The Salad Days of Summer in Vermont

The term “Salad Days” has a couple different meanings. Some define it as the days of youth and inexperience (green, like salad); others think of it as a person’s heyday (heyday, aka: day in the sun, like today). I can be a very literal person (when...

The Hidden Beauty of Pollination In Vermont and Online

Vermont summer is all about the birds and the bees. Now that the sun is out, the kids have graduated, fathers have been feted and the state is rich with vibrant color, it is appropriate that we stop to take a look at the little ones that make it all possible. Not...

A Bridge by Any Other Name Would Span Lake Champlain

The Lake Champlain Basin is rich in history. From the Paleoindian hunter-gathers 11,300 years ago to the Revolutionary War to the Champlain Canal connecting the lake to the Hudson River system, Lake Champlain has been an essential transportation route. It is still a...