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Innovative Practices Protect Natural Resources at First-Generation Dairy Farm

June 29, 2018 Rebecca Harris, Conservation Easement Stewardship Assistant, ECO AmeriCorps

Overlooking the southernmost shores of Vermont’s Lake Champlain lies Lucas Dairy Farm. Two years ago, first-generation farmer Jon Lucas moved his family and 150 milking cows and young stock to Orwell, Vermont, to lease the hillside land.

Conservation Farming