Tilia Tea’s Hilltop Avenue microfarm and the adjoining property in Barre on July 31, 2026. That’s when Amanda Gustin, a Barre city councilor, mentioned that she had an overgrown patch of land Terway was welcome to use — and a new business opportunity was born. “One thing that I do at the end of every harvest season, when we put in a new microfarm, is I host a neighborhood tea party,” she said. A tea tizzyTerway lives in the neighborhood around Hilltop Avenue and had been passing the vacant city lot on her daily runs. Lauzon gave the example of a dog training business that might want to use city property to host obedience classes.