In northern Vermont, “stick season” is the time between the leaves’ dropping and the first snow that sticks— a time that brings its own stark beauty and rituals.
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Life in the Kingdom | Eating the Sun
The Yankee work ethic is alive and well on the Hewitt homestead.
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Life in the Kingdom | Spare Parts
In rural Vermont, finding what you need isn’t always about what’s easy and efficient.
Spring comes to the Hewitt homestead, at first gently, then in a torrent, as the land turns green in pastures and forests.
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Life in the Kingdom | A Fine Season
Lingering cold, slow-running sap, mud up to your ankles… How could life be better?
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Maple Sugaring | Boom or Bust
Maple sugaring has been part of the New England farming landscape for generations. Today, however, technology and big money may alter that forever.
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Life in the Kingdom | A Hard Winter
A homesteading family creates a world unto itself in northern Vermont. First in a year-long series.
Jimmy and Sara Ackermann are trying to do what many feel is nearly impossible in the 21st century: begin a new life working off the land.
Millions of dollars from foreign investors are pouring into Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom. What that means for the region is anyone’s guess—except that it will never be the same.
In a crowded workshop in Little Compton, Rhode Island, a father and son give new life to old stoves that once breathed warmth and fire.
What is the true value of a farm, or of a farmer like Melvin Churchill? Dairy farmers across New England are clinging to a way of life that is quickly disappearing.
The story of a haying arrangement evolved out of mutual needs, in the manner of many rural working arrangements made across generations long ago.