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Sara Burke was a vegetarian before she was a beef farmer.
She and her husband Dan Burke, who together run Atlas Hoofed It Farm on state Route 3 in Vermontville, also never expected to buy a decommissioned missile silo. But sometimes life in the Adirondacks flows in unexpected directions.
The remnants of the property’s nuclear past are still in place, with the deep silo shaft partially flooded, but the Burkes hope nearly two decades of regenerative farming practices have helped restore the land and heal its spirit.
“We wanted to try and change the karma of the place back to something that promotes community and sustainable farming,” Sara Burke said at the outset of a farm tour last week.
Burke, who also works as a nurse in Saranac Lake and previously worked as a water chemist for the Adirondack Lake Survey Corporation, hosted the tour as part of the Adirondack North Country Association’s (ANCA) annual Climate and Energy Conference.
Read the full article in the Adirondack Explorer.