1. Down on the Farm Where does your food come from? Vermont Breakfast on the Farm gives locavores an inside look at Miller Farm in Vernon, a working dairy operation that provides milk to Stonyfield Organic. Participants prepare a morning meal at home, and then hop online for a tour of the 105-year-old farm, including…
A particular photo of Silvia Jope’s backyard “always stirs my heartstrings,” she said. Purple coneflowers seem to dance in front of a delicately woven willow gate in a young hornbeam hedge. The landscape designer grew the coneflowers from seed, made the gate from twigs in her yard and patterned the hedge after those she saw…
In his new book, The Complete Guide to No-Dig Gardening, Charlie Nardozzi recalls his uncle tilling the home garden every spring. During horticulture school, he continues, “tilling and digging were touted as necessary to grow plants well.” In recent years, the North Ferrisburgh-based garden educator, writer and host of “All Things Gardening” on Vermont Public…
A decade ago, Eric Hudson and his maintenance staff kept the grounds of the King George School in Sutton immaculate: lawns and gardens manicured, walkways shoveled and swept, fences regularly painted white. After all, the affluent and mostly out-of-state parents whose high-school-age kids attended the therapeutic boarding school in the Northeast Kingdom paid hefty tuitions…
Grace Elletson remembers walking into her grandmother’s house and noticing a new deep-blue chest in the hallway. She loved it immediately. “Where did that come from?” she asked. Her grandmother said that the chest had always been in the hallway but that Elletson’s mother had recently painted over the dark-brown wood. “I noticed it when…
Samantha Ford sees dead people — and brings them to life. An archaeologist of sorts, she digs into documents, not dirt. Instead of a spade and sieve, her tools are deeds and vital records. Ford’s enterprise, Williston-based Turn Stone Research, can put the limbs on your family tree, find secrets buried beneath the hearth, or…
Only die-hard snow enthusiasts could lament the coming of spring; the rest of us are downright giddy. This year, of course, we’re beginning to emerge from a long “winter” of another sort: a pandemic. The arrival of vaccines and greens inspired not one but two hands-in-the-dirt stories in this issue: a conversation with gardening guru…
Pomerleau family matriarch remembered for her love of family, animals and the arts
