Cutting Hill: A Chronicle of a Family Farm

One Vermont family, four seasons, and the real work behind your food.

This is the true story of how you get your milk. And because it unfolds on a family dairy farm in Vermont, it's also the true story of how you get delicious, Grade A maple syrup.

Author Alan Pistorius lived for a full year with the Treadway family, sharing their work and play, their joys and worries. He records all four seasons of farm life: planting in the spring, baling hay in the summer, harvesting corn in the fall, and...