Change comes to the Kingsbury Farm
The Vermont Land Trust bought the 20-acre Kingsbury Farm in 2006 with the help of $100,000 from the Warren Conservation Fund. The farm was sold to the Vermont Foodbank which named Aaron Locker to farm it with the proviso that he provides the food bank with 30,000 pounds of produce a year. Locker subsequently bought the property from the food bank and continued to farm there – until he sold the property to Joe Bossen of Vermont Bean Crafters and All Souls Tortilla on April 9.
The Warren farm will now be known as Cloud Water Farm.
While Locker is no longer part of this farm, he’s not out of the farming business. He and his partner Tonya Howell are now raising herbs and medicinals on a 68-acre parcel of land on Butternut Hill Road. That land was donated to the Mad River Valley Community Fund and the Vermont Land Trust purchased the development rights and Locker purchased the land without development rights as well as the balance of the prope
James Buck Four Corners flour tortillas fresh out of the carousel oven at All Souls Tortilleria s Oak Street operation By noon on a recent Wednesday, the All Souls Tortilleria flour tortilla operation on Oak Street in Burlington was in full swing. Fresh balls of dough were flattened in a wedge press before heading into a carousel oven, from which they emerged puffy with air bubbles. A bite of a tortilla hot off the line evoked the toasty aroma of a late-summer wheat field and had a pastry-like flakiness. Between these Sonoran-style tortillas made with lard and the company s Four Corners version made with sunflower oil, All Souls produces about 5,000 flour tortillas a week. Since January, these have gradually joined the company s corn tortillas in retail coolers.