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Robb Family Farm Sugarhouse

827 Ames Hill Road, W. Brattleboro, Vermont 05301
Charlie Sr. & Helen Robb, Owners
Charlie Jr., Sugaring & Dairy Management
Contact Us  |  802-258-7040

The Robb Family Farm, a southern Vermont small working dairy farm just outside Brattleboro, Vermont has been in operation for five generations. The Robbs' small, cozy Country Shop store is adjacent to their maple sugarhouse. This quaint little gift shop is filled with craft items, baked goods, Vermont cheeses, and pure maple syrup products, all in a room that is heated by an old-fashioned wood burning stove. It is from this cozy, often snow-covered sugarhouse that the Robbs pack and ship hundreds of mail order gifts each year. UPS has made the Robb's off-the-beaten-path gift shop a regular stop as Helen Robb generally has several packages going out the door even during the "off season." And during the holidays there's a flurry of boxes, some of which UPS delivers and some are taken to a nearby post office for USPS Priority Mail delivery.

"Our mail order and Internet sales through PIECES OF VERMONT have quite literally saved the farm," says Helen. "With milk prices as low as they are, we need to have other income just to keep the farm going, and that's why our maple syrup, wedding favors, and gift sales are so important."

For the past 30 years Owner Helen Robb and her family have created delightful holiday gift baskets and boxes using their own pure maple syrup, pure maple candy, Helen's fantastic fritter mix, the Robb Family pancake mixes, select Vermont cheeses, and various other delicious Vermont specialty foods.

Over the last few years the Robbs have found a niche in two other areas; Vermont wedding favors and maple sugar candy gift boxes, each of which are customized with special ribbons and gift tags. It truly is a family operation as Charlie Jr. makes the maple syrup, while Charlie Sr. fills the wedding favor bottles and other syrup containers. Helen and her small staff then fasten custom ribbons and tags, and then box items for delivery.

And if you like cheese, then you've come to the right place. Vermont cheese is well known for outstanding flavor and quality. The Robb Farm is proud to offer three of Vermont's finest cheeses - Cabot, Grafton Village Cheese, and Sugarbush Farm cheese. All three companies offer awarding winning cheeses that are not only wonderful for cooking and snacking, but they also make delicious gifts for friends and family. The Robb Farm actually provides milk from their own dairy farming to Agrimark Dairy, who in turn supplies milk to Cabot Creamery. Cabot then makes their delicious cheddars and the Robbs buy back the cheese at wholesale to be sold here online and from their Country Shop store.

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Imagine if you will, getting up at 4:00 a.m. each morning, going downstairs, starting the coffee, having a Vermonter-style breakfast (pancakes and real Vermont maple syrup, along with a slab of Cabot cheese), and then pulling on your boots before heading out to the barn to feed and milk 110 cows. Well, that's precisely the start to Charlie Jr.'s day. The start.

The rest of the day consists of tending to all the other chores associated with their small Vermont farm, from cleaning the barn and haying, to gathering maple sap during the spring maple-sugaring season.

"A farmer simply can't take a day off, because dairy cows gotta eat too!" says Charles Sr.

When it's maple sugaring season, the Robbs have a 2-3 week window of opportunity to gather maple sap and boil it into pure maple syrup. Needless to say, it's busy, busy, busy around the farm, and the sugarhouse is always bustling with activity.

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"Life is good in Brattleboro Vermont," says Helen. "We wouldn't want to live anywhere else, and we really do love farming. You have to love it. It's too tough running a small farm these days, but we've been fortunate to have a strong family and lots of help from people along the way. Brattleboro has always supported us, and that's reassuring."