Berlin Pond
by Nat Frothingham, all photos courtesy of Citizens to Protect Berlin Pond Berlin Pond is seeing increased boating and fishing activity in the wake of the October 2011 Vermont Supreme Court decision...
View ArticleParking Committee Report: Promoting Public Transportation and Increasing...
by Ivan Shadis At the August 28 meeting, the Montpelier City Council began by taking a couple of items off the consent agenda, among them one concerning a fee schedule for city licenses, pending...
View ArticleHealth Care Share Program Is Changing Lives
by Nat Frothingham Once again during summer harvest time, the Central Vermont Medical Center (CVMC) in partnership with the Vermont Youth Conservation Corps (VYCC) is supplying local, farm-grown...
View ArticleMultiple Harvests, Myriads of Products
by Amy Brooks Thornton “There’s a seasonality to everything,” says David Thayer of Hooker Mountain Farm. Our stereotype of the harvest is fall and vegetables. But anyone who bottles, cans, ferments,...
View ArticleBeyond Wet Update: Rebounding from Desperate Times?
by Amy Brooks Thornton Days of heat and sunshine have replaced the soggy weeks of late May and June, but Joey Klein of Littlewood Farm says he’d almost rather have the weather be “stuck on rain.” “Dry...
View ArticleBattling the Goliath of Federal Regulations Small Vermont Farms and the Food...
by Bob Nuner Last month, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) bureaucrats, at the behest of New Hampshire and Vermont lawmakers and state agriculture departments, came to a meeting in Hanover, New...
View ArticleNature Watch
The juicy quality of spring is a distant memory. Whole universes of leaves are now shutting down fluid intake as they continue to transpire and evaporate, and tons of water vapor is given up to the...
View ArticleHeard on the Street
District Heat Wrinkles Checking with City Manager Bill Fraser, The Bridge learned that the city’s piping project moves apace, and the pipes will be in place as planned, but that, in the room that’s the...
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