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13 Iconic Vermont Brands We Love

Especially around the Super Bowl every year, where the world’s biggest brands market the hell out of their products – some eliciting raw emotion and others promoting downright ridiculousness for the sake of memorability – branding is top of mind for me. Now as a marketer professionally, I […]

Vermont Shops for Last-Minute Holiday Gifts

My dad is notorious for being a Christmas Eve holiday shopper. Now, my mom growing up (and still) is the predominant gift shopper and wrapper for our family. Yet, every year, my dad drives into the town of Middlebury to find one special gift for everyone on his […]

Matthew Taylor Designs Shelburne Vermont

Matthew Taylor Designs, Shelburne, Vermont

Handcrafted Jewelry, Made in Vermont from Matthew Taylor Designs When someone tells you need more bling, you believe them. Or at least that’s a common occurrence when I head down to Matthew Taylor Designs in Shelburne, Vermont. I love visiting with jeweler extraordinaire and badass designer Matthew Taylor […]

Vermont Stocking Stuffers

Vermont-Made Stocking Stuffer Ideas for Foodies

Made in Vermont: Stocking Stuffers for Foodies Stocking stuffers are my favorite gifts to give. You never know if you’re going to open a pair of socks (hey, if they’re Darn Toughs, I’m happy!), a chocolate bar (dark chocolate and salted, please), or something that packs a punch in […]

Vermont Made Christmas Gift Ideas

Vermont-Made Holidays Gifts for 2016

Made-in-Vermont Christmas Gift Ideas for 2016 I love nothing more than giving gifts. I would rather give gifts than receive something any day. I spend hours on end every Christmas season researching and brainstorming the very best gifts for the people in my life. I always like to […]

Vermont Smoke & Cure Real Sticks

Made-in-Vermont Stocking Stuffer Gift Ideas

One of my favorite parts of Christmas is shopping for stocking stuffers. Just because the gifts are tiny doesn’t mean you can’t come up with inventive gifts to fill up a stocking. Plus, if you want to gift useful Vermont-made stocking stuffers, there are so many options for […]

Made-in-Vermont Gifts for the Foodie in Your Life

Let’s be real… a big part of why we Vermonters live in this great state other than the natural beauty, the warm people who comprise our community, the lack of traffic, the clean water and air, the slippery slopes and the mountains that keep calling, is the food. I would argue […]

SILO Featured - Distillery, Windsor, Vermont

SILO Distillery, Windsor, Vermont

Rules are meant to be broken. You only live once. Carpe diem. When I walked into SILO Distilleryin Windsor, Vermont—the birthplace of Vermont—in the middle of “dry January,” all of these sayings came to mind as I decided to forego willpower and a month of abstention (which, let me tell you, […]

Lincoln Pottery

Lincoln Pottery, Lincoln, Vermont

I had never even considered the “honor system” before moving to Vermont. My first time seeing the serve-yourself, honor-system at play was at Duclos and Thompson Farm in Weybridge, Vermont, where you can pull right up to the farm, walk into their freezer and help yourself to local sausage or lamb. Then tally […]