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Shelburne Craft School, housing trust bring art to local kids LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
The Shelburne Craft School and the Champlain Housing Trust have teamed up to bring the joy of the arts to children and families who live at Harbor Place. Harbor Place, which operates from the former Days Inn on Shelburne Road, is a transitional housing facility for individuals and families experiencing homelessness and part of the state’s for emergency hotel housing voucher program. Heather Moore, executive director of the Shelburne Craft School, said the partnership will play a crucial role in expanding art services to all those who call Shelburne home, even those who might be there temporarily. “The families and the children are so grateful to have access to the arts, as well as the staff, and even folks that are staying there that are not part of the art but are just walking by. I’ve probably been thanked 45 times in the hour that I’m there for just being there,” Moore said. Harbor Place is owned and operated by Champlain Housing Trust, a community land trust that supports communities through the development and stewardship of permanently affordable homes and related community assets, according to its mission statement. “All of our guests at Harbor Place are high risk. They have first-hand experience with homelessness and mental health issues and addiction,” Kristen Ciambella, the See HARBOR PLACE on page 12
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It’s feeding time at Philo Ridge Farm in Charlotte.
Philo Ridge lambing season gets in full swing LIBERTY DARR STAFF WRITER
Although some conventional telltale signs foreshadow the beginning of spring — warmer weather, longer days and the faint smell of buddings blossoms in the air — for the Philo Ridge livestock team, spring is much more important than just a summer precursor: It marks the beginning of lambing season. Around the week of March 15, just days before the spring equinox, the centuries-old
Old Black Barn that sits on the edge of Mt. Philo Road in Charlotte will transform into a haven for 50 birthing ewes and a whole new world for the 100 or so baby lambs that will be born in the days to follow. The land where Philo Ridge Farm sits has a rich agricultural history with roots that were tended initially by the Indigenous Western Abenaki tribe. The Williams family established the first farm on the land in 1840, which would be purchased by the Foote family in 1878. The Footes would operate the farm for the next six generations.
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In 2012, Diana McCargo and Peter Swift, longtime neighbors of the farm, purchased the property from the Foote family in 2015 and their vision came to fruition under the name Philo Ridge Farm. In tune with the farm’s nose-to-tail butchering philosophy, everything grown and raised at Philo Ridge is sold at their market and used in the kitchen, including byproducts — both meat and wool — from their Romney See LAMBS on page 7
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