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One Big Block Party
Move over Crescent City. It’s Burlington’s turn to let les bons temps rouler. The Magic Hat Mardi Gras Celebration in downtown Burlington, Vermont, opens with music at Higher Ground on Friday night. On Saturday, live bands on Church Street will fill the air with Cajun/Creole sounds as pubs and cafes will serve up tasty New Orleans fare.
The King & Queen of Mardi Gras Costume Contest begins at noon outside City Hall. Winners are each awarded $500 and will help lead the Grand Parade with Magic Hat’s Alan Newman and Mayor Bob Kiss. The event, now in its fifteenth year, will benefit the Women’s Rape Crisis Center.• If you go, keep in mind: Smart revelers park their cars at Magic Hat HQ on Bartlett Bay Road in South Burlington or Burlington High School and take the free Mardi Gras shuttle into town.
• Buy your beads to throw at the Magic Hat Mardi Gras Headquarters located in the old Maplehurst Florist shop on Church Street in Burlington. Sales benefit the WRCC.
• It’s going to be chilly! Fingerless gloves are best for catching the beads, authentic Louisiana moon pies and Lake Champlain chocolates as they fly from the floats!
• Families with children under 7 years old are welcome to catch the parade from the Little Jambalaya Viewing Zone, on the corner of Main Street and South Winooski.
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(All events take place in Vermont unless otherwise noted.)
Thursday, February 25
Ron Krupp, local author of Lifting the Yoke: Local Solutions to America’s Farm and Food Crisis offers up practical actions for Vermonters. 7 to 9 pm at Kellogg-Hubbard Library in Montpelier. Free. -
The New Last W-O-R-D for Gardeners
Some Vermonters will be TIVO-ing next Tuesday’s Olympic curling and hockey coverag
e so they can head to Montpelier to hear the latest from Ed Smith, Vermont’s gardening champion. For more than a decade, Smith’s Vegetable Gardener’s Bible has inspired countless gardeners to follow his W-O-R-D to produce bountiful harvests of organic vegetables using the Wide rows, Organic methods, Raised beds, Deep soil method.Gardener and author Ed Smith will be at Bear Pond Books to sign the just-released revised and updated second edition of his VG Bible, which includes coverage of 15 additional vegetables, a section on extending the growing season into the winter months and much more. Tuesday, February 23 at 7 pm.
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(All events take place in Vermont unless otherwise noted.)
Friday, February 19
Social Media Seminar: Joe Mescher of Social Media Commando delves into Internet marketing tools such as Facebook and Twitter. 8 to 9:30 am at the Vergennes Opera House on the Green in Vergennes. -
A Big Weekend Ahead
Talk about an action-packed weekend! Between the NOFA Conference, the Olympics, several winter farmers’ markets, Valentine’s Day and Chinese New Year, you’ll have to work hard to squeeze in 15 minutes of bird
watching for the annual Great Backyard Bird Count.Walk-ins are welcome at the 28th Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont’s Winter Conference February 13 to 15. Register at UVM’s Billings Center (by the Ira Allen Chapel) beginning at 7 am on Saturday. Don’t forget the NOFAvore Party (6 to 9 pm) and Young Farmer Mixer Saturday night (8 to 10 pm) at the Firehouse Gallery at 135 Church Street. Limited tickets will be available at the door.
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(All events take place in Vermont unless otherwise noted.)
Friday, February 12
Celebrate the Year of the Tiger at the Children’s Museum in West Hartford, CT. Enjoy the planetarium program “Dragons in the Stars” and listen to folktales from Asia, told by Andre Keitt, the Greatheart Griot. Themed crafts, Chinese refreshments and telescope viewing in the courtyard. Pre-registration requested. 6 to 9 pm. Cost: $8 per person. Information and registration: 860.231.2830, ext. 44.Saturday, February 13
Winter Farmers’ Markets
Brattleboro 10 am to 3 pm
The Robert H. Gibson River Garden, 153 Main StreetExeter, NH: Seacoast Eat Local Farmers’ Market, 10 am to 2 pm
Exeter High School, 1 Blue Hawk Drive (315 Epping Road for GPS)Lyndonville 10 am to 2 pm
Tom Breslin Center on Main StreetMiddlebury 9:30 am to 1 pm
American Flatbread at the Marble WorksRutland 10 am to 2 pm
Old Strand Theater (77 Wales St.) behind the Rutland Natural Food MarketShelburne 10 am to 2 pm
Route 7 and Shelburne Town Gym, next to fireWaterbury 10 am to 2 pm
Thatcher Brook Primary School, 47 Stowe Street
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Mark Your Calendar! Register Now!
