Category: Lifestyle
Connect with your children outdoors this summer
| May 16, 2013 | Filled under Boating, Lifestyle |
Do you have treasured childhood memories of spending time outdoors with your parents or grandparents? This summer, take the time to share this experience with your own children. Pack a lunch, put on some sunscreen, and take them on your own hiking or fishing adventure. The time you spend outdoors with kids is where some… Read More
Catch your limit this fishing season
| May 16, 2013 | Filled under Boating, Lifestyle |
Want to catch your limit this fishing season? You`ll need practice and time-tested wisdom. “Even with the basics down, perfecting your techniques can help you take home bigger catches. A day on the water is a learning opportunity for a novice or a seasoned fisherman,” says Joe Cermele, fishing editor of Field & Stream magazine… Read More
Cleaning the right way to remove allergens
| May 16, 2013 | Filled under Home & Garden, Lifestyle |
When you’re done with spring cleaning, you may assume you’ve eliminated any allergy triggers that were lurking in your home. But the truth is, if you don’t clean the right way, you might be making the problem worse. More than 40 million Americans suffer from allergy problems, and 25 million have asthma. If your cleaning… Read More
Using compost in the garden
| May 16, 2013 | Filled under Home & Garden, Lifestyle |
By Ann Hazelrigg, Extension Plant Pathologist at UVM Composting can reduce the amount of waste material going into our landfills and can serve as a beneficial soil amendment used to improve organic matter and biological activity in gardens. Unfortunately, as was found out last spring, compost can also harbor some not-so-beneficial things. In June 2012… Read More
Shelburne Vineyard features plein air exhibit, summer artist reception June 2
| May 16, 2013 | Filled under Arts & Entertainment, Lifestyle |
Soon Shelburne Vineyard’s new summer art exhibit will feature the work of artist, Susan Abbot. The show will open on Sunday, June 2, with an artist reception to be held from 2-4 pm, and her paintings will hang through August 31. During the reception Abbot will be present to share her perspectives and mingle. Light… Read More
May watercolor series at Village Wine and Coffee
| May 16, 2013 | Filled under Arts & Entertainment, Lifestyle |
“Les Bicyclettes De Paris” is an ongoing series of small watercolor paintings started by Katra Kindar in 2011. “I have the good fortune to travel to the South of France once or twice a year to visit my son and his family and I always make a pilgrimage to Paris for a few sacred days… Read More
Dog Bite Prevention Week May 19-25
| May 16, 2013 | Filled under Lifestyle, Pets |
by M. Kathleen Shaw, DVM, Chair of the VVMA Media Relations Committee Every year, about five million people are bitten by dogs—half of these are children—and almost one million of those require medical attention. Medical bills and the emotional damage, especially to children, are incalculable. How can man’s best friend be responsible for so much… Read More
Spring pet poisons
| May 16, 2013 | Filled under Lifestyle, Pets |
by M. Kathleen Shaw, DVM Chair of the VVMA’s Media Relations Committee Many people are beginning to realize the dangers of landscaping items such as cocoa mulch and stainless steel edging but there are many more potential dangers for pets when you start your springtime lawn and garden care. While flowers are colorful and fragrant,… Read More
Sun is shining ~ Let’s really eat out: BARKEATERS
| May 8, 2013 | Filled under Lifestyle, Restaurant |
By Julia Donnini The warm woodsy interior of the Shelburne restaurant is well-known to diners around the county—but who wants to sit indoors when the sun promises warm shoulders and the breeze cools a season’s first sunburn? As usual, winter or summer, indoors or out, Barkeaters delivers. Co-owners Jack and Carolyn Kovac of Charlotte, and… Read More
Impatiens Downy Mildew comes to Vermont gardens
| May 8, 2013 | Filled under Home & Garden, Lifestyle |
by Eileen Schilling, Horsford Gardens & Nursery Impatiens Downy Mildew is a disease that is specific to Impatiens wallerianna. All varieties are affected. This is the most common species of Impatiens planted. It includes the Accent, Blitz, Double, Trailing, and Butterfly varieties. Impatiens Downy Mildew was first reported in the United States in the 1940s… Read More
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