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The Turner barn project was successfully completed in May 2007.
Thanks to everyone in the Mad River Valley community and beyond who
helped assure that this farm will be here for generations to come!
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Adopt a Cow
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here to learn about the
Waitsfield School's trip to the Turner Farm.
Twelve
heifers* went to Joel Pominville's Quarry Road Farm in
Middlebury. Happily, two pregnant heifers were recently
brought home, but the other 10 will remain in Middlebury
until the new barn is ready.
Waitsfield
Farmer Hadley Gaylord Jr. trucked the other four cows to
Cabot. Melvin Churchill is boarding three -- Faye, Floozy
and Elisa -- at his Continual Farm. Ellen, the most
seriously injured heifer, went to Melvin's brother Rusty's
farm in Cabot. Melvin's son Morgan has been working with her
and has her back on her feet but not fully recovered.
*Cows
boarded at Quarry Road Farm: Charm, Dolly, Ester, Easy,
Elsie, Elflago, Eclair, Elaine, Everred, Flavor, Farce,
Fern.
At the Community organizational meeting last Thursday,
someone suggested that an adopt a cow program would be a
great way for the schools to get involved in helping the
Turners. A team got to work on this project and now
all three Valley Elementary schools plus Harwood are helping
out in this effort.
Georgeanne Baker's Class (from Waitsfield Elementary School)
visited the Turner Farm on Friday, April 13 to meet the
Turner cows and present a check for $409.63 to Doug and Joe
Turner as part of the Feed the Cows program. The class
got to name one of the recently born calves. There
were some guidelines for naming the calf....her (or his)
name had to start with "H" and her last name had to be Red.
The most popular name was Homer, but it turns out the "red"
was a girl so the group decided to call her Hope.
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