Bread & Butter Farm is a wonderful place to visit! The shop/bakery cafe was open when we visited…read morethis week during the kids school break. This was a great spot to make after touring the Vermont Teddy Bear Factory. We tried the almond flour cake which is a must order! We also bought the orchard apples, maple onion hot sauce, and chili and cheese bread. Staff were so nice here. They offered a chopping board and bread knife so we could cut the bread and apples and enjoy outside in the sun. We also walked around the cafe/shop to the back to check out the brown cows! They were so friendly. Our kids adored Nelson, the farm cat!

What an amazing farm. We came here to see the eclipse, they have an awesome shop that sells meats…read morefrom the farm, some great coffee and merch. The land is beautiful with amazing views, and the family that runs the farm are some of the nicest people you will ever meet. They were slinging burgers, hot dogs, ect for the event. When we arrived I got myself an iced maple latte, so good! For lunch I got a cheeseburger and kale salad, and man both were excellent (hence why I took some steaks home). Highly recommend to stop in to support this family farm !

This review is based on my first visit for u-pick berries. I went for their red currants and blue…read moreberries. VT is the only place I found fresh currants so I was ecstatic to find a certified organic farm that grew them and were in season! +++ LRF is a family owned fabulous 200+ acres working farm in Monkton! Of that 90 acres is CERTIFIED ORGANIC, which has stringent requirements. I think it takes about 3 years and is an expensive process for farmers. They offer pick your own (PYO) berries (strawberries, currants, raspberries and blueberries), retail online and on-site for garlic, onions, tomatoes and other produce, pasture raised hen eggs and scratch made jams and CSA. They also sell hay to local farmers. Around here, customers, CSA included, come to farms to pick what they want. I called ahead and met Eugenia(sp?) upon arrival. She was friendly and showed me how and where to pick both red and black currants. Blue berries were not open to the public yet but she kindly let me pick a quart;-)). Their berries are high quality and after picking 3 quarts of berries, I decided I had an ample quantity....berry picking was addictive - LoL! + Price was reasonable. I paid $20 for 3 quarts of organic berries! TLR accepts cash, check and Venmo. + Parking if free ++ Eugenia was very kind and helpful! They are open May - October for PYO but CALL ahead and listen to their recording as their hours depend on weather changes and each crop ripeness. I left a voice message and Eugenia called me back after 90 minutes. Get some fresh air and enjoy getting farm fresh organic food!

I was fortunate enough to find this farm via the state's list of pick-your-own farms. They are a…read morefully organic farm, which is no small feat. Strawberries are the number one produce that is on the EWG's annual dirty dozen list, full of so many pesticides, that there's no way I want to buy non-organic strawberries (pesticides used for organic use are much safer). The farm has an excellent and safe procedures plan in place for COVID-19. You make a reservation in advance on the date you want, giving you two hours to pick as much as you need. They provide the cartons, which cannot be reused by anyone else due to safety measures. You will pay them via Venmo or credit card-no cash exchanges hands. So we decided on a sunny afternoon and donning our masks, headed out to the fields after we'd washed our hands in the outdoor sink, per their policy (excellent). One bonus to having a reservation, is fewer people picking at a time. We had several rows to ourselves and the owner Silas took the netting off of some patches for us and said we were welcome to move more, if we needed to. 70 minutes later, laden down with over 15 pounds of delicious strawberries of different varieties, paid the bill and headed home. These berries are amazing. I made: -strawberry lemon marmalade; -low sugar strawberry jam; -strawberry vinegar (and took the strawberries once the vinegar was fully infused and sweetened to make pie filling; -strawberry red wine jam and still have 4 cups to do with as I please! (still deciding) I'll definitely come here again; this is a wonderful farm in a gorgeous part of Vermont (couldn't all of VT though described as such)?

Absolutely phenomenal experience. Couldn't recommend it enough. The sweetest family and…read moreexceptional food from the chef. Please help support this terrific establishment!!

Fantastic! Great farm to table . First a hay ride then picking flowers and then the meal …read more Served buffet style -all you can eat. Appetizers, salad , vegetables, potatoes , chicken and roast beef. At end ice cream either maple syrup. Anne and Joe, the owners are great hosts as were the chef and servers. We dined on the porch with other guests. Made new friends.

Pete's Greens is an organic farm located in Craftsbury, VT. Many markets, small grocery stores and…read morehealth food stores sell their products. They also offer a CSA where you can receive organic fruits and vegetables on a weekly basis when in season. At the company farm, there is a farm stand where you can buy their products along with a selection of other locally made and grown products. The selection is good and the prices are what you would expect to pay for high quality Vermont grown organic products. They accept cash, checks and credit cards. I believe the farm stand shuts down in the winter. If you stop, check out the plants growing on the roof of the farm stand.

We are lucky to get the Good Eats CSA offered by Pete's Greens every other week, year round, and it…read moreis just stellar. Not only are the veggies top-rate, but through their amazing connections we get the best bread, meat, eggs, cheese, milk, and pantry items that Vermont (and sometimes Quebec and neighboring states) has to offer, including apples, honey, cornmeal, vinegar, jam, etc. With "real food" becoming harder to find, we rely on this farm to provide and source us soil-grown and pasture-raised organic products that we feel good about. We've only visited the farm store itself a handful of times, but it's well-stocked and always a treat.

Learned about the farm from a local food store in St. Albans. We decided to drive over to Franklin…read moreto see if they sold direct to consumer and sure enough they do! We bought a couple of cuts and learned a lot about the farm from John, the owner. It's mostly a dairy farm, but they sell their beef to some retail outlets and have freezers on site where you can pick our your own cuts. Great flavor and fun addition to our trip to VT! Try the tenderloin.