From February 13 to 15, join fellow farmers, homesteaders, activists, consumers and even kids at next week’s Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont’s 28th Annual Winter Conference. With the theme “Celebrating the Heart of the
Organic,” the event will be held in a newly expanded conference site at the University of Vermont in Burlington. Keynote speakers include LaDonna Redmond, founder of the Institute for Community Resource Development, and organic farmer Jack Lazor of Vermont’s Butterworks Farm, with a special appearance by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack. Check out the 70+ workshops, special children’s conference, farmers’ market, ice cream social, Young Farmer Mixer and much more.More Regional Events
(All events take place in Vermont unless otherwise noted.)
Saturday, February 6
Farmers’ Markets
Champlain Island Winter Farmers’ Market
South Hero Congregational Church, 10 am to 2 pmRutland Winter Farmers’ Market
The Old Strand Theater behind the Rutland Natural Food Market, 10 am to 2 pmMontpelier Winter Farmers’ Market
VT College of Fine Arts Gym, corner of E. State Street and College Street, 10 am to 2 pm
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Localvore Dinner Series Comes to Penny Cluse Cafe
Fundraisers at the Vermont Commons School have found a delicious way to help promote sustainable communities through their popular Localvore Dinner Series. Billed as a friend-raising event, each winter/spring dinner includes a four-course meal at a well-known Vermont restaurant with a guest speaker who’s a leader in sustainability.
This coming Wednesday’s dinner will be at Penny Cluse Café in Burlington. Chef/owner Charles Reeves intends to put a typically Penny Cluseian flavor-powerd spin on seasonal, local ingredients. Look for parsley root fries with house-made ketchup, braised Vermont lamb with plenty of garlic, cinnamon-stout ice cream and much more. Saleem H. Ali, associate professor of environmental studies at UVM’s Rubenstein School and author of the new book Treasures of the Earth: Need, Greed and a Sustainable Future (Yale University Press, 2009) will speak.The final two stops on the VCS Localvore express will be at The Kitchen Table Bistro in Richmond on March 11 and American Flatbread at Lareau Farm in Waitsfield on April 6.
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(All events take place in Vermont unless otherwise noted.)
Thursday, January 28
Three Penny Taproom in Montpelier welcomes the owner and brewers from Smuttynose, New Hampshire’s leading craft brewery, who will be tapping a fresh cask of their barrel-aged Imperial Stout. 100% of sales from the cask will be donated to HELP (Haitian Education & Leadership Program).Friday, January 29
‘The End of the Line’, Rupert Murray’s 2009 documentary, presents hard-to-ignore footage and scientific evidence of the state of our oceans, arguing that overfishing will cause a “world without fish” by 2048. 7:30 pm at Spaulding Auditorium, Hopkins Center, Dartmouth College in Hanover, NH. $5 to $8.
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Farming for the Future Conference
It’s not too late to register for the PASA (Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture) 19th Annual “Farming for the Future” Conference to be held February 4 to 6 at the Penn Stater Conference Center Hotel in State College, Pennsylvania. One of the most respected and possibly the largest
gathering of sustainable food enthusiasts in the country, this year’s conference examines hot topics in the great sustainable challenge with workshops on Innovations in Organic No-Till, Conservation Payments for Organic Farming, Energy Realities in a Sustaining Food System, The Benefits of Networking, The Lost Art of Unpowered Cold Farming and much, much more.Keynote speakers include Michael Reynolds, a world leader in sustainable housing, and Lisa M. Hamilton, the author of Deeply Rooted: Unconventional Farmers in the Age of Agribusiness (Counterpoint, 2009).
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(All events take place in Vermont unless otherwise noted.)
Thursday, January 21
Intro to Permaculture: Learn how to boost health and productivity in your own backyard at this workshop given by Burlington Permaculture’s Mark Krawszyk. 6:30 to 8:30 pm, Burlington Public Works Department. $10 donation. Call 802.999.2768 for more info.
Indoor Gardening Workshop: Learn the steps to harvesting pea shoots in your home kitchen in just seven days. 6 to 7 pm, Hunger Mountain Co-op, Montpelier. Call 802.223.8004 x202 to reserve a place.
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Lift the Yoke Tonight at City Market!
Local author and Vermont ag expert Ron Krupp leads a visual tour through his new book, Lifting the Yoke: Local Solutions to America’s Farm and Food Crisis, tonight at City Market in Burlington. While many see the national food system as a failure, Krupp
finds solutions in our own backyards.An activist in farm and food issues for nearly four decades, Krupp started the Brattleboro Farmers’ Market in the early ’70s, coordinated the Tommy Thompson Community Garden in the Intervale, worked with the Heartbeet farm in Hardwick and published “The Green Mountain Farmer,” a monthly newsletter in the early ’80s. He’s also the author of The Woodchuck’s Guide to Gardening, which received the Christian Science Monitor’s Garden Book of the Year award for New England in 2002. VPR listeners know him as the station’s farm and garden commentator. The free discussion begins at 7 pm: sign up at the customer service desk.
