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Somewhere, over the rainbow
PHOTO BY JC BIEBUYCK
JC Biebuyck of Chrlotte captured this perfect rainbow on Saturday late afternoon at Thompson’s Point looking toward Point Bay Marina after a deluge of rain.
New Nordic Farm owners say, ‘keep it simple’ LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
Way out on a hill off Route 7 sits a sprawling property iconically marked by red-roofed barns that strikingly contrast with the Green Mountain landscape around them. Inching closer to Charlotte, the noise of a bustling city begins to fade as chirps from
the insects, crickets, and other wildlife fill the air. Those barns are more commonly known as Nordic Farm, a standing testament to what was once a booming dairy industry in Vermont. Now, as two new owners close on the latest sale of the property, there is no extravagant plan in the works — not quite yet. Instead, the New York natives plan to do something much more grandiose: “Keep
it simple.” Benjamin Dobson and Kaspar Meier, a prominent farmer and a builder from Columbia County in New York, closed on the sale of the conserved property of just under 600 acres on July 2 after more than a year on the market without any serious interest. But according to Meier, the duo has taken up the challenge, “hook, line, and
sinker.” They bought the property for $2.2 million, significantly less than the grand list value of $3.2 million.
A long history The property has seen a frequent shift in ownership and ideas over the last decade, See NORDIC FARM on page 8
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