My Side of the Mountain Podcast

By Ethan Weinstein KILLINGTON—After 28 years teaching at Killington Elementary, one wouldn’t blame Melissa Knipes for burnout. She teaches kindergarteners — 5-year-olds — an age when some still ask for help in the bathroom while others have graduated to chapter books. But Knipes knows no cynicism, no complacency. She radiates warmth. Even entering a third…

By Ethan Weinstein RUTLAND—Some kids like to collect baseball cards, others play video games. Lyric, 9, and her brother, Luca, 6, of Little Diggers Worm Farm, have a different hobby: worms. Along with their grandmother, Kim Ray, the sibling team created Little Diggers Worm Farm, selling mini worm farm kits, vermicomposting starter kits, worm casting…

By Ethan Weinstein https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/one-farmer-feeding-the-world/id1578946939?i=1000531218275 https://omny.fm/shows/my-side-of-the-mountain/one-farmer-feeding-the-world?in_playlist=my-side-of-the-mountain!podcast   “It’s gonna sound bizarre: I don’t focus on making a living, I focus on feeding people. And I have this little mantra in my head, that the farmer that’s worried about feeding his family may starve; the farmer that’s worried about feeding the world will never starve.” Greg Cox…

Episode no. 3 of My Side of the Mountain — overlooked stories of everyday life in the Green Mountain State. 10-minutes. https://omny.fm/shows/my-side-of-the-mountain/sheep-farming-and-vertical-integration By Ethan Weinstein It started as a joke: What if we had a sheep farm? Nine years later, Peg and Todd Allen know sheep. They raise lambs — “the finest colored Corriedales in…