A Drinker's Guide to Vermont's Sugaring Season
Early spring in Vermont—sugaring season—brings the opportunity to taste the state’s best maple-infused drinks and other seasonal concoctions.
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Early spring in Vermont—sugaring season—brings the opportunity to taste the state’s best maple-infused drinks and other seasonal concoctions.
If 2020 was a roller coaster for Vermont's food scene, 2021 brought the resulting whiplash. As the COVID-19 vaccine rollout continued in the spring, the...
From left: Hilma, twig, High Mountain Tropics and Local Hopper meads Golden Rule Mead's tasting room on Elm Street in Middlebury couldn't be in a much better place. Addison County has long been the hive of beekeeping activity in Vermont. In their 2020 book The Land of Milk & Honey: A History of Beekeeping in Vermont, Bill Mares and Ross Conrad note that the state's very first beekeeping association was established in Middlebury in 1875. They write that Addison County "exemplified the matrix between bees, forage, fruits, and dairy cattle," ...