John Rodgers Weed Farmer

Rumble Strip

Erica Heilman / Rumble Strip

Places & Travel, Personal Journals, Society & Culture

4.9 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 November 2023

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Summary

John Rodgers is a stonemason in West Glover. He also runs a construction business, plows driveways and rents properties, and for sixteen years he served in the Vermont Legislature in both the House and the Senate. He works seven days a week, and a huge reason he works so hard is so he can hold onto the farm that's been in his family for 200 years. It was a dairy when he was growing up there. Now he's growing weed for Vermont retailers. I've always been really curious about weed culture in Vermont before it was legal, which John knows a thing or two about. And in a time when so many farms are going out in this state, I wanted to talk with someone who's finding creative ways to keep his farm in farming.

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0:00.0	Hub and Spoke. Audio Collective.
0:06.0	This is Rumbel Strip by America Heilman.
0:08.0	Uh, Erdpert Poison.
0:11.5	Drip Queen. Gold mine skunk. Dripp Queen
0:15.0	Gold Mine skunk skitter trail
0:17.0	k2 skunk
0:19.0	r2 skunk
0:20.0	r2 skunk
0:21.0	sorry mess that one up.
0:23.0	Um, fit check,
0:25.0	tater barrel, groovy banana, dom pee, daddy fatacks. Blue Dream.
0:34.0	Can't forget Blue Gee.
0:37.0	Yep.
0:38.0	Yep.
0:40.0	That's John Rogers listing all the varieties of weed he's growing at the moment.
0:45.1	John runs a construction business up in West Glover. He plows driveways. He rents properties. He's a stonemason.
0:52.0	For 16 years he served in the Vermont legislature, which in the
0:56.2	winter meant that he would drive down to the state capital in Montpelier during
0:59.8	the session and then drive home and plow driveways all night. Now he grows weed on his farm, which used to be a dairy farm and which has been in his family for 200 years.
1:10.0	John is a hipneck, and if I had to break it down I would say that he's about 35% hippie and 65% redneck.
1:19.0	John is a fierce defender of same sex marriage and he has more guns than anyone I have ever met
1:26.3	and he works harder than anyone I know.
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