About VNAP

Our mission is to support the independent growers and garden centers demand for soil products by providing high quality materials and backing this with superior service.
In addition, we encourage the composting of agricultural by-products in the Lake Champlain region through the use of efficient and economical technologies.  The results of this process are environmental stewardship and economic benefit to the composter and community.

The Foster Brothers Farm from the skies above Middlebury
Vermont Natural Ag Products, Inc. (VNAP) is a subsidiary of the Foster Brothers Farm in Middlebury, Vermont.  Foster Brothers is a fifth-generation family farm in Vermont's beautiful Champlain Valley.

The Foster Brothers farm began its dairy operation in 1941 and incorporated in 1971.  Today, the farm covers 1537 acres in Addison County.  The dairy has a herd of more than 630 cows, of which more than 370 are milked.  The herd produces over 8 million pounds of milk each year.

During the energy crisis of the late 1970's, Foster Brothers Farm, Inc. started producing more than milk to keep the family business going strong.   They began producing electricity from cow manure (and continue to do so today).  This electricity is used to provide power for the farm and the excess is sold to the local utility.  To produce the electricity, the Fosters built an anaerobic digester which uses bacteria to break down the manure into methane gas.  The methane gas is used as a clean burning, environmentally safe source of fuel for electrical generation.

Not satisfied with simply recovering energy from the manure, the Fosters used their "Yankee ingenuity" to take the process of digestion a step further.  The Fosters began composting in 1989. What started out as a way to better utilize nutrients and supply a local market quickly grew into a regional business as word spread about the superior quality of materials that the farm was producing.

Vermont Natural Ag Products, Inc. has taken over where the Fosters left off and is now a leader in the production of soils, composts, and growing mixes in the Northeastern United States.  Using the digested manure, we have been able to develop an organic product line that make growing a little bit more productive and, of course, a little bit more natural.

Vermont Natural Ag Products is committed to producing the the finest composted products found anywhere.  All products are constantly tested to ensure they are up to the standards of our professional users.

For more about our continuing growth, check out what's new at VNAP.

Vermont Natural Ag Products, Inc.
297 Lower Foote Street
Middlebury, VT 05753

Phone: 800-639-4511
Phone: 802-388-1137
Fax: 802-388-1135

Email: moodoovt@sover.net

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