Category: Producer of the Month

Producer of the Month Articles

Every farm is unique, every farmer is an individual. But for the most part, as Tim Hughes-Muse of Laughing Child Farm jokes, there are usually a couple of things they […]
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Champlain Orchards

October 1, 2024
Bill Suhr purchased sixty acres of land in Shoreham, VT, at the young age of twenty-seven. He’d been coming to Vermont during summers his whole life to visit his grandmother, […]
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Our four business core values are: Integrity, Balance, Harmony, and Fun.-Excerpt from Old Friends Farm’s Holistic Goal Missy Bahret and Casey Steinberg founded Old Friends Farm over twenty years ago […]
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If you’ve ever had Maplebrook Farm mozzarella, you know they are pillowy bundles of milky white softness. They’re made just on the other side of the mountain on Route 9 […]
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Trish Naudon Thomas always has two notebooks on her bedside table: one for lyrics and one for herbal remedy ideas. She and her husband, Chris Thomas, are both rock musicians […]
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Coffee  is truly a global connector. Almost the entire population of planet Earth could be divided into two groups: coffee consumers and coffee suppliers. These days there’s more gray area […]
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As a very young man in the 1980s, Larry Plesent started a successful window washing business. He was driven, energetic, bright, and creative. It seems the only thing that kept […]
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Dosa: crispy, chewy, fresh off the griddle, nutritious, gluten free since the year 800 AD, vegan, fermented, digestible, and delicious. It’s the traditional, convenient, dinner-in-a-pinch South Indian street food that […]
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Little Lad’s popcorn has been a fan favorite within Maine’s state borders for twenty-five-plus years. It was created by Maria Fleming, a young mother and business owner in a small […]
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PRODUCER OF THE MONTH FEATURE: January 2024 by Ruth Garbus When Emily Schwerin-Whyte and Rebecca Hamilton took over from their father as co-CEOs in 2018, the Badger Company was at […]
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Maple City Candy

December 1, 2023
When Adam Goss bought Maple City Candy from the Metayer family in 2021 as an investment for his growing family, he called his aunt, Heather Tanner, and asked her to […]
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Hidden Bean Bakeshop is about saying Yes, not No: Yes to delicious food, to health, to dessert(!), and to an abundant, beautiful local food system. Kelsey Baumgarten’s cookies, cakes, cupcakes, […]
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