Gilfeather Turnip Festival & Contest
On Main Street
Wardsboro, Vermont
Home of The State Vegetable
October 26, 2024
For 2025: it's on 10/25
Articles & Stories
A simple internet search will list literally hundreds of newspaper and magazine articles, websites, radio interviews, some videos, and podcast episodes going back nearly 20 years all about the Gilfeather Turnip. You'll find hundreds of recipes, gardening tips for growing turnips, and seed vendors. We sell only the true Vermont Gilfeather Turnip seeds. (There are even more articles and info sources in the Wayback Machine.)
Here are just a few articles we've picked out from various years. (Links open as pdf files.) And, a free recipe.
Horticulture Magazine Nov. 1981
The State Vegetable Bill H65 May 2016
Slow Food USA Ark of Taste June 2016
Brattleboro Reformer Oct. 2016
State Symbols USA Vermont 2016
Mother Earth Gardner Aug. 2018
Free Recipe for Gilfeather Turnip Souffle
Old photos courtesy of Gilfeather Farm
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Felix and Maria Gilfeather at the farmhouse on Gilfeather Farm, Wardsboro, Vermont.
Parents of John Gilfeather.
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Farmer John Gilfeather
Born: Jan. 16, 1865
Manchester, Vermont
Died: May 1, 1944
Wardsboro, Vermont (aged 79, never married)
Gravesite: Fairview Cemetery, Wardsboro, Vermont
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2019 Harvesting Gilfeather Turnips in the fields at Gilfeather Farm, Wardsboro, Vermont.
Crystel Holden of Wardsboro and her history of the Gilfeather Family and Farm, 2017
