Welcome to Ten Springs Farm. The name is new, but the farm is old, the house built in the 1840s. Our parents bought this property from a dairy farmer in 1956. The driveway to the left of the barn was originally a town road and later a lane that the cows walked down to get to the pasture land below - now home to an active beaver colony, a rich wetland and animal corridor. Long before it was farm, this was (and still is) the homeland of the Mississquoi band of the Abenaki People, who have lived in northwestern Vermont for over 10,000 years.

Our father, William Linde, an architect, renovated the old farmhouse in this mid-century modern style where he and our mother raised us. He was an avid outdoorsman who, along with our mother, loved to fish and hunt and garden. We had various animals over the years - a horse, a pig, sheep, alpacas, chickens, ducks and geese. (Currently our neighbor pastures her beef cows here. You'll see them during the grazing months.) We grew up in this small town under the mountain, population ranging 800-1000. We knew everyone who passed by on the road and were a tight-knit community. The town has grown, but is still a very special place.

Sadly, our father died quite young in 1968, leaving our mother, Irene Linde, to raise us alone. She was a fiercely independent and resourceful woman who was very involved in the community, loved her home and was a true steward of the land. She was known as Paka to her 7 grand children, who enjoyed roaming the property (discovering the ten springs), gathering with their cousins over the holidays or curling up on the couch while she read to them. She died in 2018 at the age of 96, and we knew we had to find a way to preserve our home and family memories.

In 2020 and 21, the house was newly refreshed with many nods to our father's original vision. We are very happy to have been able to restore our childhood home and hope you enjoy your stay here, knowing that this house saw many happy years with this family.