Farmers markets days and hours
Farmers’ Markets Days & Hours Every Tuesday: Rutland Downtown Farmers’ Market, Depot Park, 3-6p, 802 747-4403. Bennington Walloomsac Farmers’ Market, Bennington Station, 10a-1p, 802 442-8934. Every Wednesday: Farmers’ Market, Food Co-op Parking Lot, Brattleboro, 10a-2p, brattleborofarmersmarket.org. Woodstock Farmers’ Market, on the Green, 3-6p, woodstockvt.com. Every Thursday: Poultney Farmers’...
Vermont’s Artisan Cheeses
Vermont’s Artisan Cheeses It takes a lot more than a folksy looking label to be able to call a food product artisan. To be legitimate, the food must make a statement about where it comes from and who grows or produces it.Such a statement is loud and clear in the cheeses produced at Peaked Mountain Farm in Townshend. On a road that winds up a hillside above the village center, Bob and Ann Works and their helpers annually produce about...
Food festivals
Vermont Food & Wine Food Festivals Food festivals are a great way to experience new foods, gather new recipes and enjoy the flavors of new destinations. A culinary excursion to Southern Vermont dishes up wonderful folks and dedicated farmers, local and celebrity chefs, producers, food entrepreneurs, food coops, restaurants, CSAs, farmers’ markets and a host of food festivals. Here are our top picks:Vermont Cheesemakers...
Charlie Hunter and William Hays
Making It In The Arts: Charlie Hunter and William Hays by Joyce Marcel You’ve got to hustle to “make it” in the arts in Vermont.Creative people here learn to apply creativity to their survival as well as to their art. Take painter Charlie Hunter of Bellows Falls, a tall and rangy redhead with a degree in art from Yale and another one in irreverence that he got from life. Hunter can get so much pain and love into his starkly...
Tour Open Studios
Tour Open Studios: Artists at Work, Art For Sale Open Studio WeekendMay 26 & 27, October 6 & 7. Yellow signs will once again dot the Vermont landscape over Memorial Day Weekend, leading locals and tourists alike to the workspaces of 259 artists and craftspeople who will open their studios to the public for Vermont Open Studio Week-end’s landmark 20th year. Visitors will see how art and craft is made at the studios of...
Celebrating Open Studios
Celebrating Open Studios by Arlene Distler In this, the 20th anniversary year of Open Studio Weekend, participants will be invited into the buildings, barns, homes and assorted structures that make up the work spaces for 263 artists and artisans from all regions and corners of Vermont.The history of Open Studio is that of an idea who’s time had come––it was instantly embraced. In 1993, the “Year of American Craft”, the Vermont Craft...
Two artist partners
Two Artist Partners, One Dream Studio by Steve Noble A strange thing happened when Petey Mitchell flipped a switch and warm electric light filled a room in the 250-year-old house she and her husband, Jim Giddings, were renovating into their dream studio. She cried. “We’re the first people to ever have electricity in this house,” said Mitchell. It was a telling moment in a renovation project whose unique trajectory has been...
Our self-guided tour
Our Self-guided Tour by Arlene Distler On a recent Putney Craft Tour I made my way on a chilly autumn day along the winding roads of this art-centric town just north of Brattleboro. A pioneer in the concept of Open Studios, Putney has a density of artists and artisans that few towns can equal.This may be due to its being the location of the Putney School, a private high school dating from 1935 that is known for its strong arts...
Westminster Cares Garden Tour
Garden Inspiration Westminster Cares Garden Tour July 14–15, Saturday 10–3p; Sunday Noon–3pInformation: wecares@sover.net, 802-722-3607The tour will feature the gardens of Mary and Gordon Hayward, nationally know garden designer, writer and lecturer. Proceeds from the tour support the services and programs of Westminster Cares, a volunteer organization whose purpose is to create opportunities. Tickets can be purchased...
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