Category Archives: Business management

Personal Coaching Returns

By Mary Peabody, WAgN Director When we began offering personal coaching sessions in May 2020, I did not imagine we’d still be in the throes of the pandemic heading into 2022. But, here we are and life continues to be chaotic and … Continue reading

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Spotlight on Ansel Ploog, Flywheel Farm

Ansel Ploog manages Flywheel Farm in Woodbury, VT with Justin Cote where she grows organically certified vegetables and markets the produce wholesale and at their farmstand. When Ansel started the farm in 2013, she had little farm management experience but a … Continue reading

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Spotlight on Birch Rise Farm

By Suzy Hodgson “I was surprised that I could raise animals especially pigs and not feel terrified.  I’d grown up outside of Detroit so this experience was way outside my comfort zone,” says Kate Osgood, co-owner of Birch Rise Farm … Continue reading

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