Margaret Freeman Osha

From a cabin overlooking a sheep pasture in Brookfield, Vermont, Margaret Freeman Osha mines New England’s agricultural past for practical wisdom to share with the readers of her hometown newspaper. Her deep love of Vermont and its people shapes every page of A Farmhouse Notebook, a collection of stories, drawings, and recipes first published in the White River Valley Herald. The book centers on producing, preserving, and preparing food— knowledge that Osha began sharing with friends and neighbors through cooking classes held in her farmhouse kitchen. Her wisdom applies wherever people seek a deeper connection to the food they eat and the land it springs from. In the book’s foreword, Herald editor Tim Calabro writes that “readers love Margaret’s prose, and they love the care with which she catalogs the fleeting Vermont culture in our pages. But it is her deep connection to our shared past, perhaps more than anything, that explains the joy in reading her stories.”