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An iconic former dairy operation in Charlotte will become a center for Vermont's new agricultural economy, says entrepreneur Will Raap.

With out-of-state travel and indoor recreation prohibited for much of the pandemic, Vermonters were fortunate to have, well, Vermont as a backyard playground. Many embraced the opportunity to explore closer to home and fall in love with the Green Mountain State all over again. From pampered getaways to spectacular outdoor destinations to go-to walking trails, here are the choice spots that helped locals manage a year-plus at home.

Luke Awtry Madelyn Cataford & John Tashiro City Market, Onion River Co-op, is a Vermont institution. From modest beginnings on Archibald Street in the Old North End, the member-owned cooperative has been providing local, organic and conventional food to the Burlington community for more than 40 years.  Now it’s a huge force in the local food ecosystem. City Market works with more than 1,000 Vermont vendors from around the state. In 2020, its sales toppe...

Thu, 04/22/2021 - 4:09am -- tim Vermont Business Magazine The Intervale Center and the Vermont Foodbank are partnering to construct a cold storage building onsite at the Intervale Center to store gleaned and rescued produce for donation. The produce stored will come primarily from the gleaning of the Intervale’s tenant farms as well as from the People’s Farm, which was started by the Intervale Center last year in response to growing food insecurity in the community. The Intervale Center’s free CSA program, the Fair Share distributes gleaned food from Intervale farms and farms in Chitten...

Will Raap Will Raap moved to Burlington in 1980 to work for Garden Way. Just three years later, he started his own business, Gardener's Supply, in a former carpet factory in Winooski. In 1986, Raap relocated Gardener's Supply to the Burlington side of the river, on a piece of land in the Intervale. Raap built his business at the site of an old slaughterhouse on property he leased from dairy farmer Rena Caulkins. A dump was behind her house; a car junkyard occupied land that would soon become the Intervale Community Farm, other organic farms, and ...