Pawlet's Woodlawn Farm Leverages Consider Bardwell's Award-Winning Cheese Recipes in a Shot at Survival
From Seven Days, June 25, 2024
One mid-April Thursday, Seth Leach began his morning at 3 a.m. as usual in the milking barn of his family's seventh-generation Pawlet farm. The rest of his day was far from standard for a Vermont dairy farmer.
Over the next 16 hours, Leach drove 200 miles from Woodlawn Farm in the Mettawee Valley to the Upper Valley, then on to Montpelier and Chittenden County. On the way, he stopped at 11 co-ops, specialty markets and restaurants, leaving a trail of cheese samples and sales materials behind him like Hansel and Gretel's crumbs.
Between two late-afternoon Burlington meetings, Leach took a 15-minute nap in his truck. "I felt like a new man," the 43-year-old farmer later recounted.