My family and I have been coming here for well over 2 decades. Honestly - if I can go here for any…read morefresh vegetables, flowers, fruits, or whatever else - I hands down will, no questions asked. This place is great, beautiful and worth a visit even if you leave with just one flower or one giant tomato. And it is such a beautiful environment, too!

The Crossroad Farm is a wonderfully impressive Vermont roadside farm stand located in the Upper…read moreValley. It's a locally owned family run farm in Post Mills, Vt. less than a half mile from Lake Fairlee. It offers a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers from its impressive, timber-framed building along with Red Hen Artisan breads, MapleBrook Farm Mozzarella along with locally produced meats, yogurt, and cheeses. My choices were huge, mouthwatering beefsteak tomatoes, mixed pint of cherry tomato varieties, locally made goat cheese. Their fresh corn didn't require any soaking before roasting on my charcoal grill. It was absolutely the best ear of corn eaten in years. Their spacious 60 acre farm is dotted with beautiful flower gardens and rows of bright sunflowers in many shapes and sizes. It truly is a Vermont Farm experience.

The concept behind this farm is super sweet (ba dum tiss). What I mean by that is that there is a…read morelot of trust involved here, as they utilize a farm share system. Sort of like subscribing to those businesses that send you cool mystery packages, a farm share is where you pay to support the farm and in return you get a share of the farm's harvest, whatever they end up harvesting. You will need to pick it up yourself of course. Jules invited me to tag along with her to pick up the farm share harvest for the week. No one was really there to monitor everything that day (we were actually the only ones present at the moment). The farm people just left the harvested goods there in a barn and you sign off on the list that you picked up your share! This time around we got scallions, kale, and scallions. There is even a barter box where you can leave behind items you do not want and in return, you can take any items that you want.

It's #thankyouthursday, so I'm taking some time this morning to think of businesses that made life…read morein 2020 better for me and for their communities. And Sweetland is the first place that came to mind. This place is working super hard to bring local, nutritious meats and produce to the community. On top of that, they do everything they can to actually build that community and it's resilience. In normal years, their CSA pickup and you pick crops for members are a really awesome way to meet and visit with neighbors, and they also host a variety of awesome events and let you wander around the beautiful farm. Chris and Norah and the crew are also really kind and welcoming. This year, despite being crazy busy filling their sold out CSA shares, they also put lots of time and effort into starting a grocery pick up service for community members to be able to get food safely. I worked with them on this project, and was amazed by how hard working, caring, and innovative they are. They really cared about their team, other local farmers, and their community. It's very inspiring to be around them.

Love this spot!! Have the most gorgeous flower bouquets for $10 and an awesome assortment of great…read morevegetables and even free roaming chicken eggs! To make it all even better.. the owner accepts Venmo!

From the owner: Get great, healthy food at our public summer farmstand, at our winter farmstore, or through our CSA…read moremembership program. We follow, and have for many years followed, organic growing practices. We believe a healthy soil produces healthy animals and people. We select our vegetables for flavor and nutrient content rather than for machine harvesting and long shipment. Complementing the vegetables and flowers are pastured chickens, ducks, and pigs. The poultry and pigs use less prime land, keep pests down, and provide us with great entertainment. Our animals are not fed junk food. They are fed certified organic feed, supplemented with plants and insects that they find and our "seconds" vegetables. Our free-range, pastured hens are fed certified organic, non-GMO, feed, producing wonderful dark brown eggs. Eggs are available for purchase at the farmstand/farmstore and also through our Support a Hen CSA, providing eggs at a discount year-round. We open our public summer farmstand in May When we outgrow the farmstore with fesh growth. The summer farmstand stays open through October, when we move inside to the winter farmstore. Our CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) membership program runs from June through October with vegetable, meat, eggs, and flower options.

So we got our Thanksgiving turkey at The Green Mountain Girls Farm, and it was the best turkey I've…read moreever made. Even my sister said so! The day before, my husband picked up a big 22-pound bird that had just been butchered a few days ago. It was so fresh that I had a few tiny feathers floating around in my brine. It was so fresh that I could just barely separate the skin from the breast meat to rub in the butter and fresh thyme, which the Girls also so generously provided. It was so fresh I didn't really have to tie together the legs or pin down the wings. It was so fresh that you could *taste* it. And this was (or had been) one healthy turkey! You could tell by the quality of the skin, the texture of the uncooked meat, the size of the bones!!! Man, this turkey had been doing some weight-bearing exercises or something! Huge leg bones. Wings you could make a meal of. I can't wait to taste the broth. Yet the meat was as tender as it was flavorful. Now, with fresh turkey from a farm, you're gonna want to brine it. My 22-lb bird fit in the brining bag from the grocery store beautifully. I put in 1.5 cups of salt, a cup of sugar, and about 2 gallons of water, and I let her sit for about 18 hours. I rinsed her real well; patted her dry; stuffed her with onion, carrots, and celery; covered her with a pound of bacon; wrapped her up tightly in tinfoil; and then I let her roast at 425 degrees for about 3 hours, unwrapped her, and let her brown for about 30 more. Perfect. Tomorrow I'm making turkey pot pie and turkey stock--with locally grown carrots, onions, garlic, and celery. I love knowing that my turkey had been well-cared for and loved, that she is about as organic as you can get, and that her purchase supported my favorite local farm girls. And my guests loved that tender, tasty turkey.

The women who own and run this business have created an attractive space through hard work and…read moreheartfelt investment, but after buying a few items from their farm store, I would say that it's unlikely that I would make a habit of shopping here. If no one is available to show me where items are in the disorganized room or to help me use my credit card, I would be at a loss. Prices were high, as they should be, but convenience should be elevated as well. Good luck to them as they sort these issues out.