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’ ...
Town Forests Bring Vermonters Together, Even While Social Distancing
In the era of COVID-19, Vermonters are particularly fortunate to live in a rural state where access to the outdoors is abundant. Even people living in Vermont’s largest city and the epicenter of ...
Vermonters have been working hard to slow the spread of COVID-19, and as hard as these times have been for everybody, the spirit of Vermont communities is alive and well. Vermonters are sticking ...
Vermont Communities Stick Together While Staying Apart
Vermont is known for its tight-knit communities and in some ways social distancing has served to further illustrate just how tight-nit our communities are and how much Vermonters rely on those ...
Lumberjills Gain Skills, Confidence in Game of Logging
“Learning to use a chainsaw was the most empowering thing I have ever done,” said Caitlin Gosciminski, a natural resources major at the University of Vermont.
Gosciminski was among ten women ...
Vermont’s Original Extreme Sport: The Lumberjack Competition
When most people think about world-class athletes from Vermont, they think of Olympic skiers and snowboarders like Kelly Clark, Hannah Kearney and Sophie Caldwell. And while it’s true that ...
Loggers, Mountain Bikers and a Tiki Bar: Vermont’s New Working Landscape
Sawmills were East Burke’s first industry, bringing brave and adventurous souls to the northern reaches of Vermont to work, establish farms and, eventually, build the local school, church and ...
“Livability,” “quality of life,” “sense of place”—these are all terms used to describe some of the less tangible but very important aspects of a town, city, or state that make it a good place to ...
A Year in the Life of a Christmas Tree at Russell Farm
Most of us think about a Christmas tree for a few weeks in December, but David Russell, owner of Russell Christmas Tree Farm in Starksboro, Vermont thinks about them just about every day of the ...
