When I was growing up in North Pomfret, Vermont, we still put up hay loose-my mother drove the team while my dad built the load. Come lambing time they alternated getting up several times a night to check the ewes and assist with birthing. Implicitly, for generations farming women have enjoyed true equality, not only in the work but also in the fortune and beauty as well as the grief and uncertainties of this life. Vermont Farm Women celebrates this wonderfully and honestly.
…Jeffrey Lent, author of Lost Nation and In the Fall

Family farms are part of America’s fabric, but the place of women in traditional farming roles has been virtually passed over by historians until quite recently when Peter Miller released Vermont Farm Women.

… WomensENews

As someone who loves farms and farming, how could I not be delighted in a book about women who share these passions? They are the future of New England small farming.

... Eliot Coleman, Maine small farmer and author of New Organic Grower

Not all Vermont farm women are idealistic, and not all are taking the road less-traveled. But they are all remarkable, and collectively, they have a fascinating story to tell, one that is vital to the future of Vermont. It’s a story that is beautifully told and photographed by Peter Miller in Vermont Farm Women.

… Tom Slayton, Vermont Public Radio

Anyone who thinks there's no future for the small farm in Vermont and America must read this book. This collection of stunning photographs and sensitive essays is as original and independent-minded as the remarkable women who inspired it. Vermont Farm Women is a hymn to a way of life that makes me proud to live in the Green Mountains.

… Howard Frank Mosher, author of Where the Rivers Flow North and Stranger in the Kingdom

The woman of the farm-she could be a wife, she could be a mother, she could be the farmer herself. No matter which she is, she's still the most important person on that farm and don't let nobody tell you no different.

… George Woodard, Film Actor and Organic Dairy Farmer

An essay, a paean, to both farming and women in Vermont this book in both words – often in the words of the farmers themselves – and the unsentimental photographs pay homage to a way of life struggling to survive. I think it is the dogged will and gritty determination of these women in the face of what most of the time must seem like overwhelming odds, and the women’s intense awareness of the social and political implications of farming, that touched me most.

… David Budbill, Poet, from his speech awarding Vermont Farm Women the Best Illustrated book of 2002 at the Vermont Book Professionals Association award ceremony

I loved everything about this book from the feel of the cover to the choice of the women portrayed inside. The faces of the women were so familiar, I felt like I’d known each of them personally, even though they farm in Vermont, I farm out West, and we probably will never meet in person. I love having a book on the coffee table that reflects rural women’s lives and inspires conversation.

… Rural Womyn Zone

Vermont Farm Women is carried by photographs and stories alike. But also by the women whose stories Miller chose to tell.

… Sally Pollack, The Burlington Free Press