The payoff for good land stewardship is enjoying the abundance of the natural landscape. Whether its waking up to the chorus of songbirds in springtime, watching the soaring raptors on summer thermals, or collapsing in a chair after a great day of hunting in the fall, Twin View Farm offers a wealth of [...]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in one of LandVests properties? We invite our owners to tell us a bit about their experience, what they love about their homes and a bit of their [...]

America has always been about reinvention. Disruption from the Industrial Revolution and global competition (sound familiar?) strained Vermont agriculture at the end of the 19th century. In an effort to modernize agriculture, agricultural big thinkers, often funded by wealthy philanthropists, encouraged the development of model farms. From [...]

Editor's Note: Below is the remarkable story of a200-year-old Vermont farm and its many incarnations.The place hastransitioned from asubsistence hill farm to a model agricultural estate to today'sultra-boutique vineyard with its grand summer mansion and original outbuildings, coolly reinvented for the 21st [...]

When I was at Bennington College in the mid-70s, on many weekends I would drive up to Randolph Center, a 2.5 hour drive, to stay with a friend who raised Morgan horses. I became very good at navigating back roads to get there, as it was boring always going the speedy way, Rt. 7 to I [...]

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to live in one of LandVests properties? We invite our owners to tell us a bit about their experience, what they love about their homes and a bit of their history. The owners of [...]

In its May/June 2018 issue, Northeast Equestrian Life, a magazine celebrating a passion for horses, featured LandVests special listing, Hope Island. Hope Island is an 86 acre island kingdom offering a main residence, tavern, carriage house, guest house, boat house, numerous barns, and equestrian facilities. A deep-water pier affords [...]

Old houses fascinate me. Perhaps thats because I grew up in a new one. My parents were very fond of their small, suburban ranch house, bought in 1939. My mother, whose childhood home had been large and rambling, told me that it had been her dream to live in a modern house, all on one floor. My father, who had grown up in poverty, was just [...]

Finally, spring is in the air

Greenhouses are beautiful glass structures full of life that cultivate plants and help to keep them warm during the cold months. There is a certain allure to these architectural glass wonders. With spring in the air and [...]