Longtime Customer Becomes New Café Owner
For years, Nadia Dole had stopped at Vergennes Laundry on her way to visit family in Montreal. She loved the simplicity of the French-style café and bakery on Main Street in Vergennes, and even ...
Food & Beverage
Supports for Food System Businesses
Businesses tied to Vermont’s food system have multiple resources available to them during this challenging time. Farmers with extra produce to sell, dairy farms in need of backup milkers, and ...
Vermont Distilleries Make Hand Sanitizer to Fight COVID-19
Vermont’s distilleries are well known for their award-winning spirits, but as the state fights the COVID-19 pandemic, they’re switching gears and producing hand sanitizer instead. Smugglers’ ...
Covid-19 Opens Up Opportunities for Independent Bottler
“Despite Covid-19, we were struck by the support we’ve received,” said Adam Polonski, co-owner of Lost Lantern Spirits, a Vermont-based independent bottler of American whiskey. “From our bank ...
Who Grows Our Food: A Conversation with Mr. Henry
Fall is just around the corner in Vermont. The COVID-19 pandemic hasn’t stopped folks from visiting their favorite farm stands and orchards to go apple picking and finding the perfect pumpkin to ...
Loggers and Lagers: How Healthy Forests Help Brew a Better Pint
The story of von Trapp Brewing begins fifty years ago in the forested hills behind the resort, where a natural spring bubbles clear water up to the surface of the earth. The spring is fed by ...
Returning to Vermont Roots
“You’re going to need to figure something out,” Kiera Bratton-Lewis told her husband, Cory Bratton, over a phone call in early March. “It’s going to get bad.” She was referring to what was about ...
Combating Food Insecurity, One Meal at a Time
Vermont’s commitment to local food runs deep. It’s no surprise then that one of the most successful and innovative programs to combat the one-two punch of closed businesses and increased food ...
Vermonters Work Together to Fight Food Insecurity
In Vermont, neighbors help neighbors. As the state responds to the COVID-19 pandemic by asking Vermonters to stay home as much as possible, food insecurity is a community concern, and people are ...
Vermont Businesses Serve Those Who Serve Others
With the closure of bars, restaurants, retail stores, and other businesses not considered essential to the COVID-19 response, many workers are struggling to make ends meet. New relief efforts by ...
Groennfell Meadery works to advance careers through VTP
Groennfell Meadery, a Vermont craft beverage company, recently received a grant totaling $3,237.50 from the Vermont Training Program (VTP).
Groennfell, which means “Green Mountain” in old ...
Champlain Orchards upgrades inventory management system
Champlain Orchards, a family-owned and ecologically managed farm, recently received more than $15,000 from the Vermont Training Program (VTP).
Champlain Orchards recently upgraded its ...