On Saturday, November 22, Burlington, Vermont hosted its first ever winter farmer’s market, in Memorial Auditorium on Main Street.

Seven Days video correspondent Jim Wilkinson-Ray filmed and edited this video about the event.

Jim follows Food Editor Suzanne Podhaizer and Assistant Online Editor and Food Writer Alice Levitt as they tour the farm stands, meet the farmers, eat chocolate ginger cake and talk with Governor Jim Douglas.

Here’s a list of local producers featured in this video:

Arethusa Collective Farm

Naga Bakehouse

Tamale Girl

Tart to Finish

The next Burlington Winter Farmers’ Market takes place on December 20, 2008.

Click here for a list of Vermont’s winter farmers’ markets.

What do you do with all of these root veggies? Click here for Suzanne Podhaizer’s <a href=”http://www.7dvt.com/2008beet-system” target=”_blank””Beet the System: Learning How to Dig Winter’s Bounty” – with recipes!

This article appears in Dec 3-9, 2008.

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AAN award-winning food writer Alice Levitt is a fan of the exotic, the excellent and automats. She wrote for Seven Days 2007-2015.