Marketplace
Marketplace Advertiser links: Eddington House Inn — Pangea Restaurant — Newfane Country Store — Progressive Performance Festival — Building a Better Brattleboro — Beadniks — New England Youth Theatre
Kitchen Gardens
Ellen Ogden’s Inspiring Kitchen Gardens by Katherine P. Cox While it has invaluable advice on everything from preparing the soil and choosing seeds to basic tool and style suggestions, this design/garden/cook book inspires rather than intimidates. It transforms the humble vegetable plot into a place where art, whimsy and creativity take flight, enhancing the essential joy of growing something from seed. That the resulting vegetable...
Wine Observed: Summer Wines
Summer Wines by Marty Ramsburg Summer is but a fleeting moment in Vermont, or so it seems. Those of us who live here year-round relish each day that we can be outside without putting on layers. From mid-June through foliage in late October, Vermont is bliss —cool nights, warm days, walks along the tree-covered river road that is cool despite the ambient temperature in town, the Farmers’ Market, flowering pots, ubiquitous green. It...
Food Festivals
Vermont Food Festivals If there’s one thing—besides the art—that brings people to the historic villages and rural communities of Southern Vermont, it has to be the food. In this region you’ll find a warm and sophisticated, yet rustic, lifestyle based on family traditions, with authentic and local food experiences. There are plenty of food festivals this summer and fall, many of which offer a great way to experience the flavors of a...
Music and Theatre
Summer Stage, Summer Music Bellows Falls Opera House 7 Centennial Square, Rockingham bfoperahouse.com, 802 463-3964 May 28: L’il Orphans Cajun Dance Party, 9p. Brattleboro Music Center 38 Walnut Street, Brattleboro bmcvt.org, 802 257-4523 May 30: Flutist Bart Feller: Master Class, 6p and Concert, 4p at the West Village Meeting House in West Brattleboro, 4p. June 12: Windham Orchestra presents Ode to Joy, at Brattleboro Retreat...
Southern Vermont Festivals
Festival Links: Strolling of the Heifers — Yellow Barn — Blueberry Festival — Vermont Life Win & Harvest Festival — Garlic Festival — Grafton Music Festival