Springtime Gratitude

It was a long winter here in Vermont, and watching life come back to the land this spring feels especially precious this time around. Bands of green grass and buds are settling into the valley and just starting to creep up the mountain ridgelines on either side of us. My great-grandmother called this springtime spectacle “the green tide of spring rising”.

Looking around with springtime eyes, I’m thinking about how this place that Bell & Burrow calls home has been protected by generations of stewards and farmers for as long as humans have been loving land. If those people hadn’t treasured its fields, woods, and streams, these picturesque acres would surely have been developed long ago. Instead, there are tree crops being planted, sheep grazing, and migratory birds nesting, as we speak.

How lucky we are for the stubborn few who shepherd sacred land from one keeper to the next. I am grateful to all of them who called this place home before us. Our farm team is committed to fostering abundant life here—from soil to sky—in this next chapter on the land.