About us

Len is a semi-retired educator, logger, and woodworker and an enthusiastic student of the natural history of Brandon, VT. In 1983, he founded Belgian Woodworks, a fine woodworking and sustainable forest management service originally based out of Starksboro, VT. The name for the business references the Belgian draft horses he used for forest management and logging.  Now days, we use a diesel tractor and logging winch, but Kubota Woodworks doesn't have the same ring. 

Jennie’s love of the natural world was inherited at young age from her father’s relationship with wildlife and the woods, which he shared with her. Deeply engrained in Jennie also are the traditions and customs of her Vermont ancestors whose livelihoods relied on working the land and the forests. This heritage (or DNA) has guided her lifestyle to live close to the land. 

Jennie’s aim is to live on Wolf Tree Forest only in those ways that will promote the wildlife and the ecosystems that abound here. She is also fascinated with learning about the activities of the first local European settlers, some who may have lived on the land she now calls home.