September 2005

Publisher's Message

"What exactly did my son die for?"

Just because we live in a culture of lies does not mean Americans cannot say, enough is enough. That tipping point arrived with the singular effort of Cindy Sheehan. Whether you agree with her statements or not, it is generally accepted that it was Sheehan, who through her grief over her slain soldier son, Casey, shone a glaring light directly in the face of a vacationing President Bush, by asking, “What exactly did my son die for?”

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Celebrating 200 Years of Vermont Women Farmers

Vermont’s agricultural history is reverently referenced with each political cycle, but many people are unaware of women’s integral role in its preservation. From the earliest pioneer days to the Depression to the back-to-the-land movement of the 1970s, women kept farms alive. Today, women are one of the fastest-growing demographics in farming across the nation.

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Farming Goes Public: Community Supported Agriculture

During the 1960s, a group of Japanese women concerned about the use of pesticides initiated a consumer movement to support local farmers, called teikei or “putting the farmer’s face on food.” Today, over one thousand thriving farms and their communities worldwide participate in Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), as it is known in the West.

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The Face of Vermont Farms gets a Lift: Agri-Tourism

Vermont farms are increasingly doubling as bed and breakfasts. Farming is enough of a challenge; why add cooking for and cleaning up after myriad guests to the list of daily chores?

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Projecting Outward: Bess O'Brien and Teen Cast Take Their Show on the Road . . . Listen.

 “That is so cool,” Rainey Lacey murmurs behind me during a recent rehearsal of the upcoming teen musical drama, The Voices Project. Lacey is one of the production designers; she is referring to the high-tech lighting – the use of computer projectors instead of spotlights – that has just been turned on the set, a segmented wall of trapezoidal white screens, creating a silhouette of the Green Mountains.

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