel of land on Butternut Hill Road. That land was donated to the Mad River Valley Community Fund and the Vermont Land Trust purchased the development rights and Locker purchased the land without development rights as well as the balance of the prope
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