Flatlanders

[handmade34]

3. times change... evolve

I have family in Vermont going back a couple hundred years... I was born in Michigan but returned to Vermont 30+ years ago... flatlanders? awhh... change is a part of life and there is ignorance in Vermont just as there is in other places. Most rural places are pretty tribal and still depend on money to survive????

"Sheep farming was so dominant in Vermont that in the late 1800’s, it was estimated that 70 percent of the land was cleared, mostly for
farming and sheep pastures. With the demise of the sheep, many of Vermont’s hillsides reverted to woodland... Today, Vermont has 1,026 dairy farms, down from more than 6,000 in 1965 (Vermont Agency of Agriculture 2010)..." and we are losing more dairy farms every year...

http://www.uvm.edu/crs/reports/working_papers/WorkingPaperParsons-web.pdf