This week we visit with Helen Whybrow at Knoll Farm in Fayston, Vermont. 

Helen Whybrow is the author of The Salt Stones: Seasons of a Shepherd's Life (Longlisted for the National Book Award & Winner of the Vermont Book Award), A Man Apart: Bill Coperthwaite’s Radical Experiment in Living and Dead Reckoning: Great Adventure Writing from 1800–1900. She is also the editor of many anthologies, including Hearth: A Global Conversation on Community, Identity, and Place and Coming to Land in a Troubled World. Her writing has appeared in Cagibi, Hunger Mountain, EatingWell, and Orion. She is a visiting professor at Middlebury College and has taught at the Bread Loaf Environmental Writers’ Conference. She lives in the Green Mountains of Vermont, where she shepherds a two-hundred-acre organic farm.

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For more on Helen and Knoll Farm: knollfarm.org

Helen's Books on the Bed:

The Serpent of Stars by Jean Giono

IWÍGARA: The Kinship of Plants and People by Enrique Salmón

Sprout Lands: Tending the Endless Gift of Trees by William Bryant Logan

Rehearsing with Gods: Photographs and Essays on the Bread & Puppet Theater by Ronald T. Simon and Marc Estrin

House Made of Dawn by N. Scott Momaday

Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape by Lauret Savoy

Matt's Gifts for Helen:

Land, Language, and Women by Julie L. Reed

On Wholeness: Anishinaabe Pathways to Embodiment and Collective Liberation by Quill Christie-Peters

Dispatches from Pluto: Lost and Found in the Mississippi Delta by Richard Grant