Tour Cedar Mountain Farm, a micro-dairy and no-till market garden in Hartland, to explore how regenerative practices can build climate resilience. For over thirty years, Stephen Leslie and Kerry Gawalt have applied soil health principles to support biodiversity and mitigate the impacts of heat, drought, and heavy rainfall. Specific resilience-building efforts include developing silvopasture and alley cropping systems, installation of a gravity hillside pasture water pipeline project, and fostering native riparian pockets. Join us to learn from the farmers how restoring the carbon cycle and biodiversity are key to increasing farm and community resilience. We'll also hear from Karen Ganey from the WRNRCD and Mike Snow from CRWFA about available resources.
This workshop earns one RAP Agricultural Water Quality education credit and is organized in collaboration with the Connecticut River Watershed Farmers Alliance and the White River Natural Resources Conservation District.
*The tour begins at 5:00 PM, though we invite you to arrive at 4:00 PM for an optional pre-tour welcoming ceremony. This will be a simple, optional way to begin the evening in a spirit of connection and gratitude. Together, we’ll gather in a circle around a table representing the earth and offer seeds, flowers, and food as gestures of thanks to the land. Held close to the fall equinox, this ceremony will honor the abundance of the season and create a gentle, open-hearted space for grounding ourselves in the energy of the land before we move into the workshop.
Cedar Mountain Farm is a Vermont Family Farmer of the Month and Resilience Grant awardee
