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About Terry B Other Sites: Terry B'sMixtape Alice Pics on Flickr
TB with baby Alice, May 2006 My interest in growing things should have started early in life, but it didn't. I was raised on a small hillside dairy farm in Chelsea, VT where my parents still live today, although the cows are now gone. This farm has been in our family since the early 1800s, and I was the fifth generation to grow up in the original farmhouse. You could say that I didn't really take to the farming life, and was out the door by age 18. I rambled around a bit during my first year or two of college, winding up in the Environmental Studies department at the University of Vermont. Here I could see the roots of what I wanted to do, but the action and philosophy left me with much to be desired. I still don't know how I wound up in the Plant and Soil Science major, but I did. Here I had a hands-on program to apply my love of the outdoors and my wish to do something productive with it. It took another year (1995 now) before I came across a flyer looking for part-time help with the UVM Apple Team. I really didn't know squat about apples aside from having picked them in our ancient farm orchard as a kid and having them squeezed at the cider mill down the road. Well, I guess I was hooked, and have loved and lived appling ever since. I worked for the Apple Team for two years, much of it full-time, while I finished my B.S. I then worked as a field supervisor for Tougas Family Farm in Northboro, MA. After a rewarding season with Mo and his family, I returned to Vermont to manage a small retail orchard in Charlotte, VT where I ran the full operation from soil to apple (or pear, peach, or plum). When the operation closed in 1999, I was asked back to the Apple Team where I have been ever since. Personally, I have been married to my wonderful wife Julie since 2001. She is a native of Vermont's Northeast Kingdom and a real trooper for putting up with my craziness at times. We bought our home and the land for the orchard in Calais, VT in 2002. We have the most beautiful daughter in the world, Alice, born to us in December 2005. We also have two cats who are pretty starved for attention these days.
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All material Copyright © Terence Bradshaw 2006-2008 terryb at lostmeadowvt dot com
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