a calendar venue and fight people to come to your bond and learn something new and i've seen you have people there who we've really really enjoyed the work we've we've gradually grown into the house and grown in the community you have to interrupt for a moment because i want to commend all the high ceiling because when he came here he also wanted to  farmhouse and the ceilings were always too low for me so we couldn't find scenic so that's an important point here and i think really over time have house where she was living and had several generations before her remember meeting here and it was it was interesting meeting some of the older people in town and she knew about us she knew where we were living she knew the farm here and so on and i remember her saying something that stuck with me she talked about the notion that some people come and go from the town which is fine and some people  stay she talked about character and she said her thinking was that those who stayed really helped develop and contribute to the character of the town and i didn't really understand what she was talking about except she explained that you if you stay you become accountable in some ways that if you move in and you don't you're not accountable and you know we we wouldn't paint the house re if we were staying because we get we would have that accountability and that responsibility so i've we've tried to live here as she suggested with a kind of responsibility and a kind of accountability that to the town to the character to the aesthetics and tried to stay true to that over our time here so it's been a that a wonderful time we're very happy what brought you here so we had this  dream of the rural life and and trying to find a certain simplicity in our lives we wanted to raise a family in that environment and we've actually found it so i think that was the motive it's full and happy and it's no trouble and so on and we've learned otherwise that that it's not it's that difficult if you really get into raising animals and and living with together polly was working with the blind and so on and we just everything fit together but you know we had jobs and and found this place of tell aware of the mountain to tell you the truth we found the valley the pleasant valley just absolutely beautiful and so we you know we looked elsewhere we looked around in the south and and russian i next i'll chose to live in cavendish from a as you probably know and i think is a beautiful story about his time here he is you may know he was protected his privacy was protected by this by his community and they cared for him and his family and there's a lovely story of when he gorbachev left words died and it was a new reign over there he could return to russia and he had to go he felt he had to go to his community to ask permission to leave and it's a true story it's in the cabin dish town records and he went there and he was use explaining how his family had been thankful and happy about living in the town and how the he appreciated the care of the people and so on and he spoke i think quite movingly about from a he could have lived anywhere in the world  but he chose to live here because as he said i don't know whether this is quoting it exactly but it's something like if the world is paved over with oppression and tyranny the of freedom the seeds of democracy are sown in vermont and they will rise through the concrete they will go through their current growth through the concrete and thrive because of our government because of our connection that's me but that's what people will say they'll stay when they talk about the politics i have to try and explain that you know what our politics represent who we are really i mean at one point we had a it yeah that's a good question i i i work for no for the northeast organic farming association and one of our jobs is to connect farms  schools work with school gardens and to try and find ways to bring the knowledge of farmers into the community such that farmers are appreciated  only as farmers but as teachers and that they held a vast amount of an amazing amount of information and knowledge everything from animal has been treated i mean it's just endless crops and so on and so it so i started  because i thought it would be you know if you name something it will take on its own life usually and so i started because it was a mechanism to try and bring knowledge into the community spirit so that had a purpose really and it's also to the purpose also is part of our also our job my job with nova is to bring notice to local agriculture within the community in all sorts of other ways and you give an example often there's a fragmented sense of agriculture related community agriculture related work in a community there's a town energy commission there's a group of sustainable agricultural or sustainable farming something rather there often many different groups working for the i hold a bias about that such that it's in some ways taken the activity on the street and it's put it into the cyber arena and the value of a potluck the value of bringing people together is that it really is a genuine way of relating it's not a it's not an email relationship it's a genuine human relationship and what happens is when people that don't know each other come together they often find they have something in common as an example the value of the pot luck the value of what cap is trying to do with the pot lucks is that if you and i had never met and i was i might be i have all sorts of extra tomatoes in my garden that i've grown and you might be making salsa on a small scale and that's the effort there is to bring together there's a traditional farming atmosphere a traditional farming community and then there's a newer farming community the traditional farming community tends to be the older people in town and often they don't know each other so the value ideals they don't the person who's growing some sort of new age like product which is as important as dairy farming might not know each other so the reason we have the pig groceries and we have these potlucks again is to bring the older farming community together with the new or how many people do you have here it is it's a  what you have to really wait we have i was we all sort of laugh actually because we had this big pig it was ninety nine pounds and we had everybody brought some kind of dish to share so we had all this food and there were one hundred sixty people how did the sixty you know it's there wasn't there was about a hands i think there were three or four cupcakes left over i'm not kidding there were cupcakes or there was some kind of cake theme be a beer making mead making wine making all sorts of interesting spirits and so the theme was come to the potluck share your brewing experience the local television is is the way in which people learn about each other a lot it's fantastic we couldn't do this i couldn't do this community organizing with a computer tell you provide interested to be part of it please let me know