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Sample the Season!
Thanksgiving Weekend at Welcome Center
Friday-Sunday, NOVEMBER 26-28
10 am - 5 pm. Horse-drawn wagon rides Friday & Saturday only, 11 am - 2 pm, $2/person.
SAVE 10% on catalog mail orders!
(Members receive additional 10%). Applies to online orders, too! 8 am Friday to 8:00 pm Sunday.
Cheese tastings, a chat with Shelburne author Rick Bessette, wagon rides, hot cider, and a Farm Store full of great holiday gifts.
Watch Woodhead Save the Farm!
Sunday, DECEMBER 5 - for families
3:00–4:00 pm at the Welcome Ctr.
Meet Woodhead in person and watch his 30-minute DVD “Woodhead Saves the Farm” in our theater.
Fee: Free, but seating is limited. Please call 985-8442 to reserve a seat
Winter Gifts Decoration and Craft Making
Saturday, DECEMBER 11 - for families
9:30–11:30 am & 12:30–2:30 pm
Fee: Member: $20/parent & child, $15 each additional child; Nonmember: $23/$17 Registration: 802-985-8686
Holiday Wreath Decorating
Sunday, DECEMBER 12
10:00 am - 12 noon
or 1:00-3:00 pm
Victoria Dilley, florist for the Inn at Shelburne Farms, will show you how to decorate your holiday wreath with natural materials. Bring your own wreath. We'll provide materials.
Fee: $15 Registration: 802-985-8686
All calendar postings
Look for our Winter Calendar in the mail. All listings are also online. |
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Members
make the Magic!
• Do you love this place?
• Learn from our programs?
• Get inspired by our projects? Become a member (or renew your membership). Your support makes it all possible.
Memberships also make great “green” holiday gifts!
Contact Lenore Budd, 802-985-0318. |
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Winter Farmers Markets
Shelburne: Saturdays,
10-2 at the Shelburne Town Center Gymnasium.
Dates & more info.
Burlington: Saturdays,
10-2 at Memorial Auditorium.
Dates/more info
Find a Winter Farmers Market in your area from VT Agency of Agriculture.
Order your
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Enjoy the beauty and spirit of the farm with color photographs by Marshall Webb and others. |
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Submit your photo for our Calendar!
Share your photo of Shelburne Farms, and we may feature it in our 2012 Calendar. Details. |
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 Dear Friend,
I’m Tom, one of the cheese makers, in my first year at the Farm. Since I began in June, it’s been amazing witnessing the constantly changing "seasons" here. In the busy summer months, while “on display” through the windows in the Hub, I enjoyed interacting with visitors, and especially with the many school groups. Now preparing for the busy mail order season, we’re joined by co-workers from all over the farm. A great sense of camaraderie develops as hours are spent waxing and wrapping cheese — hard work lightened by laughter. We'll end our cheesemaking season in early December.
I hope you enjoy our cheddar and its connection to this place, as much as we enjoy crafting it for you. Order your holiday supply from our new online store!
Cheers,
Tom Gardner, cheesemaker
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We've launched our new online store!
We've been hard at work since June remodelling our online store. (It's amazing how long "remodelling" of any kind takes!) Now it's your chance to try it out and tell us what you think.
With our new store you can:
- Easily ship products to multiple addresses on your gift list
- Build your own gift packages
- Purchase gift certificates for any amount to be redeemable online
- Easily navigate to products
- Purchase or renew membership for yourself or a friend (a great holiday gift!)
Some history: Our first full-color, holiday mail-order catalog hit mailboxes in 1985, just four years after we began making cheddar. In 2000, we launched our first online store, and that original store has had quite a run! We’ve heard your comments about it, and hope our new store will give you a much more convenient online shopping experience.
Snazzier photos, too! We spent a few days in August with a photographer, trying to capture not just what our cheddar means to us, but what it might mean to you—in your own home.
As always, your purchase not only brings you great cheddar and farm products, but it helps support all our education programs. So thank you.
 A new "I believe" essay
"Individually and collectively we have the power to change, improve and reclaim our food systems."
-- Dana Hudson, in the Burlington Free Press, 10/31/ 2010
As a young girl, Dana Hudson watched her family farm in greater Washington D.C. dismantled and turned into developments. She later came to Vermont to work for VT FEED and its Farm to School programs—linking schools and farmers, and teaching children the importance of fresh, local produce.
It gave her a lot to believe in. Read her full essay here. photo by Ryan Mercer for the Free Press.
 Connecting people to farming here
"This program has inspired me to go back to my farm and develop more and better educational activities!"
-- Patty Treworgy, Levant, Maine
21 farmers and farm educators from New England, New Jersey, and Ontario participated in our two-day "ABC’s of Farm Education" workshop last weekend. Activities from Project Seasons, discussions on marketing to schools, meeting teachers needs, and opening your farm to the public rounded out visits to our various producers around th farm.
. . . . and across the globe
Late in October, Italian farmer/educators from Spannocchia in Tuscany gathered with New England folks at Shelburne Farms to discuss two central questions: How are farms connecting to markets and becoming economically viable? and, How are farms connecting to people to strengthen community engagement in farming and access to healthy, locally produced food?
Their answers will help strengthen local food communities here and across the ocean.
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Shelburne Farms cultivates a conservation ethic by teaching and demonstrating the stewardship of natural and agricultural resources.
We are a nonprofit environmental education center, 1,400-acre working farm, and National Historic Landmark.