Brothers Preserve American Icon
Nestled on a back road of Hobart, Ind., the Broken Wagon Bison farm isn’t exactly what you would expect to find in Hobart. Hobart is home to Southlake Mall, and what can be considered the commercial center of northwest Indiana. But despite that, the Koeppen brothers decided it would be the perfect place to raise a herd of buffalo. The idea came to them in 2003, when they visited Bud Koeppen’s wedding photographer’s farm in Rockville,...
A Bumper Crop
If it seems as though you can’t reach for a head of lettuce or pint of strawberries these days without running into a new farmer, well, you’re right. The number of farms, the number of farmers, and the acreage devoted to farming are all increasing in the Upper Valley, reversing a centurylong trend that began before the Great Depression. In Vermont, the number of farms rose to 7,338 in 2012, according to the USDA’s Census of...
