Author: Peggy Farabaugh

She is a CEO who brakes for salamanders, has bottle-fed rescued squirrels and spent her vacation building furniture for a rural school in Costa Rica. She believes in the future and in the people who will build it. A former distance-learning professor at Tulane University with a master’s in environmental health & safety, she turned an interest in forest conservation and endangered species into a growing, local business. She delivers rainforest statistics at breakneck speed, but knows how to slow down and appreciate the beauty of a newly finished piece of heirloom furniture.

Vermont Public Radio: A Cross-Border Collaboration to Protect Monarch Butterfly Habitat

August 20, 2016August 1, 2018 Peggy Farabaugh Leave a comment

Last updated on August 1st, 2018 at 04:59 pm

Monarch butterflies are known for epic migrations, traveling thousands of miles every year. Their route can span from Mexico to Canada, which makes it difficult to protect monarchs, because there’s no one single habitat to preserve.

Peggy Farabaugh, is the founder and CEO of Vermont Woods Studios in Vernon, a sustainable furniture company. She’s trying to create the kind of collaboration that will protect monarchs. She has joined forces with Jose Luis Alvarez, a Mexican tree nurseyman who started the organization, Forests For Monarchs.

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http://digital.vpr.net/post/cross-border-collaboration-protect-monarch-butterfly-habitat#stream/0

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This blog is written by your friends at Vermont Woods Studios. Check out our Vermont made furniture and home decor online and visit our showroom and art gallery at Stonehurst, the newly restored 1800s farmhouse nestled in the foothills of the Green Mountains.

Food Donation to Load the Latchis

August 18, 2016August 3, 2018 Peggy Farabaugh Leave a comment

Last updated on August 3rd, 2018 at 11:13 am

Every year the local radio station hosts a food drive at the historic Latchis Hotel & Theater in Downtown Brattleboro for our neighbors in need. The goal of the event is to load every seat at the theater, 750 in total. This year, Megan and Peggy collected five bags full of food to donate to the event.

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Metamorphosis of a Vermont Furniture Showroom

August 18, 2016 Peggy Farabaugh 1 Comment

Inlaid monarch butterfly on maple end table — Breeze Verdant inlayed this beautiful monarch butterfly into a maple end table that Ken and Kyle built. It’s on display at Stonehurst until August 26th.

With our Save the Monarchs tour coming up next week, we decided to dress this Vermont furniture showroom up for the occasion. Ken and Kyle built a beautiful maple end table and brought it over to Breeze Verdant who inlaid that amazing monarch image above. There are actually over 100 tiny pieces of wood and metal in it!

Monarch Artistry in our Vermont Furniture Showroom — The Save the Monarchs banner, pamphlets & stickers were created by our ace artist, photographer & all around creative genius, Nina. That’s a monarch nursery in the upside-down mesh clothes hamper. Several monarchs in all different stages of metamorphosis are inside. Hopefully some will be able to join us for the tour.

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Hell No, We Won’t Mow!

August 8, 2016October 11, 2022 Peggy Farabaugh Leave a comment

Last updated on October 11th, 2022 at 04:16 pm

"Hell No, We Won't Mow" — A monarch butterfly on it’s favorite source of food and habitat. Please join our “Hell No, We Won’t Mow” campaign and ask your local road crews if there are areas where mowing can be delayed until October. Photo by Elizabeth Howard, founder of Journey North.

7 Ways You Can Help Save Monarch Butterflies From Extinction

Frequent flyers on this blog are well schooled on the plight of the beautiful monarch butterfly. Over the last couple decades the population has declined by over 90% leaving the monarch in imminent danger of extinction. Once a billion butterflies strong, there are now only about 50 million and the need to conserve their habitat is urgent. The good news is that, with your help and a little cooperation from Mother Nature, it may not be too late. Here are 7 things you can do to help the monarch make an epic comeback in 2016-2017:

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Organic Authority: How to Make Certain Your Wood Furniture is Sustainable

July 26, 2016August 14, 2018 Peggy Farabaugh Leave a comment

Last updated on August 14th, 2018 at 01:46 pm

There are infinite ways that you can have a better impact on the environment. In fact, making a commitment to be more eco-friendly can sometimes feel overwhelming because there are so many ways to do it. Where do you start, what priorities should you make, when is it okay to cheat a little? One possible area to focus on is your home, specifically with furniture solutions.

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http://www.organicauthority.com/how-to-make-certain-that-your-wood-furniture-is-sustainable/

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3 Amigos & A Butterfly

July 17, 2016November 15, 2016 Peggy Farabaugh Leave a comment

Last updated on November 15th, 2016 at 08:22 pm

Save the Monarchs Tour

One of the monarchs we raised at Vermont Woods Studios last summer. — The monarch butterfly brought Jose Luis Alvarez, Francois Simard and me together in our efforts to help save it from extinction.

Can 3 World Leaders & 3 Small Businesses Save the Monarch Butterfly?

Last month President Obama met with Mexico’s President Enrique Peña Nieto and Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau to discuss climate change and how our three countries can save essential pollinators from extinction. Independent of that meeting, another Mexican, a Canadian and an American were working on the same thing. Jose Luis Alvarez, Francois Simard and I somehow connected because we all love nature and believe that small businesses can & should have a positive effect on the world around us. The part of nature we’re focused on is the beautiful (and endangered) monarch butterfly.

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Daughters of Toleza Scholarship

July 14, 2016August 3, 2018 Peggy Farabaugh Leave a comment

Last updated on August 3rd, 2018 at 11:18 am

For the past several years, we’ve donated to the Daughters of Toleza Scholarship, a NPO that assists young girls in Malawi get the financial support they need to attend school. This year we helped three young girls graduate and all are preparing to take the national college entrance examinations this month. Way to go girls!!

http://www.daughtersoftoleza.org/

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Brattleboro Reformer: Monarch Butterflies Get Some Local Help

June 24, 2016August 2, 2018 Peggy Farabaugh Leave a comment

Last updated on August 2nd, 2018 at 02:24 pm

The creatures that soar in the air, displaying their orange, black and white patterned wings known as the Monarch butterfly, are now few and far between in Vermont.

The Monarch population has dropped 90 percent in North America and Mexico, according to Peggy Farabaugh, founder of Vermont Woods Studios. The monarchs cannot survive without milkweed plants. As caterpillars they only eat milkweed plants and as butterflies, they need milkweed to lay their eggs.

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https://www.reformer.com/stories/monarch-butterflies-get-some-local-help,151033

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Milkweed Seedling Giveaway

May 26, 2016August 3, 2018 Peggy Farabaugh Leave a comment

Last updated on August 3rd, 2018 at 11:29 am

In late May our pods filled with milkweed seeds started to sprout. While some will be given away during our Save the Monarchs Tour with Jose Luis Alvarez and planted here at our showroom, we wanted to allow those interested to have a chance to stop by and pick up a few pods for their homes. If properly cared for common milkweed can reach heights as high as 7 feet.

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Mick Jagger, Willie Nelson & Vermont Woods Studios

May 23, 2016January 2, 2018 Peggy Farabaugh Leave a comment

Last updated on January 2nd, 2018 at 03:20 pm

Our friends at the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and REVERB have teamed up with rock stars the likes of Maroon 5, Guster, Mick Jagger, Willie Nelson, Sting, Jason Mraz, Dave Matthews, Deborah Harry and dozens of other musicians to bring attention to a subject that’s at the core of our mission at Vermont Woods Studios:

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