By Deborah J. Benoit Editor’s note: Deborah J. Benoit is a UVM Extension Master Gardener from North Adams, Massachusetts, who is part of Vermont’s Bennington County Chapter. Summer ends and all those lovely annuals we’ve grown so fond of will […]
Tag: Spring
Column, Looking Back
It’s almost bloom time!
By Mary Ellen Shaw Well, we are inching closer to seeing some blooms on plants, shrubs and trees. When they appear it will mean that garden season is just around the corner. Every March I look for the first blossoms […]
Arts, Dining & Entertainment, Arts/Entertainment, Covid 19 local resource guide, Events & Activities, Killington, Lifestyle
Spring events return, in style, post-Covid
By Dave Hoffenberg Editor’s note: These are just a sampling of the top spring events. For a full line-up pick up a copy of the Mountain Times newspaper or visit mountaintimes.info/calendar. Punxsutawney Phil said we’d have six more weeks of […]
Column, Living the Dream
Outwitting the flies
By Merisa Sherman It’s that fun time of year, when there’s a fly in my ear. And my eye, and nose and also my beer. There is so much greatness in Vermont and such wonderful people, oftentimes it feels like […]
Arts, Dining & Entertainment, Events & Activities, Home and Garden, Lifestyle
Spring cleanup will produce better gardens
By Bonnie Kirn Donahue, UVM Extension master gardener It’s spring and that means it’s time to get back into your flower and vegetable gardens. Once the soil has dried out in your flower gardens, remove any sticks, dried leaf debris and old […]
Lifestyle, Living the Dream
Paddling canoes, memories of flat water and family
By Merisa Sherman We pulled into the boat launch just before sunrise, the darkness just lifting enough so that we could see to undo the tie down straps without any help from our headlamps. You could hear the scraping of fabric […]
Column, Lifestyle, Living the Dream
Reborn this spring
By Merisa Sherman Holding my mug in my hands, I stare out the window at my garden. My forehead is almost pressed to the glass, the warmth of the morning sun just starting to take effect. I empty my mind […]
Featured, Local News
Bear Mountain Mogul Challenge, a rite of spring
Killington Resort’s annual Bear Mountain Mogul Challenge competition, being held Saturday, April 7, is a rite of spring ushering in the season with soft bumps and a big tailgate party as amateur bumpers take to the slopes of Outer Limits. The […]
The Outside Story
Spring: raccoons and other mischieveous critters
By Meghan McCarthy McPhaul Often, during my forays into the woods behind our house, I wonder who might be occupying the holes carved into tree trunks by time and nature. The barred owls I hear hoo-hoo-hoo-hooing, maybe, or the chittering […]
Arts, Dining & Entertainment
Spring into summer at Brandon Church
Saturday, May 27, 9 a.m.—BRANDON—On Saturday, May 27, the lawn in front of the Brandon Congregational Church and Fellowship Hall, 1 Carver St., Brandon, will be filled with activity. Brandon-grown trees, shrubs, perennials, annuals, herbs, veggie starts, herbs and containers […]