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Favorite Places On The Farm

We're excited to open for the 2025 season this weekend! To celebrate, we asked Shelburne Farms staff members to share their favorite places on our working farm campus.

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New trees help renew an earlier landscape

This season, we planted 89 new trees along our the roads of our farm campus. They're all part of our landscape renewal plan.

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Vermont’s Extraordinary Spring Ephemerals

Discovering the adaptations of our resilient early wildflowers.

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What is Forest Bathing? with Duncan Murdoch

We asked Duncan Murdoch, a Certified Nature & Forest Therapy guide, a few questions about "Forest Bathing" walks, which he offers regularly at the Farm.

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New Wildlife Tracker Supports Community Science

A new Motus radiotelemetry tracking station has been installed at the dairy. It's a great way for us to support wildlife research at the farm and beyond.

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Discover Maple Sugaring at Shelburne Farms

Join educators Jed and Cat as they introduce you to the sugarbush and the sugarhouse as you discover the story of sap to syrup!

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Have you thanked a bat, today?

Find out what's important and cool about bats in Vermont and beyond, and why their survival is threatened.

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Farm staff member receives UVM Award for maple sugaring education

Lynn Wolfe, Shelburne Farms Assistant Market Gardener, was awarded UVM's 2020 James W. Marvin Award in Conservation & Science for her work in maple sugaring education.

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Going to Bat for Bats

The Farm's long-term effort to provide for embattled little brown bats (but keep them out of the Inn!) is bearing fruit — and bats!

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Have you thanked a vulture, today?

What makes vultures so fascinating, unique, and ecologically valuable? Find out in this online adaptation of our regular family program about vultures!

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1611 Harbor Road Shelburne, Vermont 05482 

Telephone: 802-985-8686

An education nonprofit on a mission to inspire and cultivate learning for a sustainable future through its programs, place, and products. Home to the Institute for Sustainable Schools, our historic campus is a 1,400-acre diversified farm located on the homelands of the Winooskik band of the Abenaki.

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Shelburne Farms is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization (Tax ID #03-0229347)