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  1. Pigs Prohibited? Sample Vermont Eats

    Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 10 May 2012

    Here is a sample listing from Vermont Eats—this is a sneak preview of a new listing that will be in the next update

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  2. Vermont Eats...Again

    Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 6 May 2012

    I am thrilled to announce the launch of the Vermont Eats app.... again.

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  3. Android Vermont Eats App is Here

    Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 26 December 2011

    Android users rejoice!

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  4. Autumn Air in the Vermont Appalachians

    Blog: Around The World On The Toilet - 8 October 2011

    The daily grind was starting to feel endless. I couldn’t believe it had been almost a year since we’d been back from our last trip, and I hadn’t been away for longer than 2 days since. We had less than a week available for holidays, so we looked at our options within a close range [...]

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  5. Foodie Heaven In Vermont

    Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 29 September 2011

    LIVE today on iTunes, the free Sutro World App contains Vermont Eats.

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  6. Don’t Get Lost!

    Blog: Vermont's Insider Guide to Kid Friendly Fun - 19 September 2011

    The season to find your way through a corn field has arrived. Farmer’s cut intricate paths in their fields providing hours of fall fun for your family.  These mazes aren’t just a walk in the park, they are an adventure you need to prepare for.  No strollers here, jogging or otherwise.  Little ones are best [...]

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  7. Tour de France Vermont-Style

    Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 13 September 2011

    The Tour de Farms is an annual fund-raising event for three non-profits—ACORN, Rural Vermont and the Vermont Bicycle & Pedestrian Coalition—all working in their own ways to

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  8. App Mania

    Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 9 September 2011

    Busy, busy, busy here producing The Essential Green Travel Guide series of Apps. Green Venice is live and selling swiftly!

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  9. Fair Fun For Everyone

    Blog: Vermont's Insider Guide to Kid Friendly Fun - 31 August 2011

    [Champlain Valley Fair]

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  10. Daub, Dot, Do at Kids Hop

    Blog: Vermont's Insider Guide to Kid Friendly Fun - 16 August 2011

    September 9-10, 2011 Now in its 19th year, the South End Arts + Business Association (SEABA) is presenting a remarkable exhibition of visual art, Vermont’s largest, at the South End Art Hop. The Art Hop is a two-day event occurring on the weekend following the Labor Day holiday. This must see, must do event attracts [...]

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  11. Let’s Get Local

    Blog: Vermont's Insider Guide to Kid Friendly Fun - 10 August 2011

      I am pretty lucky, in my job I get to play tourist in my home state almost 365 days a year.  My favorite times are when friends and family come to visit.  I have an opportunity to plan a few days of touring around Burlington hitting all of my favorite spots and showing them [...]

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  12. A Tale of the Islands’ Creemee Stands

    Blog: Vermont's Insider Guide to Kid Friendly Fun - 24 June 2011

    This year for Father’s Day we decided to take advantage of a special we had spied — a free round of golf for Dad at the Alburg Golf Links.  For us, this meant a trip up to the Champlain Islands.  I saw that as a chance to explore and get the lowdown on places we [...]

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  13. All-Family Summer Playgrounds at Vermont Ski Resorts

    Blog: Ciao Bambino! - 12 May 2011

    There is no doubt that ski resorts are designed for winter fun. But when the snow melts and the spring flowers appear, there's a magical transition from winter wonderlands to summer playgrounds. Ski trails turn into hiking and biking trails. Meadows become ideal settings for summer fairs and festivals. Ice-skating rinks become fishing ponds and ski programs become summer camps. Best of all, lodging usually is discounted with great off-season rates.

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  14. A Vermont Family Getaway

    Blog: Vermont's Insider Guide to Kid Friendly Fun - 27 April 2011

    OK, I have a confession to make — I’ve actually stayed at this hotel in the past. Long before I was Miss Magpie and long before it was the Holiday Inn Club Vacations at Ascutney Mountain Resort, I spent a weekend here.  It may look sort of the same on the outside, but yowza, it [...]

