Forest Echo Farm History

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Autumn view of Farmhouse field.
Forest Echo Farm was founded in 1969 by several families to provide a rural family retreat. The founding members shared a belief in the principles of Quakerism and used those principles to form the organizational structure and approach to welcoming others as visitors, and stewards.

Over the decades the organizational membership has grown to include other families and individuals committed to conserving this Vermont property. Many members are not Quaker, but the founding principles continue to guide us as we work towards our goals of preserving and maintaining the land, enjoying it, and sharing it.

The Forest Echo Farm community is dedicated to preserving our land, maintaining a balance between our human presence and the natural character of the forest, lakes, and mountains. Through the Vermont Land Trust, we have set aside 80% of our land to ensure that it will never be developed.

The Farm also belongs to the Green Mountain Bear Corridor and the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. We have cooperative relationships with Farm & Wilderness summer camps, the Catamount Trail Association and the Vermont Cavers Association. 

Traditional, ancestral territory of Wabanaki (Dawnland Confederacy) and N’dakina (Abenaki / Abénaquis) First Nations; we gratefully acknowledge the Native Peoples on whose ancestral homelands we gather, as well as current Native communities.

Our Mission
Our community works cooperatively to protect and preserve Forest Echo Farm (FEF) land, waterways, and infrastructure for member and visitor enjoyment while enabling wildlife and nature to flourish.

Community
  • We value connection, shared efforts, and fellowship among our intergenerational FEF community.
  • We value thoughtfulness, kindness, and mutual respect among FEF community, neighbors, renters, and visitors.
  • We value inclusivity and strive to support the diversity of our FEF community, renters, and visitors.
  • We work collaboratively and strive to live the Mission via goals and actions.
  • We honor the Quaker principles on which FEF was founded by continuing to conduct FEF business cooperatively and with decision making by consensus, starting group meetings and gatherings with moments of silence or circle, convening a clearness committee for prospective members, and respecting each individual voice.
Stewardship
  • We consider the impact of our actions locally and globally and, when possible, aim to help others do so as well.
  • We aim to contribute to the climate solution by protecting our forests and wetlands, conserving our soil and water, and enabling our land's natural biodiversity to flourish.
  • We aim to pass on FEF to future generations of members.
  • We strive for FEF’s financial stability.

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Farm Pond
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Raspberries 
Excitement 
Streams, Stars, Sunrises 
Trails, Trees, Tiny Pond

Echoes
Canoes, Cidering
Hay Fields
Oaks, Old Things

Ferns, Fun, Fishing
Apples, Auctions, Animals
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Meadows, Moon and Moose


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