Summer in and around UVM’s Bailey/Howe Library can feel pretty sleepy, except perhaps on Thursday afternoons, when students from the school’s Farmer Training Program gather near the entrance to sell kale, peppers, tomatoes and other goodies they’ve grown. Now, images of those farmers — as well as their historical counterparts — are on display in the library’s lobby this summer, and a few local farmers will gather in the lobby on Thursday to celebrate the work.
“Growing Fields” draws together vivid images of UVM’s farmers-in-training — as well as the food they grow— with vintage photos of the Vermont hayers, pickers and ploughs of yore. The exhibit runs until August 22, but on Thursday, three women farmers — Amanda Andrews of Burlington’s Tamarack Hollow Farm, Nancy Hayden of Jeffersonville’s the Farm Between, and UVM farmer-in-training program director Laura Williams — will talk about what drew them to the field during an afternoon reception.
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