Climate change brings changes to VT farming
Vermont’s farmers are growing crops that better suit the state’s warmer and wetter climate and branching into products that…
Celery: Actually quite a bit more than Kalamazoo chew
Upcoming Monday Munches feature deliciously tempting summer offerings: couscous, Italian pasta salad, strawberries, blueberries and watermelon. In contrast to…
Saving seeds from vegetable crops is fun and easy
Saving seeds from your vegetable crops is a fun and easy way to benefit from nature’s generosity. With a…
Adorable kid leads to change from flowers to goats
Life does not always go to plan. For Margaret Aiken, who recently opened a United States Department of Agriculture-certified…
Summer musings on gratitude for miracle of being here
Sweltering heat. Powerful thunderstorms that tear across the lake like a dark wall of clouds. They make fools of…
Sloppy Joes come with many origin stories and names
Monday Munch offers a food with fascinating lore. Theories about the origins and content of the sloppy Joe sandwich…
Consider cooling off with chilled summer soups
The sun is at its hottest right now in the north country, and we know it. It is steamy…
Developments in strawberry breeding made in Northeast
There’s nothing like the taste of a fresh-picked strawberry. Sweet, juicy and flavorful, it’s the first fruit to ripen…
Rhubarb rap, realizations waiting on senior center menu
As a passionate baseball fan growing up in a northern California village, although I didn’t know anyone who’d ever…
Growing watermelon
There are few things as refreshing on a hot summer day as a slice of watermelon (Citrullus Lanatus). At…
Enjoy whale of good meal at senior center — minus whale
Hendrik Hertzberg’s “One Million” offers a statistic to think about: Over a lifetime, the average American eats 100,874 pounds…
Explore abundant joys of eating eggs at senior center
As you look at the Monday Munch menu for May 19, think about how you’d go about preparing deviled…
Thank you to Fenns and a host of hardworking volunteers
Amid ongoing concerning and ever-confusing news regarding cuts to social programs just about everywhere you look, and the mounting…
May 5 historically notable for more than just Monday Munch
May 5 is quite a day in American history: Take no notice of what the fast food afficionado and…
Celebrate May with braised spring vegetables, use greens
We’ve arrived at May. This is the month many say is their favorite as grass greens, daffodils spring up…
Local food program looks for security in state money amid funding worries
Funding may be at risk for a nonprofit program that buys local food and gives it to Vermonters struggling…
Carrots in war, literature, hot dog buns and Monday Munch
Yes, let April showersBring May flowers.But we’d sure like to foregoApril snow. April’s Monday Munches bring us vegetables with…
Celebrating the ‘season of deception’ with clams
Yes, it’s the season of deception, which happens in New England just before, sometimes during or even after mud…
Memories of when only pink margarine was legal in VT
For salad de Madison, there’s no need to travel to the second-most populous city in Wisconsin, and you can…
Senior center’s Monday Munch has avocado but no pi
OK, you missed Pi Day at the Charlotte Senior Center. Since 3, 1 and 4 are the first three…