Stewarding our enduring agrarian heritage through active cultural practice.
Maplewood farm is a historic working hill farm in the Broad Brook valley of Vermont.
First settled by the Gifford Family around 1810, the same family lived and farmed here for over 200 years, and we are proud to steward their legacy. Read more about the history of the farm here.
Our most important crop is growing practical knowledge.
We believe that an understanding of the interplay of human culture, technology and the natural environment are essential to our understanding of our place in the world, our interpretation of history and our ability to imagine sustainable and meaningful paths forward as the human relationship with our environment evolves. Read more about our governing philosophy.
We are a collaborative campus for research into human-scale cultural techniques.
We welcome apprentices and residents here to be part of the working life of the farm. By living, working, and researching together we grow our collective understanding of our tools and techniques in the context where they were shared and developed over the centuries, that of daily working life.
Read more about what exactly we do under our programs.
“A human community, then, if it is to last long, must exert a sort of centripetal force, holding local soil and local memory in place. Practically speaking, human society has no work more important than this..”
— Wendell Berry
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