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On your table...
. The Delightful Fresh Flavor of Our Area
Fresh Organic Chicken or Duck Eggs
from several local farms.
Butter from the Vermont Butter & Cheese Company
cultured and extremely delicious.
.Organic Milk and Cream
from our local farms.
Local Artisan Cheeses
from Vermont and New Hampshire.
Seasonal Fruits & Vegetables
from our local organic farms and orchards.
Herbs from Our Own Garden
Maple Syrup
from our friend Greg’s little sugarhouse down the road.
Really Good Bread
made in Vermont, the spelt is grown less than a quarter of a mile from our house!
Some days, we make our own bread from a sourdough starter we created from grapes from our friend's local vineyard.
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And always, the soundtrack to life at the Inn, really good local music...
made in Vermont and New England music,
whether local folk, roots, blues, even the Vermont Symphony Orchestra
So Just What Is the Vermont Fresh Network?
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The Vermont Fresh Network encourages farmers, food producers and chefs to work directly with each other to build partnerships. Building these regional connections contributes to stronger local communities and their economies.
The quality and beauty of Vermont's landscape depends upon working farms and working farmers. The Vermont Fresh Network is dedicated to promoting and publicizing Vermont chefs and restaurants that use Vermont grown and produced foods. Our beautiful open fields and scenic landscape also attract tourists and improve our own quality of life.
Chefs that purchase the products of our working landscape are helping to maintain this agricultural heritage and contribute to the future of Vermont's farm economy. For this reason, the VFN connects farmers with chefs, and promotes these partnerships.
The purpose also is the education of the consumers. Through the Vermont Fresh website, you’ll find links to help educate the dining public of the wholesomeness, nutritional value, freshness, and safety of Vermont grown foods, as well as the economic impact of supporting local businesses.
The site offers the traveler our concept of cuisine tourism. Most of all we hope to educate anyone who visits with us a philosophy of preserving our rural identity and lifestyle in Vermont! Of keeping Vermont farms working and keeping our green spaces open.
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And What is a “Green” Hotel?
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Vermont's Green Hotels and Environmental Partners are using sound environmental management practices to reduce their impacts on the environment, improve their bottom line and satisfy customer demand for environmentally conscious lodging establishments.
The programs, Green Hotels in the Green Mountain and Vermont Business Environmental Partnership, provide assistance to innkeepers desiring to achieve the environmental standards set for the program goals.
Green Hotels are about saving - reducing material use, reducing waste, reducing electricity use, and ultimately reducing greenhouse gases often assessed as carbon dioxide equivalents (CO2E) - which all add up to saving money and the environment.
A Green Hotel is any Vermont lodging establishment that solidifies its commitment to environmental excellence by achieving a set of environmental standards. Although each property achieves these standards uniquely, each conducts an environmental opportunity assessment, adopts environmentally preferable practices, and develops an environmental management plan that guides its efforts to continually reduce the environmental consequences of its operations.
This statewide voluntary, environmental technical assistance and business recognition program, part of the Vermont Business Environmental Partnership, is designed to promote and recognize the work of Vermont lodgers who demonstrate daily that environmental and economic goals can be achieved simultaneously.
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Green Hotels in the Green Mountain State
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We are also proud members of the following organizations: