Resilience is: Hawthorn Meadow Farmstead

Elizabeth Echeverria started Hawthorn Meadow Farmstead in order to feed her community in Craftsbury, Vermont while stewarding the land.
The small, diversified market garden is located on a sloped, rocky mountainside. “It’s not prime agricultural land by most definitions,” Elizabeth said. “I really wanted to see how much abundance I could produce in a small, somewhat marginal location…I wanted to have a model where you could show that you could have a small-scale diversified human-powered system and grow good food for people.”
When Hawthorn Meadow Farmstead’s energy consumption started to outpace the energy generated by their solar panels, Elizabeth looked to Project Drawdown to assess how the farm could be more efficient. “Being climate conscious as a food-producing entity is super important.”
Liz received one of NOFA-VT's resilience grants to make some energy upgrades, and here are the results!
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The world needs this Hats off to Elizabeth!

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Love your swales! Currently building a hügelkultur bed on a flat section near my house, but the rest of my land is either up or down with some extreme plateaus, such as a 60x40 ledge face. It looks awesome, but I've yet to figure out how to use it.
Best!