Vermont dairy farm celebrates decades of farmland conservation
From The Vermont Land Trust Newsletter, September 12, 2022
Old meets new at Woodlawn Farmstead, a vibrant, family-run farm in Pawlet.
A farming legacy
Not long ago, thousands of dairy farms dotted Vermont’s landscape. Farm families could count on a steady income as long as they took good care of their herds and produced a lot of milk.
Among them were Tim and Dot Leach. Their beautiful dairy farm in Pawlet has been passed down through Tim’s family for seven generations. Dot remembers that farming was sometimes challenging, but in the early years, it was rarely a hardship.
“There was always plenty,” said Dot of her early experiences on the farm. “All we had to do was milk cows and be good farmers.”
