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Farmers team up for collaborative CSA

Posted on April 15, 2010 | By

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JEREMY AND CAITLIN Gildrien are heading up the vegetable portion of the Neighborly CSA, a small-scale farming operation run by four local families. Independent photo/Trent Campbell

ADDISON COUNTY — On a brisk mid-April morning, Jeremy Gildrien worked alone in the large greenhouse beside his Middlebury home, fashioning from a mound of earth the “soil blocks” that would someday soon nurture small, green seedlings.

The breeze cut through the greenhouse as Gildrien worked among the rows of spinach and radishes and pea shoots, each sending up sprouts. He and his wife, Caitlin, are beginning farmers, and they’re learning that much of the work on their vegetable farm is solitary.

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