When Earl Ransom was growing up, milking cows at his family's Rockbottom Farm in Strafford, there were 24 dairy farms in town. Now his second-generation.
Strafford Organic Creamery sells its milk products skim, 1%, 2%, whole and more in returnable glass bottles. Running low, the business’s CEO is asking consumers to return their bottles, or the farm will start dumping milk it can’t sell.
New support groups are meant to allow farmers to break through the isolation of their workplaces and talk to farmers elsewhere in their communities who are struggling with the same issues, and maybe share a new strategy or two.
SOUTH ROYALTON Geo Honigford refurbishes old houses now. It’s like meditation.“I buy houses that are uninhabitable, and then I tear them completely apart, and then I put them all the way back together,” he said.Honigford owned Hurricane Flats, a.