Words by Ben Hewitt
Photography by Dylan Griffin
Fable Farm Fermentory Brings Cider + Community Together
All by Ben Hewitt
Trial by Snow
Words by Ben Hewitt
Photography by Matt Kiedaisch
“We’d hike up the mountain by the light of our headlamps and ski until the wee hours of the morning.“
Ray Vega and the Art of Listening
Words by Ben Hewitt
Photography by Dylan Griffin
“What I hope happens at the end of my class is that at least one student tells me they’re listening differently.”
VT Rigs
Words by Ben Hewitt
Photography by Dylan Griffin
"It’s a pathetic little rig that can barely hold 70 on the highway, but I sorta like it..."
Then We Could All Be Prophets
By: Ben Hewitt
Photograph: Dylan Griffin
"I’d prefer to kill animals I’ve known and loved, if only because it means I got to know and love them."
From the Ground Up
By: Ben Hewitt
"Of all the organizations doing good work around food and ag in VT... I’ve long felt that Rural Vermont is unique in its holistic grasp of the issues at hand and its willingness to dive headfirst into the pigpen of policy."
Bringing What it May
By: Ben Hewitt
Photograph: Dylan Griffin
"Now, like so many of my friends and family, I know a new uneasiness, one that persists even as I remind myself that what seems certain and solid is never truly so."
Nothing in Particular (or maybe everything specifically)
By: Ben Hewitt
Photograph: Dylan Griffin
"I believe that Luke is a genius, although I suspect his particular brand of genius was once much more common than it is today."
Dignified Death be Damned!
By: Ben Hewitt
Photograph: Dylan Griffin
"The fire that heats this home is like a newborn baby, wanting only to be lovingly tended and fed no matter what the costs might be and who might bear them."
Only the Beginning
By: Ben Hewitt
"What I’m saying is, you harvest a potato. You kill an animal."
There Was No One Else
By: Ben Hewitt
Photographs: Penny Hewitt
"I think most of us long for something more meaningful than simple social community, if even we’re fortunate enough to have that (and plenty don’t)."
The Most Important Answer of All
By: Ben Hewitt
Photographs: Dylan Griffin
"We don’t tend to talk the big picture stuff ... but rather the day-in, day-out minutia of our respective lives and the surrounding community, which is, in fact, pretty big to us:"
The Heavens Have No Reply
By: Ben Hewitt
Photographs: Dylan Griffin
"Some people believe that cows use their horns to communicate with the heavens."
I Imagine
By: Ben Hewitt
Photograph: Dylan Griffin
It is my curse that I often cannot stop imagining the lives of people I meet, even fleetingly.