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Getting By: Vermont Thrift-Seekers Practice Glean Livingnew

The process of culling leftovers from farmers' fields, called gleaning, is as old as agriculture itself. Several Bible passages actually mandate that growers leave the last bits of the harvest for "the poor and the stranger."

Seven Days | Suzanne Podhaizer | 10-05-2009 | Food+Drink

Tags: gleaning, food, Vermont, farming, agriculture

Vermont Restaurants Struggle With the Packaging Issuenew

Nearly everybody gets food "wrapped up to go" at some point. And eco-conscious diners judge restaurants on their packaging. But when options include Styrofoam, aluminum, corn, bamboo and recyclable plastic, the decision is anything but easy.

Seven Days | Suzanne Podhaizer | 06-26-2009 | Food+Drink

Tags: food packaging, Vermont, environment

The Town of Shoreham, Vt., Takes It (Almost) All Off for a Good Causenew

The Shoreham Uncovered calendar brings a little zing to 2009 with 12 full-color photographs featuring townspeople in familiar locales -- and little else. What sets this calendar apart from its predecessors is the diversity of the participants: men and women, old folks and young, natives and newcomers are all in the buff together.

Seven Days | Pamela Polston | 12-03-2008 | Culture

Tags: Vermont, nudity, 2009, calendars

The 'Forever Young' Generation Reflects on Life in Vermont's First Communesnew

A revival of Hair is giving audiences in New York's Central Park a vicarious contact high these days, but memories of the bygone Age of Aquarius in Vermont have sparked an upcoming commune reunion and a new book, Farm Friends: From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond by Tom Fels.

Seven Days | Susan Green | 08-25-2008 | History

Tags: Vermont, history, 1960s, communes, Hippies, Farm Friends: From the Late Sixties to the West Seventies and Beyond, Tom Fels

With a Halal Slaughter Facility, a Vermont Farmer Becomes an Unlikely Cultural Ambassadornew

Halal meat isn't easy to come by in the Green Mountains. "These people have a right to participate in their religious convictions," Arthur Meade suggests. "And there's no place in the state to do it. I allow people to practice their beliefs in clean, safe conditions. They bless the animals. It's a little bit of home."

Seven Days | Suzanne Podhaizer | 06-13-2008 | Food+Drink

Tags: religion, Vermont, Muslims, butchers, halal

On the Yak Tracknew

Vermont agriculture's next great hope hails from the Himalayas.

Seven Days | Suzanne Podhaizer | 05-05-2008 | Food+Drink

Tags: food, Vermont, agriculture, yaks

A Wannabee Butcher Tries Out Her Chopsnew

Some middle-aged dudes might fantasize about rock-star camp. Others will pay a mint to don big-league pinstripes and run around the field. Me, I just wanted to dismember an animal.

Seven Days | Alice Levitt | 04-28-2008 | Food+Drink

Tags: Vermont, meat, butchers