Verandah Porche

[2] That same year, with some friends, she founded a commune in southern Vermont called Total Loss Farm where she still lives.

Their adventures were chronicled in two books by Ray Mungo: Famous Long Ago,[3] and Total Loss Farm.

[4] Porche also contributed significant portions of prose and poetry to Home Comfort: Life on Total Loss Farm, a 1973 collection of stories and essays by residents of the commune, edited by Richard Wizansky.

She has been engaged in residencies at the Gifford Medical Center in Randolph, Vermont, and Real Artways in Hartford, CT. which resulted in a published collection of her poems titled "Listening Out Loud.

[7] The Vermont Arts Council in 1998 awarded Porche a Citation of Merit for her contribution to the state's cultural life.