New England 10/14 Quechee VT

Today we're in Quechee, Vermont, and it has been beautiful driving across New Hampshire into Vermont. The scenery has changed from (beautifully) rugged in the White Mountains to beautiful in Vermont. To be accurate, note that we are only a few miles across the border from NH into VT.

People we talked to in Maine recommended stopping to see Texas Falls near here, so we did:
Texas Falls.

We visited the Taftsville Country Store:


and were impressed by this old house next door:


Four chimneys - pretty cozy in the winter.

We visited Sugarbush Farm, where they make cheese, tap maple trees to make maple syrup, and generally run an independent family farm.
We learned about maple syrup:







This is how much syrup 1 tree will produce in a year:




Family farms like this are disappearing across the country, and being replaced by agribusiness. Autumn and Brenna's mommy sent Poppa this email recently:

Our farmers need our help! The FSMA would put additional demands on small farmers that are unnecessary and burdensome....and would make it even harder for small farms to stay in business. Please see below, and consider commenting to the FDA.
http://www.kretschmannfarm.com/all-hands-on-deck-your-fresh-food-supply-our-farm-is-in-danger

She's in Pennsylvania, but it applies here too in New England. There are a lot of organic farms here, as there are back in Pennsylvania, but they need help to survive.

We also visited the Quechee Gorge:



Poppa walked down to the bottom for this picture looking back to the bridge:





- Tigger and Dottie seeing the country with Nana and Poppa