Food producers talk with U.S. Rep. Becca Balint, D-Vt., at the ACORN Food Hub in Middlebury last month. Pictured, from left, are Melanie Harrison of Harrison’s Homegrown, Balint, Ben Haigh of Rolling Bale Farm, Todd Hardie of Champlain Valley Grain Center and Ross Conrad of Dancing Bee Gardens. VTDigger photo/ Greta Solsaa
By Greta Solsaa, VTDigger.org
ADDISON COUNTY — Several years ago, Ben Haigh, a small-scale dairy farmer in Shoreham, received $50,000 in federal funding from an arm of the U.S. Department of Agriculture to put up fencing around his farm, infrastructure he felt was essential for his operation. But lately it’s been a different story for Haigh: In more recent […]
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