Cabot farm in Vermont with solar panels on the barn. Cows are grazing in foreground and leaves are changing color on the hillside.
Cabot farm in Vermont with solar panels on the barn. Cows are grazing in foreground and leaves are changing color on the hillside.

Sustainable Farming

For Cabot farmers, sustainability is a way of life. For generations, our farmers have found better ways to power their farms and care for the land and water.

Cabot cows eating hay in a barn.
Cabot cows eating hay in a barn.

Cow Power

Working with Green Mountain Power (GMP), Blue Spruce Farm in Bridport, VT, now in operation for more than a half century, served as the pilot dairy farm for GMP’s “Cow Power” program.

By way of bio-digester, this process turns cow waste into energy, allowing the farm to provide 300+ local Vermont families with electricity.

Read more
The Cabot farm family, Barstow's are posing together on the farmhouse front porch.
The Cabot farm family, Barstow's are posing together on the farmhouse front porch.

Real Farm Power

Cows in our Cooperative provide cream & electricity for Cabot Butter. Both the cream and the electricity needed to churn Cabot Butter at our West Springfield facility come from the cows at the Barstow Longview Farm.

Read more
Liberty Hill Farm in Vermont barn and bed and breakfast in the foreground with green grass and blue skies.
Liberty Hill Farm in Vermont barn and bed and breakfast in the foreground with green grass and blue skies.

Green Tourism

For over 25 years, the Kennett Family has been the proud owner of Liberty Hill Farm, a dairy farm and bed & breakfast in central Vermont hosting guests from all over the world. Meet Beth and her family and learn more about this wonderful agritourism bed & breakfast.

Read more
Cabot farmer Bob Foster poses next to one of his cows on his Vermont farm.
Cabot farmer Bob Foster poses next to one of his cows on his Vermont farm.

MooDoo

For five generations, Foster Brothers Farm has operated at the forefront of sustainability in dairy agriculture. They are pioneers in on-farm energy and installed their anaerobic digester, which generates electricity from cow manure.

Read more