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The Tipping Point

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By Heidi Lewis Can you smell it? Can you feel it? Is it the way the light shifts or how the little events in your day change—traffic patterns, morning routines, a heavier jacket? Thoreau wrote in his first book, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers: “That night was the turning-point in the season. We [...]

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To Autumn

Autumn in Vermont

Just as plants employ the cycle of photosynthesis and respiration to convert light, air, and water into energy and back again into CO2, so go the cycles of farming seasons. Seed to sprout to fruit to compost to soil to seeds again. Every culture’s agricultural calendar takes into account times of abundance and times for [...]

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