We held our “grand opening” celebration yesterday, with food, drink and music for all. The Governor of Vermont — Peter Shumlin, who grew up in Putney and is an old friend of the family — attended and spoke on the bright future of Vermont, especially in light of increased interest in where our food comes from, and how it’s produced. The Brattleboro Reformer has an article (excellent photograph, questionable text) that you can view here (note that...
We in Vermont live close to the natural world, and in general we love it. But there’s no denying that we leave our mark on it — we build roads, walls and sugarhouses for example.
Sometimes the creatures of the natural world do things that we find inconvenient. For several years running a phoebe would build a nest atop a light fixture on our back deck, making it awkward to enjoy it in the warm days of early summer: if we sat out there, she would...
This article in The Atlantic Monthly does a good job of describing, from a connaisseur’s perspective, the differences between the lighter and darker syrup grades.
From our perspective, though, it has one significant error: it states that the lighter syrup grades are generally more expensive, the darker grades cheaper. This may have been true at one time but today — at least at Hidden Springs Maple — this price differential has largely disappeared...
