Nest — Spring 2015
Burlington Home Buyers’ Guide; Back-to-the-Land ‘Agrihoods;’ Meet a Hardwick Chair Maker; Rochester Home Tour; DIY Vertical Gardening
Vermont Cedar Chair Company Is Sitting Pretty
Upbeat music fills the Vermont Cedar Chair Company warehouse in Hardwick, where energetic young staffers are cutting, sanding, assembling and packaging its wooden outdoor chairs. Owner Jason Lutz, 30, is on the phone, making sure everything is on track for the three regional trade shows his company reps will attend the following weekend. “Have a…
Nest — Spring 2015
In this spring issue of Nest, we’re thinking about more than just spring cleaning. Now that the snow is melting and we can finally see the ground, it’s Vermont’s busiest season of the year for home buying and selling. If you’re in the market for new digs in Burlington, read “’Hood, Sweet ’Hood,” our handy…
A Guide to Burlington Home Buying by Neighborhood
Thinking of buying a home in Burlington? Join the club. The housing market in Vermont’s largest city is competitive. Demand is high; supply is low. Buyers pay more than they would for the same house outside the city, and will find slim pickings in the most highly desired areas. Between March 2014 and March 2015,…
Vermont ‘Agrihoods’ Offer Edible Landscapes and Tight-knit Neighbors
Not so very long ago, a farm, dairy, vegetable garden or orchard surrounded nearly every Vermont home. People lived and worked close to the land because that’s where the bulk of their food came from. Then came the postwar housing boom, industrial agriculture and the rise of the American suburb. Subdivisions sprouted, and manicured lawns…
My Nest: Touring an Artful Rochester Home
Unique, unorthodox, surprising: Those are just some of the adjectives that come to mind when one describes the residence of Anni Mackay and Doon Hinderyckx. For starters, the two live above an art gallery. Sitting alongside Route 100 in tiny Rochester, Vt., BigTown Gallery is impossible to miss. Its circular motif in the front —…
DIY: How To Make a Vertical Garden
It’s been a long, cold winter, and Vermonters are ready for spring. That much was clear on February 27, the opening day of the Vermont Flower Show. Forming the kind of slow-moving lines more often seen at Disney World, hundreds of people shuffled through an elaborate indoor garden display. They stopped to smell the tulips…
