The original deed to the family farm in central Vermont specifies the property contains 108 acres. It’s a place split by a one-lane dirt road that runs north and south. On the east side of the road, there is a mostly rock-free, 10-acre hayfield and a woodlot of about the same size, lush with ash and maple. On the west side, there is another 10-acre field on which we’ve usually planted corn, the mud bog where the John Deere tractor was once stuck almost to the top of the back wheels and a fenced hillside pasture on which our herd of Jersey cows grazed.
Olney: What I would bet the farm on in 2018
