Stewardship Stories - Archive
An Orchard for All
March 01, 2008
I was in the passenger seat, being driven up a driveway by a real estate agent in 1995. I looked southward through the open car window toward a wide valley encircled by beautiful mountains and fell in love instantaneously. Many years later, I look at those familiar mountains (Croydon Peak and Grantham Mountain), the undulating valleys, the wispy fog after …
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The Oak and the Jay
September 01, 2007
I own 110 acres of northern hardwoods in a valley west of Mount Mansfield in northern Vermont. There are no oaks in my area, so when I built my home in 1978, I planted six red oaks around the house. They prospered and grew while I gradually cleared 30 acres to raise sheep. In the year 2000, the oak trees …
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