Robert S. Foster, known as Butch, by his friends and acquaintances, spent the last forty-plus years as an excavation and site development contractor.
His passions over the years have included beekeeping, aviation, woodsmanship, playing guitar and blues harps, song writing, fly fishing and upholding “old school” New England values and traditions.
Along with his wife Mary, he developed a farmstead known as Old Orchard Farm, hosting an antique cider mill, bakery, and sound stage for homespun folk music events—a place where folks can sense the simplicity of old traditions and a small bit of Vermont’s serenity.
Today Butch enjoys making music, writing, restoring old things, ancient native Indian cultures along with the quiet natural beauty and energy of Vermont’s Green Mountains.