Mark your calendars to learn how to make wholesome, nutritious value-added dairy products from raw goats’ milk and gently pasteurized cows’ milk. Rural Vermont will be partnering with Carol Fairbank of Broadfork Farmstead in Greensboro to offer this class on Sunday, July 17, 2022, starting at 1PM.
Carol will guide participants through making goats’ milk caramels, we’ll take a farm tour to visit baby Alpine goats, and then she’ll show us how to make mozzarella. We’ll end by sharing yummy samples together. All levels of previous experience (including none) are welcome!
Carol operates a tier 1 goat microdairy, and milks just three Alpine does. She believes goats and kids are happiest when they’re together, so she only separates them overnight when she wants to milk. Quarts of fresh raw goats milk are available at the farm by special order.
More about the farmer & the farm:
Carol Fairbank is a first generation farmer, cultivating her family farm and homestead in the hills of Greensboro, Vermont. She’s had a livelong love for farming and the homesteading arts, but growing up in a busy Boston suburb, she got a late start on her journey. She bagan considering herself a farmer in 2007, when she bought her first rural property in Massachuetts. She spent 10 years there, honing her growing skills, learning to raise her own livestock for meat and eggs, and waiting for the fruit trees to finally produce.
In the summer of 2014, she moved to a primitive seasonal summer cottage in Greensboro, with her family and all her livestock in tow. She jokes that her animals had good lodging, and the fruit trees were planted before she had an indoor shower. The intervening years have seen many updates to the property, including outbuildings, a proper well and septic system, and a grid-tied solar array. Learning to manage a very short, cold growing season has presented new challenges, and it’s always exciting when the gardens produce something delectable, like a perfect, glossy eggplant, or a French melon at peak sweetness. She’s still waiting for the fruit trees to produce.
When she’s not looking after the farm, you can find her looking after her corner of the Northeast Kingdom, and creating vibrancy and vitality however she can. She dedicates much of her time to working with local non-profits and town government, either working in the field, or serving on boards and committees. She has a passion for projects that empower communities, and her work has made an impact in the areas of arts integration, inclusion and diversity, economic growth, accessible high-speed internet connectivity, and ecological sustainability.
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