



VT Almanac LIVE at the Chandler Center for the Arts
Thank you to Chandler Center for the Arts, Turnip Truck, the…

Bear Bacon
Ken took a fine bear on the second to last day of the season.…

A Point to Make: We Do Forestry Pretty Well Here
The news is full of the Glasgow climate talks these days, and…

Turning a Patch of Lawn into a Vegetable Garden, Part 5
There’s an old axiom that to be a good builder you need to…

Turning a Patch of Lawn into a Vegetable Garden, Part 4
I’m working on a piece about soil fertility for Volume II of…

Trout Fishing
My friend Kris and I met in Mrs. Kevorkian’s kindergarten class,…

Eyes Wide Open
The idea that chickens and gardens are symbiotic is more than…

Current Events
Credit Robert Frost for the proverb “Good fences make good…

EAB monitoring in full swing
Henry Martinka, from Shaftsbury, prepares to hang an ermerald…

Turning a Patch of Lawn into a Vegetable Garden, Part 3
It’s time to figure out a fence for the garden, and the options…

Turning a Patch of Lawn into a Vegetable Garden, Part 2
Year two of the garden project started with a decision: was I…

Turning a Patch of Lawn into a Vegetable Garden, Part 1
Like many people, I decided to start a big vegetable garden in…

April, Part 3
The “drip, drip, drip” of sap landing in a bucket isn’t…