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(All events take place in Vermont unless otherwise noted)
Stop by the Pierson Library in Shelburne to see “Rural Vermont’s Activist Farmers,” a traveling exhibit of photographs and stories on the lives of 15 Vermont farmers that share a vision of economic justice. The exhibit will be on display through the end of January. Next stop will be the Griswold Library at Green Mountain College in Poultney for the month of February.
FarmScapes, a juried art show, opens tonight at the Lake Placid Center for the Arts in Lake Placid, New York, featuring works inspired by the local working landscape and local produce. Twenty-four North Country artists contributed to the show, which runs through February 14.
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A Better Loaf
In Vermont, the per capita ratio of artisan bread bakers is perhaps greater than anywhere else in the country–which means the bar is set dauntingly high for the typical homemade loaf. Fortunately there’s hope for the home bread baker, and it’s just off Route 5 in Norwich.
The Baking Education Center at King Arthur Flour is offering the four-day class “Bread: Principles & Practice” this coming week. Lectures, given by several of the BEC’s world-class instructors, will cover every aspect of bread baking for the home baker, including the function of ingredients, pre-ferments and how to facilitate maximum rise. There will be hands-on work in yeast breads, from basic bread through whole grains, sweetened breads, sourdough and starter-based breads.For home bakers with a sweet tooth and just a few hours to spare, there’s a class on sticky cinnamon buns on Saturday taught by Bonny Hooper.
Enrollment in either class comes with a 10% discount at The Baker’s Store for two weeks beginning the day of your class. Classes fill up quickly—to enroll or check out more classes throughout the year, call 800.652.3334.
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(All events take place in Vermont unless otherwise noted)
Friday, January 8
Pownal marks its 250th anniversary beginning at 6 pm tomorrow with a celebratory reading of the town charter plus bagpipes and more traditional music, as well as a cardboard cake complete with 250 cardboard candles created by Pownal grade-schoolers. (A real cake will be served too.) All are welcome. The celebration takes place at the elementary school at 94 Schoolhouse Road.
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Emeril Takes It Up the Notch
While we don’t usually qualify the airing of a TV show as an “event,” watching Emeril Lagasse go gaga over Vermont-made tofu this coming Monday, January 4, is a sight not to be missed. Last summer, the Cajun BAM!-man and the crew of “Emeril Green,” the
chef’s new TV show, descended on Hardwick, Vermont, to discover how a community of young agricultural entrepreneurs has transformed a small New England town into a hotbed of sustainably delicious eating.During the hour-long program, Lagasse follows the local food chain beginning with Tom Stearns of High Mowing Organic Seeds who sells seeds to Pete Johnson of Pete’s Greens whose produce graces the plates at Claire’s—a community supported restaurant on Hardwick’s Main Street. Along the way the chef chats with Mateo and Andy Kehler, the two brothers behind the award-winning cheeses of Jasper Hill Farm, and assists Andrew Meyer of Vermont Soy in making a fresh batch of tofu.
“It’s unbelievable,” says Lagasse. “You have seeds, then soil, then the farm and you have the cheese.”
“Emeril’s Culinary Adventures: Vermont” airs at 8 pm on Planet Green, the first channel dedicated to the subject of ecologically friendly living. Comcast subscribers in Vermont will find Planet Green on channel 103.
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Giddy-Up! Giddy-Up!
It’s a snowy Christmas in Vermont with more of the white stuff on the way. Snow coverage is still a bit thin at the lower elevations but higher up there’s plenty for skiing, riding, sledding and
snowshoeing. A sleigh ride is the perfect way to get the whole family outside to enjoy the snow. Pull on your boots, grab Grandma and Baby Teddy and head out to:Shelburne Farms, 1611 Harbor Road, Shelburne
Sleigh rides daily (except Christmas Day) through January 3. Meet at the Welcome Center. Call 802.985.8442 for information; ask about stargazing sleigh rides too.Mountain Valley Farm, 1719 Common Road, Waitsfield
Horse-drawn sleigh rides are booked through Saturday, but there are openings from Sunday on. Call early to reserve a spot: 802.496.9255.Adams Family Farm, 15 Higley Hill Road, Wilmington
For a very special Christmas Eve, bundle up for a sleigh ride followed by hot chocolate and Christmas carols. Or, one week later, hear sleigh bells ringing in the New Year. For reservations and a schedule of daytime rides, call 802.464.3762. The farm is closed Christmas Day and Monday, December 28.Billings Farm & Museum, Route 12 & River Road, Woodstock
Sleigh rides are just one of the many seasonal activities scheduled for the days between Christmas and New Year’s weekend. Check the daily activities calendar or call 802.457.2355.Read the rest of this entry »
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