Joy Nugent lives in the rambling farmhouse that her great-grandfather built in 1854, a mile or so from the village of Kinnear's Mills.

Butch Crack has a knack for cattle breeding and he figured out a long time ago that he’d rather sell cows than milk them.

It was visiting Brome Fair as a youngster during the Great Depression when Sherman Young first caught a glimpse of his future in farming: a dairy herd made up of the loveliest purebred cows he’d ever laid eyes on.