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Hill Farm. A Tribute to Peter Dunning

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.91.2K Ratings

🗓️ 28 October 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

After forty years farming this land, Peter Dunning is getting done.

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0:00.0

Hub and Spoke. Audio Collective.

0:06.0

This is Rumblestup, America Heilman.

0:08.0

I said in the last show that I am working on a complex show that's taking a long time. I am closing on it, I am almost there.

0:17.0

But I heard recently that Peter Dunning died. He's a farmer that I interviewed a number of years ago.

0:25.0

So I want to play this story again.

0:28.0

He was an extraordinary man.

0:30.0

So here's Hill Farm with Peter Dunning.

0:34.0

Thanks for listening.

0:39.0

I was a slave here.

0:42.0

This has been my existence for 40 years and I can't imagine not being here.

0:58.0

I don't know, I say I'm up here I'm cut off and I like it.

1:08.0

People say, well, what are you going to do now? Now that I'm not farming, I don't know. Peter Dunning's farm is a Vermont hill farm.

1:17.0

136 acres of forest and orchards and wet spots and steep rocky pasture picked over by

1:26.8

farmers for hundreds of years, the kind of place that does not lend itself to the industrial production of anything.

1:34.0

Instead, it lends itself to the production of everything.

1:38.0

Peter has farmed here, mostly alone for nearly 40 years.

1:42.0

Wives have come and gone, children have come. mostly alone for nearly 40 years.

1:42.6

Wives have come and gone, children have come and gone.

1:46.4

And now he's getting done.

1:48.2

The animals are gone, and the farm is growing up around him. Here's Peter Dunning.

1:55.0

We were the first people to look at the farm just accidentally.

1:59.0

And the people who had the farm before me,

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