Kate Duesterberg: Regenerating dairy in Vermont

Editor’s note: This commentary is by Kate Duesterberg, who lives and farms in East Thetford. She’s the co-founder of both Cedar Circle Farm and Regeneration Vermont, a nonprofit farm advocacy organization seeking solutions to the state’s dairy crisis.
My colleagues and I have been on the Vermont back roads for months, visiting all kinds of farms and talking with all varieties of farmers, from Franklin County mega-dairies to Orange County garlic growers. Since 80 percent of Verm