Editor’s note: Commentary by Bob Foster, a member of the Foster Brothers Farm in Middlebury, which supplies milk to the Agri-Mark cooperative and recycles cow manure to make compost products called Moo Doo. Foster is on the board of the Soil Health Institute. When you drove past a farm field this winter, you might have been curious about what’s growing there. Yes, growing. At our dairy farm and farms across the state we’re growing plants on our fields even in the winter. We keep the growing season going 365 … (read more)
