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Campus & Buildings

Favorite Places On The Farm

We're excited to open for the 2025 season this weekend! To celebrate, we asked Shelburne Farms staff members to share their favorite places on our working farm campus.

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Food & Farming

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Creamery Manager Maddy Born reflects back on how her work at the Farm has changed her life.

Food & Farming

Maple Sugaring 2020 – A Quiet Season

The final days of March marked the end of a productive 2020 sugaring season, thanks in part to the expansion of our sugarbush over the winter.

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The mystery of syrup color

The color of maple syrup varies from "Golden" to "Dark," depending on where you are in the sugaring season. The question is, why?

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Market Garden Update, March 20, 2020

Despite so many disruptions in the world right now, the Market Garden is moving forward with planting on schedule. Planting seeds for the future grounds us in the seasonal rhythms of the earth.

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Food & Farming

Q+A: Sheep Shearing in February

Every winter, we shear our sheep at the Dairy. We asked Herdsman Renee LaCoss about the process, and get answers to the most commonly asked questions.

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Innovations at Farm-Based Education Conference

At November's successful National Farm-Based Education Conference, 7 innovations contributed to strengthening farm-based education opportunities across the country.

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Experimenting with Wool as a Nitrogen Source for Farming

Our Market Garden is testing the effectiveness of sheep wool pellets as a nitrogen fertilizer, which could be an important value-added product for farmers raising sheep.

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Fall Farming Update

We caught up with the farmers who care for our land, animals, and produce – here’s what’s been happening on campus this September:

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Food & Farming

Gleaning Season in the Market Garden

This is prime season for gleaning in the Market Garden--harvesting extra produce from the fields for various local food security organizations. Read about what it looks like.

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1611 Harbor Road Shelburne, Vermont 05482 

Telephone: 802-985-8686

An education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future through its programs, place, and products. Home to the Institute for Sustainable Schools, our historic campus is a 1,400-acre diversified farm located on the homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.

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