- *The Last Farm* (1973)
- *In the Banks of the Green River* (1978)
- *My Countryplace: Memoirs of a Life in a Vanishing New England* (1981)
- *The Other Eden: Hunters, Farmers and the Shaping of the Land in the Eastern Townships* (1990)
- *The Vintage Years of Quebec: Exploring the Province on Foot, Byway, and Highway* (1993)
- *The Vermont Farm: A Social and Cultural History* (1994; Revised 2006)
- *The Old Vermont Farm* (1998; Revised 2007)
- *Life in the Green Mountains* (2002; Revised 2008)
- *New England Encounters* (2004)
- *The Sugar Maple: History, Science and Lore of the Sweetest Tree* (2010)
Essays and articles:
- "The Changing Woods of Vermont" in *The Vermont History Reader* (1990)
- "The Rural New England Tradition" in *The New England Quarterly* (2003)
- "The Sugar Maple: History, Science and Lore of the Sweetest Tree" in *Vermont History* (2010)
- "The Old Vermont Farm" in *The Vermont Country Store Cookbook* (2011)
- "The Vermont Farm" in *The Vermont Almanac and State Manual* (2012)
- "My Countryplace" in *The Best of Vermont Life: 70 Years of Great Writing from Vermont's Original Magazine* (2016)
Children's books:
- *The Boy Who Made a Forest* (1981)
- *The Story of the Green Mountain Boys* (1985)
- *The Sugarmaker's Farm* (1991)
- *The Maple in the Meadow* (2004)