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The house did not have electricity, so members used kerosene lamps to light the dinner table. The flowers pictured were from the fields around the farm.

Wood splinters on the floor of the woodshed in Frog Run Farm

Martha Lasley and David Houriet in the barn at Frog Run Farm. Martha was saying goodbye to David

Children from Mad Brook Farm, a nearby commune

House that Robert Houriet and Mary Mathias built in Derby, where they lived until they purchased Frog Run Farm. It was the site of gatherings at which people looked for land to build the farm in April - June 1972.

Martha and Robert standing in the sugarhouse at Frog Run Farm OR Derby house

Robert Houriet, in a pensive moment

Bill and Iola Kelley, farmers from Newport, Vt., who mentored the Frog Run Farm inhabitants. Bill offered for the Frog Run Farm to take over his vegetable stand in Derby. They declined because they wanted to farm their own land for their own use

Denise O'Brian and Mike, last name unknown, on the front porch at Frog Run

Robert Houriet and Steve Crevoshay sugaring at the Derby house. Steve later started and ran Newport Natural, a natural foods store in Newport, VT.

Anatole Trudeau at his sawmill on the Frog Run Farm property. They bought the farm from him. The first year they purchased the farm, he was still operating the sawmill, and helped the members mill the lumber for the sugarhouse. Later, he dismantled…

Martha Lasley with the new team of horses, Henry (black) and Bill (buckskin in foreground), and first attempt at plowing - plow broke moments after this picture was taken. The neighbor from across the road came over to plow the garden with his…