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The national media has recognized medium-sized “green” cities such as Burlington and Montpelier. But the September issue of Budget Travel magazine shines a light on a smaller, grittier spot — White River Junction. The Junction made BT’s list of “10 Coolest Small Towns,” alongside Catskill, New York, Point Reyes Station, California, and Truth or Consequences, New Mexico.... Read more

Last Sunday’s seventh annual apple-pie-baking competition at Shelburne Orchards drew a slew of Vermont competitors, including one from Fairfax. Nothing unusual about that. But one of this year’s contestants came from even farther afield — 3147 miles away, to be precise.... Read more

About three years ago, Chris Urban bought a notepad at a Middlebury stationer. He was preparing to teach English for the Vermont Migrant Education Program, and his “students” were among the 2500 Mexican nationals living on Vermont dairy farms.... Read more

There’s one in every rural county: a town that’s the butt of jokes for its purportedly extra-rustic inhabitants. The punchlines may involve guys who have more rusted-out cars than teeth. In the Northeast Kingdom, that town has been Hardwick. Case in point: During the 2002 Olympics, a joke circulated on the web about a guy from Hardwick who tried to sneak into the games by saying he was a fencer. As evidence, he presented a roll of barbed-wire fencing.... Read more

Sorry to be the one to break it to you, but if you’re a dairy-eating vegetarian, animals are dying to provide you with slices of tangy cheese to augment your hummus and sprout sandwiches.... Read more

You can stop holding your breath . . . or maybe not. The Vermont Natural Resources board has ruled that Montpelier’s Vermont Compost Company can continue operations — sans Act 250 permit — until 2010. (See Shay Totten’s blog post on Blurt for more information.)

Currently, though, the fate of the composting facility at Burlington’s Intervale Center remains up in the air.... Read more

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.... Read more

Last summer, 13 garbage experts covered a 20-by-10-foot wall with sticky notes. As members of a state-sponsored subcommittee studying “organics,” they were preparing to tell Vermont’s Agency of Natural Resources what should be done with the state’s compostable waste. They had a lot of material to wade through.... Read more

When did kale become so cool? Down at Burlington's Intervale Center, the Healthy City kids are growing vegetables, becoming farmers, volunteering in their community, working a summer job and changing the world, weed by weed.

Check out all the good things the Healthy City Youth Farm has to offer.

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Last week, “Fair Game” detailed negotiations between the Intervale Center and the administration of Gov. Jim Douglas that, in the end, could severely restrict farming and gardening at the 179-acre site.

As we went to press, news broke of another Vermont composter that’s come under the state’s not-so-green regulatory thumb.... Read more