Food Connects Newsletter

Firebelly Farm

Firebelly is in its second year providing wholesale and CSA produce from the Brookline valley. We only use organic methods, and are chasing big goals like reducing tillage through cover cropping in permanent bed systems and perennial pathways, sourcing biodiesel for the tractor, and keeping local food affordable and accessible.

Aaron Rucker
firebellyvt@gmail.com

Walker Farm

Today, Walker Farm has evolved into a retail operation that prides itself in the quality of premium products and friendly service that have kept the farm successful and respected. Nineteen greenhouses grow over 1200 annual and perennial flowers started from seed as well as hundreds of varieties of propagated plants from around the world. Display gardens and the scenic views of the Connecticut River valley provide a splendid backdrop for a brilliant rainbow of spring bloomers offered for sale in the farm's garden center. Thirty acres of carefully nurtured land supply the seasonal farmstand with flavorful, certified organic vegetables and fruit from June until Thanksgiving. The daily harvesting, the dedication of the wonderful staff, the grazing cows and calves, all combine to help keep the community in touch with the peacefulness of sustainable agriculture. The generations of Walker Farm each add their own signature to the ever-changing portrait that continues to remind one year by year of the temporary nature of the human condition and the fascinating permanence of the sacred land.

Visit us on-line at
www.walkerfarm.com

Phone: 802.254.2051
Fax: 802.254.1173
Owners: Jack, Karen & Kristin Manix
Address: Walker Farm 1190 US Route 5, East Dummerston, VT 05346
Hours: 10 AM to 6 PM every day mid-April to Thanksgiving
E-mail: jacmanix@sover.net

Visit us on-line at

www.walkerfarm.com