Vermont's Old Barns Are Easy to Commemorate, Less So to Save
Conant's Riverside Farms in Richmond In 2017, the Tipton family — Benjamin, Michelle and two teenage children — returned to Vermont after nearly a decade away to establish a family farm. They found and purchased a 20-acre former farmstead in Burke Hollow whose only remaining structure was a deteriorating barn. It had sunk a foot into the ground in places, many of its timbers had rotted, and the roof was near collapse. "People in town knew it as the red barn on the hill that the foxes lived in," Benjamin Tipton said during a phone call from hi...
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