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Food + Drink
Did Your Garden Flood? Here's What to Know
Just as Vermont’s home gardeners were gearing up to harvest their much-anticipated July bounty — tomatoes, peppers and zucchini — a historic deluge hit… -
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Arts + Culture
Video: Gail and George Africa of Vermont Flower Farm Plan to Retire
Episode 672
Vermont Flower Farm owners Gail and George Africa have been working with plants and flowers for almost four decades. They grow lush fields of daylilies and display gardens next to the Winooski River in Marshfield. Eva Sollberger stopped by recently for a tour and talked with the couple about their retirement plans. -
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Arts + Culture
In 'Living Color,' Bonnie Acker’s Paintings Offer Solace
Standing in a gallery surrounded by paintings by Bonnie Acker is highly recommended. You may find you want nothing more than to lay on… -
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Food + Drink
Home on the Range: Zucchini-Herb Butter
Late-summer zucchini is the Rodney Dangerfield of vegetables. It gets no respect. As in, "Make sure you lock your car doors and barricade your front… -
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Food + Drink
Nurseries and Farms Adapt to Support Pandemic Gardening Boom
Posters urging Americans to "Dig on for Victory" and "Be a Soldier of the Soil" were ubiquitous during World War II. The patriotic propaganda… -
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Arts + Culture
Page 32: Short Takes on Five Vermont Books
Seven Days writers can't possibly read, much less review, the number of books that arrive in a steady stream by post, email and, in one… -
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Arts + Culture
Art Review: Bahar Behbahani, Hood Downtown
A current ad campaign for the Friends of the Public Garden in Boston declares, "In literature, paradise is usually a garden. Real life, too."… -
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Arts + Culture
Celebrating Shakespeare With Historic Gardens
A rose by any other name would smell as sweet, but the phrase probably wouldn't have sounded nearly as good if attempted by another… -
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Arts + Culture
Video: Co-op Gardening with Bonnie
7/18/14: For the past 21 years, artist Bonnie Acker has tended the lush gardens at Burlington's City Market, Onion River Co-op - first at… -
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Arts + Culture
Work: Tree Doctor Bill deVos
When Bill deVos gets a call about a dying or damaged tree, he doesn’t gear up for an execution; he packs his bag for… -
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Arts + Culture
Garden Guru
Work: Matthew de Wolf, perennial sales associate at Gardener's Supply
Matthew de Wolf isn’t your typical sales associate; he’s a perennials expert with a fan base. During the 15 or so years he’s worked… -
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News
Gardening 2.0
A new app makes growing food easy-peasy
Humans have been growing food for more than 10,000 years, so do we really need an app to show us how to do it? Well,… -
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Home + Design
Down to Earth
Charlie Nardozzi spreads the gardening gospel
You’ve probably heard him on the radio or seen him on TV. Perhaps you’ve watched his how-to videos online, attended one of his talks,… -
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Food + Drink
Lawn Gone
Backyard agriculture is catching on in Vermont’s urban landscapes
While most people spend heaps of money and time to get their lawn looking like a plush green carpet, Michaela Maestas wants nothing to do… -
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Home + Design
The Home and Garden Issue
Container Yourself: A master gardener gives cooped-up cultivators a clue
Industry analysts are predicting the slumping economy will drive gardeners to grow more of their own food this summer. Even novices, and space-challenged urbanites, can… -
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Food + Drink
The (Farming) Wiz
A Plainfield grower makes produce profitable
After six months of snow and sticks, the sight of a green field studded with dandelions is priceless. But you can’t actually make money growing… -
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Food + Drink
Going Underground
Learning from Vermont’s renaissance of root cellaring
Now probably isn’t the easiest time to get excited about storing produce for the winter. After all, the trees are finally in bloom, peas are… -
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Home + Design
Growing Pains
Exercise plants the seeds for garden-ready fitness
For Mary Mary, getting her garden to grow can be quite contrary — to the body. As many as 400,000 people nationwide land in… -
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Food + Drink
Radical Plots
In Vermont, gardening isn't just a hobby anymore
When Bud Shriner asked his friend Janie Cohen if she wanted to curate his sizable vegetable garden near the University of Vermont this year,… -
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Home + Design
Greenbelt Green Thumbs
A year after an effort to restrict them, curbside gardens are still abloom in Burlington
There aren't many summer vegetable stands in Burlington, but the city's neighborhoods boast a variety of roadside produce. Corn, cucumbers and tomatoes have sprouted… -
Arts + Culture
Mother of All Lawn Ornaments
Contemplating visions of Mary -- in plaster, stone and plastic
>> View the slideshow! Mary, the mother of Jesus Christ, is said to have miraculously appeared to the faithful on many occasions since her death… -
Home + Design
The Tiller Man
Charlie Krumholz turns over Burlington's soil
Charlie Krumholz has a new toy: a 2-ton trailer with a hydraulic lift. On a recent Saturday it's filled with 3 yards of rich, black… -
News
The Call of the Wild Bonsai
Hunting tiny, trainable trees in Vermont
This year at the Champlain Valley Fair, the Green Mountain Bonsai Society tried something different with their display. Instead of putting their tiny trees next… -
News
Plant With Your Left Hand, Yank It Up With Your Right
Local Matters
BURLINGTON -- Is Burlington sending out mixed marigold messages? Last month, the city's Center for Community and Neighborhoods presented a beautification award to Holly Taylor,…
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