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Climate change brings changes to VT farming
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Climate change brings changes to VT farming

Maeve Fairfax, Community News Service July 10, 2025July 9, 2025

Vermont’s farmers are growing crops that better suit the state’s warmer and wetter climate and branching into products that…

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Celery: Actually quite a bit more than Kalamazoo chew
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Celery: Actually quite a bit more than Kalamazoo chew

Susan Ohanian, Write Ingredients July 10, 2025July 9, 2025

Upcoming Monday Munches feature deliciously tempting summer offerings: couscous, Italian pasta salad, strawberries, blueberries and watermelon. In contrast to…

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Saving seeds from vegetable crops is fun and easy
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Saving seeds from vegetable crops is fun and easy

Amy Simone, University of Vermont Extension  July 10, 2025July 9, 2025

Saving seeds from your vegetable crops is a fun and easy way to benefit from nature’s generosity. With a…

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Adorable kid leads to change from flowers to goats
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Adorable kid leads to change from flowers to goats

Elizabeth Bassett, In the Outdoors July 10, 2025July 9, 2025

Life does not always go to plan. For Margaret Aiken, who recently opened a United States Department of Agriculture-certified…

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Summer musings on gratitude for miracle of being here
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Summer musings on gratitude for miracle of being here

Bradley Carleton, Sacred Hunter July 10, 2025July 9, 2025

Sweltering heat. Powerful thunderstorms that tear across the lake like a dark wall of clouds. They make fools of…

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Sloppy Joes come with many origin stories and names
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Sloppy Joes come with many origin stories and names

Susan Ohanian, Write Ingredients June 26, 2025June 25, 2025

Monday Munch offers a food with fascinating lore. Theories about the origins and content of the sloppy Joe sandwich…

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Consider cooling off with chilled summer soups
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Consider cooling off with chilled summer soups

Dorothy Grover-Read, Our Local Feast June 26, 2025June 25, 2025

The sun is at its hottest right now in the north country, and we know it. It is steamy…

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Developments in strawberry breeding made in Northeast
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Developments in strawberry breeding made in Northeast

Vern Grubinger, University of Vermont Extension June 26, 2025June 25, 2025

There’s nothing like the taste of a fresh-picked strawberry. Sweet, juicy and flavorful, it’s the first fruit to ripen…

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Rhubarb rap, realizations waiting on senior center menu
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Rhubarb rap, realizations waiting on senior center menu

Susan Ohanian, Write Ingredients June 12, 2025June 11, 2025

As a passionate baseball fan growing up in a northern California village, although I didn’t know anyone who’d ever…

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Growing watermelon
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Growing watermelon

Deborah J. Benoit, University of Vermont Extension June 5, 2025June 4, 2025

There are few things as refreshing on a hot summer day as a slice of watermelon (Citrullus Lanatus). At…

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Enjoy whale of good meal at senior center — minus whale
Food & Farm Senior Center

Enjoy whale of good meal at senior center — minus whale

Susan Ohanian, Write Ingredients May 29, 2025May 28, 2025

Hendrik Hertzberg’s “One Million” offers a statistic to think about: Over a lifetime, the average American eats 100,874 pounds…

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Explore abundant joys of eating eggs at senior center
Food & Farm Senior Center

Explore abundant joys of eating eggs at senior center

Susan Ohanian, Write Ingredients May 15, 2025May 14, 2025

As you look at the Monday Munch menu for May 19, think about how you’d go about preparing deviled…

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Thank you to Fenns and a host of hardworking volunteers
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Thank you to Fenns and a host of hardworking volunteers

Katherine Arthaud, Contributor May 15, 2025May 14, 2025

Amid ongoing concerning and ever-confusing news regarding cuts to social programs just about everywhere you look, and the mounting…

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May 5 historically notable for more than just Monday Munch
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May 5 historically notable for more than just Monday Munch

Susan Ohanian, Write Ingredients May 1, 2025April 30, 2025

May 5 is quite a day in American history: Take no notice of what the fast food afficionado and…

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Celebrate May with braised spring vegetables, use greens
Food & Farm

Celebrate May with braised spring vegetables, use greens

Dorothy Grover-Read, Our Local Feast May 1, 2025April 30, 2025

We’ve arrived at May. This is the month many say is their favorite as grass greens, daffodils spring up…

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Local food program looks for security in state money amid funding worries
Food & Farm

Local food program looks for security in state money amid funding worries

Sam Hartnett, Community News Service April 24, 2025April 23, 2025

Funding may be at risk for a nonprofit program that buys local food and gives it to Vermonters struggling…

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Carrots in war, literature, hot dog buns and Monday Munch
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Carrots in war, literature, hot dog buns and Monday Munch

Susan Ohanian, Write Ingredients April 17, 2025April 16, 2025

Yes, let April showersBring May flowers.But we’d sure like to foregoApril snow. April’s Monday Munches bring us vegetables with…

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Celebrating the ‘season of deception’ with clams
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Celebrating the ‘season of deception’ with clams

Dorothy Grover-Read, Our Local Feast April 3, 2025April 3, 2025

Yes, it’s the season of deception, which happens in New England just before, sometimes during or even after mud…

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Memories of when only pink margarine was legal in VT
Food & Farm Senior Center

Memories of when only pink margarine was legal in VT

Susan Ohanian, Write Ingredients April 3, 2025April 2, 2025

For salad de Madison, there’s no need to travel to the second-most populous city in Wisconsin, and you can…

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Senior center’s Monday Munch has avocado but no pi
Food & Farm Senior Center

Senior center’s Monday Munch has avocado but no pi

Susan Ohanian, Write Ingredients March 20, 2025March 19, 2025

OK, you missed Pi Day at the Charlotte Senior Center. Since 3, 1 and 4 are the first three…

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