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  15. Sugar Coat It

    Blog: Vermont's Insider Guide to Kid Friendly Fun - 17 March 2011

    Mmmm, you can almost smell the sweetness all across Vermont. The reason? March 19-20th marks the 10th annual Maple Open House Weekend. That means that nearly every sugarhouse in Vermont will have fun maple-related activities, tastings, demos and tours; perhaps you’ll even find a pancake breakfast or two. For anyone new to “Sugar on Snow” [...]

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  16. Being Better at Sugarbush

    Blog: Vermont's Insider Guide to Kid Friendly Fun - 8 March 2011

    My first experience at Sugarbush was spring skiing in March, 2009.  I remember that day clearly. I was enjoying après ski in the sunshine on the porch of Timbers when I met Win Smith, the omnipresent owner of Sugarbush. Since then I have met him a handful of times. But during a recent stay at [...]

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  17. Organic Chai for the Caffeine Sensitive.....in Vermont

    Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 15 February 2011

    Always on the search for divine, but caffeine-free beverages (as opposed to decaffeinated which usually have a tiny amount of caffeine—enough, sadly, to set me off), I have happily found my replacement for chai tea, a particular favorite of mine.

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  18. I am Woman, See Me Ski

    Blog: Vermont's Insider Guide to Kid Friendly Fun - 1 February 2011

    As I met up with my future ski buddies at Sugarbush’s Women’s Ski Discovery Camp, I wasn’t really sure what to expect that cold, but bright Thursday morning. They told me I was going to learn to “ski with out fear”. That appealed to me since I consider myself an advanced beginner with lots of [...]

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  19. Funtown, Vermont – Smugglers’ Notch

    Blog: Vermont's Insider Guide to Kid Friendly Fun - 24 January 2011

    We landed in fun-land around a five o’clock on Friday night. We had come to Smugglers’ Notch to put their wintertime activities to the test.  After a smooth check-in with the friendly and informative front desk staff, we decided to zip over to the rental shop to pick up our daughter’s snowboard gear for her [...]

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  20. Not Just a Flurry

    Blog: Vermont's Insider Guide to Kid Friendly Fun - 18 January 2011

    Let the avalanche begin!  It is winter festival time. Just about every weekend in Vermont, from now until the end of February, you can find a celebration of snow.  Some have sledding and snowshoeing, others igloo building. Most have hot chocolate and lots of them are serving up chili. Make plans today to join in [...]

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  21. Traveling Raw

    Blog: Green Earth Guides ~ Traveling Naturally - 2 January 2011

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  22. Celebrate Good Times

    Blog: Vermont's Insider Guide to Kid Friendly Fun - 31 December 2010

    There are a whole slew of family friendly activities happening to help you ring in the New Year with friends and family. From Montpelier to Burlington there are First Night celebrations all around.  One family friendly performance not to be missed is the Re-Bop Extravaganza. This event features singing local kids and guest artists including [...]

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  23. Jingle Bell Time

    Blog: Vermont's Insider Guide to Kid Friendly Fun - 17 December 2010

    It is a swell time! If you haven’t gotten your tree yet, bundle up and head to one of Vermont’s Christmas Tree Farms this weekend to find the perfect one. Miss Magpie and her family cut down a gargantuan balsam fir at Dave Russell’s last weekend.  We had such a great time, it is this [...]

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  24. Have a Swell Noel

    Blog: Vermont's Insider Guide to Kid Friendly Fun - 9 December 2010

    Most people would agree, December is the most wonderful time of the year. Families share in the traditions and rituals of the holiday season. It is a time to decorate cookies, make gingerbread houses and sit on Santa’s lap. We trim the tree, sing carols and hang the stockings by the fireplace with care. This [...]

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  25. This is How We Stroll

    Blog: Vermont's Insider Guide to Kid Friendly Fun - 3 December 2010

    Santa IS coming to just about every town in Vermont this weekend!  Get your family out to mingle and jingle with the townsfolk.  Here what’s happening: Saturday, December 4 Vergennes Holiday Stroll – beginning at 7:30 am you can chow down breakfast with Santa then hear him read “Twas the Night before Christmas”, visit a [...]

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