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Focused on growing conscious food and agriculture businesses, the Entrepreneur to Table Summit will take place in Brattleboro on Thursday and Friday, June 1 and 2. Presented by the Strolling of the Heifers' Slow Living Summit and Windham Grows, the Stroll's agricultural incubator program, the Entrepreneur to Table Summit aims to directly impact the growth of food and agriculture industry by investing in local communities, businesses, and farms that support it. “Starting a business is challenging mentally, physically, and financially,”
Abi Healey: My friendship with Angela Berkfield started with new parenting (we were both pregnant for the first time) and quickly moved into common interests and a deep connection. When my son was born, and wasn't able to nurse effectively, she became one of his milk mamas, stocking our freezer with mason jars full of breast milk. The first summer of our kids' lives, we gardened together; when our babies were just a few months old, she proposed that our...
Next Stage Arts Project Next Stage Arts will present a special literary event on Sunday, Jan. 24, at 7 p.m., with Vermont Poet Laureate Chard deNiord, hosted by renowned poet, Verandah Porche. There is a suggested donation at the door of $10. Beyond being the current Poet Laureate of Vermont and creator of the Next Stage Speaks Poetry series, deNiord is the author of five books of poems, Interstate (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015), The Double Truth (University of Pittsburgh...
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