Lisa McCrory owns and runs Earthwise Farm & Forest in Bethel, VT, a small homestead farm that sells vegetables, raw milk, pastured pork, and other products grown using organic, biodynamic and regenerative practices. She’s also a ski instructor and potter and, as it happens, a dowser. Audio journalist Frances Mize visited her on a recent afternoon to talk about this practice. “The vision I'd always had was an old man holding a forked witch hazel stick pacing back and forth in his field waiting to find groundwater or strike it big with oil. But it’s not always so extractive,” Frances explains.
Here’s her piece:
McCrory also teaches dowsing:
Photo courtesy of Earthwise Farm. Banner photo at the top is the early-spring garden, by Frances Mize.
You can learn more on the Earthwise website, here.
Frances Mize is a freelance journalist. She's a former Valley News reporter and the creator of the Voices of the Voters podcast from Junction Arts & Media, as well as two previous stories for Daybreak, on Karaoke Night in Claremont and drop-in dodgeball night in Lebanon.