Family’s easygoing attitude and dedication keep customers coming back year after year…
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Overcome COVID-19 cabin fever at your local apple orchard By Bob Audette Across Southern Vermont orchard managers are preparing for an unprecedented pick-your-own apple season. “Consumers are looking for local food and they also are looking for fun experiences,” said Vermont Agriculture…
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Tips for picking the perfect tree from the National Christmas Tree Association Source: realchristmastrees.org Measure your space Be sure you know what size (height and width) you need before heading to the retail lot. Measure the ceiling height in the room where…
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By Anne ArcherSunderland, Vt. With a smile that defines joy, Linda McKeever recalls the wintry day when her daughter, Megan, then 2 years old, was standing in the hallway of their house with an open stick of butter in her hand. “Megan,…
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Family’s easygoing attitude and dedication keep customers coming back year after year…
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The best fresh cider doughnuts in the Berkshires and Southern Vermont…
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A buyer’s guide for purchasing legal marijuana in the Berkshires…
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They have been part of the Green Mountain landscape for almost two centuries, ready to welcome a traveler in need of provisions or a local for anything from winter wear to a lug wrench. They are known as purveyors of everything from…
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You can’t go wrong with chocolate.
That’s what Nick Monte, chocolatier and co-owner of the Village Peddler in East Arlington, Vt., and the Village Chocolate Shoppe in Bennington, Vt., believes.…
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Yes, sweet things from Northampton, Mass. ovens help people power up for the rigors of their days, just as they do at early-bird bakeries across UpCountry communities.
To be sure, the scratch baking scene isn’t Northampton’s most-played card. But for me, when it…
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“When you don’t work for something like this and you get it, you feel kind of embarrassed,” Linwood B. Lesure said, reviewing the events that made him the National Outstanding Tree Farmer of 1977. That wasn’t saying he had not earned the…
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