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Payment for Ecosystem Services

Payment for Ecosystem Services

“Ecosystem services” is the term used to describe any positive benefits the natural world provides to humans. There are four general categories used to describe these services. Provisioning services are the material or energy outputs of ecosystems, including food,...
Free Trees to Capture Carbon

Free Trees to Capture Carbon

This year we are partnering with American Meetings, Inc. to provide free trees to our tree sale customers! Black cherry, red maple, and black walnut are three of the fastest-growing hardwoods native to our area, so we have selected them for their faster carbon...
Featured Trees & Shrubs – $2

Featured Trees & Shrubs – $2

Every year we promote two trees or shrubs you might not know about that make excellent landscaping and habitat! In past years we’ve featured dogwood, viburnum, Aronia, and buttonbush. This year we’re discounting river birch ($5) and witch hazel (only $2!)....
Grow Mushrooms Under Your Raspberries!

Grow Mushrooms Under Your Raspberries!

by Jeannie Bartlett The last two springs I’ve inoculated different areas of my raspberry patch and under my fruit trees with winecap mushroom spawn, and the double-harvest sure has been fun. In early spring I spread clean hardwood wood chips through my raspberry bed...
Highgate Farmer Presents at Middlebury College

Highgate Farmer Presents at Middlebury College

In January, farmers Matt Choiniere (Highgate) and Steve Schubart (Charlotte) gave a guest lecture to the Middlebury College class Food, Farms, Future: Vermont. Through the course, 36 students explored the history, present and possible futures of VT agriculture....