Sidehill Farms offers a tasting of the company’s local homemade preserves at the Grafton Food & Spirits Festival.
Grafton Food & Spirits Festival
July 7, Grafton, Vt.
http://www.graftonfoodfestival.com
The Fifth Annual Grafton Food & Spirits Festival celebrates Southern Vermont food and farms. We celebrate our local taste of place by featuring local food and beverage vendors with tastings, cooking demonstrations, and farmers’ market tables. This year, celebrity chef and cookbook author Sara Moulton joins the festivities as guest chef. Stay in the heart of the Grafton Food Festival scene and enjoy special perks. This weekend is a foodie’s delight, with food and drink tastings, a farmers’ market, live music, cooking demonstrations, and more!
10th Annual Vermont Cheesemakers Festival
Aug 12, 10a–4p, Coach Barn of Shelburne Farms, Shelburne, Vt.
http://www.vtcheesefest.com, 212 576-2700
Vermont is the premium artisanal cheese state, with the highest number of cheesemakers per capita—more than 50! We invite you to experience our passion for making fine cheeses, taste local and fresh foods and wines, and meet the artisans who make them. Spend a high summer day along the shores of Lake Champlain at the historic Shelburne Farms Coach Barn sampling, buying, learning, and networking. Hosted by the Vermont Butter & Cheese Company and the Vermont Cheese Council, the festival attracted more than 1,100 visitors from across the country last year. Sample more than 100 cheese types from 50 cheesemakers, a variety of locally produced wines and beer, and several other artisan foods, including maple syrup, honey, chocolates, and baked goods.
Deerfield Valley Blueberry Festival and Parade – Top Ten Summer Event
July 27–Aug 5, Various venues in the Mount Snow Valley area
http://www.vermontblueberry.com
Berries, vintage cars, music, and food. If it’s blue, it’s probably happening in the Southern Vermont Deerfield Valley area towns of Wilmington, Whitingham, and Dover in late July and early August. Visitors will find a Big Blue Parade, a Blue Street Fair, children’s activities, jam making, blueberry-themed specials in the local eateries, blue music events, a blue car auto show, blueberry bake sales, blue beer, and pick your own blueberry opportunities. Don’t miss Boyd Farm’s “Fields of Blue” public art display. Inspired by Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Central Park orange canvas display “The Gates,” Vermont farmers Janet and Buck Boyd’s display of blue tarps in their fields will have you chuckling.
