Josh and Sarah Vaillancourt are Yankee's most recent FarmStart investment. They are using funds from their investment to expand their certified organic family farm and dairy operation located in Saranac, New York. The expansion will include constructing an on farm milking processing plant as well as purchasing cows, from which they intend to make various cheeses to add to their existing line of products.
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Josh grew up and worked on
his parents 80 cow dairy located in Vermont. He holds a PhD in religious
studies from Brown University. Sarah has
a Master of Arts Degree in teaching, undergraduate degree in journalism and is
also a skilled photographer owning her own photography business.
Together Josh and Sarah and
their children raise and sell eggs, poultry meat (chicken, duck, guinea fowl
and turkeys), and pastured pork. Their products are marketed under the name of
Woven Meadows. Their customer base is
through direct sales as well as local farmers markets, direct on-farm sales
and CSA pick up sites.
Josh and Sarah truly enjoy marketing their
products locally as it provides them with a wonderful opportunity to talk
directly with their customers and get to know them on a more personal level.
They are finding that more and more customers are stressing the importance of
buying locally and knowing where their food comes from. Josh
and Sarah take pride in knowing that they are providing customers with healthy
locally grown products.
They are both very excited
about the expansion of their product line and can’t wait until the work is
completed and they are up and running.
