In two decades, Jack and Anne Lazor went from raising six cows and delivering their milk locally to running Butterworks Farm, a profitable dairy products business best known for producing quality yogurt - up to 7,000 quarts a week. They sell yogurt to 45 groceries and co-ops in Vermont as well as a natural food distributor. They also produce cream and cheese, and sell flours, sunflower oil, dry beans and buckwheat - all of it produced organically - to local health food stores.

The Lazors integrate their farm parts. For example, they grow all of the feed for their cows. Then they compost the cows' straw bedding and apply it to their fields in the fall. Anne treats all of the Jersey cows using homeopathic methods, and is well known for her success and willingness to share her knowledge. The Lazors host elementary school children for tours, train interns, and allow USDA and extension agencies to conduct studies on their land. They have consciously decided not to expand past their ability to run the farm as a single family.