Bill Henessey and Beth Whiting. Sustainable farming. Huntington, Vermont.

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America Works

Library of Congress

25 episodes

5 months ago

Features the voices of contemporary workers from throughout the United States talking about their lives, their workplaces, and their on-the-job experiences. Drawn from hundreds of longer oral history interviews collected by fieldworkers for the American Folklife Center's Occupational Folklife Project (OFP), America Works is a testament to the wisdom, wit, knowledge, and dedication of today's working Americans. These engaging oral histories, which have are preserved in the American Folklife Center's archive, are enriching and expanding America's historical record.

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Bill Henessey and Beth Whiting. Sustainable farming. Huntington, Vermont.

America Works

6 minutes 39 seconds

6 months ago

Bill Henessey and Beth Whiting. Sustainable farming. Huntington, Vermont.

As part of a larger Occupational Folklife Project on “Grass-Roots Agriculture in Vermont,” Bruce Hennessey and Beth Whiting, owners of Maple Wind Farm in Huntington, Vermont, talk with folklorist Andy Kolovos about moving to Vermont in 1999 to become farmers; how their small business expanded into a diversified produce and livestock operation employing 18 workers; and how they are trying to move towards more humane and ecologically friendly farming.