Operators of a value-added dairy in Vermontâs peaceful Upper Valley are battling to save their farm-based business, with help from residents who value its fresh, local products and want to preserve the areaâs rich agricultural heritage.
In 2015, the 200-year-old Norwich Farm was donated to Randolph, Vermont.-based Vermont Technical College, which invested considerable money for dairy processing equipment and launched an ill-fated educational program that ceased a year later, after one semester.
Chris Gray and his wife, Laura Brown, run Norwich Farm Creamery at the farm under a lease with the school that expires in late June. Theyâre backed by the non-profit Norwich Farm Foundation thatâs trying to raise enough money to purchase the 6-acre property, keep the creamery on site, and have the farm host diverse agricultural uses including a training facility for young farmers.
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Struggling with long-haul COVID
Published: 5/15/2021 2:00:38 PM
In March 2020, Caroline Boyd Tricarico contracted what she thought was a mild case of COVID-19. Now, more than a year later, she’s been forced onto short-term disability and early retirement as debilitating symptoms linger.
Boyd Tricarico, a former executive at several top financial firms as well as CEO of the Animal Rescue League of New Hampshire, went from being a leader to having days she couldn’t even get out of bed. Her symptoms have included short-term memory loss, “brain fog,” auditory and visual hallucinations, and insomnia. She developed a trial fibrillation (irregular, rapid heartbeat), which was not present prior to COVID-19. And her COVID symptoms have exacerbated her fibromyalgia. On a good day, she can maybe make breakfast, cross stitch or go for a short walk, she says.