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Stowe farmers who participate in a local ag-based tax stabilization program will pay more in property taxes going forward, but still less than if they enrolled their land in the state’s current use program and significantly less than non-farming folks.

At one point, nearly 200 people crammed into the Stowe High School Auditorium Tuesday for the first in-person Town Meeting Day gathering in three years and, while the big-ticket items

Stowe farmers are taxed at a flat rate of $200 per acre, less than half the $429 rate in the state current use program.

A Hyde Park herb farm is hoping to use one pest to deal with the effects of another.