Vermont’s small farms: Adam’s Berry Farm

For 25 years, Adam Hausmann has worked his own farm, Adam’s Berry Farm, a 57 acre organic operation in Charlotte, Vermont. Hausmann and Jessica Sanford, his wife, own, manage and operate the farm year-round. During peak growing season, from June to September, they are joined by both migrant and student farm workers. The farm produces primarily blueberries, strawberries and raspberries and works in collaboration with Pollen and Nectar, a flower business that Sanford owns, she said. Sanford has seen a lot of students say they want to be farmers, and feels like everyone should work on a farm a little bit. But people do not realize how much work it really is, she said. “You can’t have a 40 hour work week, your social life is nothing,” she said. Farming is not the only way to be involved in agriculture. Job fields like agricultural policy, land conservation and market development are all avenues that could help farmers, Sanford said.

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