Finding good help

Farmhand Trish Stefanko was visited by her son Travis (center, with backpack) recently for a day of harvesting and tomato tying at the farm. Travis graduated from boot camp last winter and is now a soldier with the 101st Airborne. He was home on leave from where he is currently stationed in Kentucky. Travis will ship out for his first tour of duty in Iraq this September.

Also pictured, Trish's nephew, Ian Foertsch, who is a farmhand this summer. Ian will be starting college at Sterling College in northeastern Vermont this fall. Sterling has a large organic farm on campus, complete with solar and wind-powered barns.