Glad you liked it! Alie Ward is a gifted science communicator and chooses really great guests who really dedicate their lives to the fields they are working in. Sometimes I learn things that connect two topics and my brain goes “brrrrrr!” Stay warm out there OP!

I haven't eaten at Junction (Essex Resort - they grow some of their produce and such, but they source locally for the rest), but I know they have a private dining room. I have eaten at Tavern, who also source locally, many times as it was convenient to my mom's Alzheimer's community. Tavern also has private dining in the Timber Room, but I don't know the capacity. The website for Junction says 10 people though. You could ask the Essex Resort if they can do a larger group.

Spread it around! Try and sound like a Florida cracker for me when you say it though 😂

Vermont Fine has a private upstairs banquet room and they would love to accommodate your family! I just went for my fiancés birthday; the food was brilliant and the setting was classy but mellow, not at all uptight. I encourage y’all to give the new chef-owners, Chelsea and Tom a chance to wow you! https://www.vermontfine.com

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...if your worth your salt.. whatever the fuck that means. Fucking boomers

You should check out adventuredinner.com

We commercially raise hogs and beef. About 1200 butcher weight hogs and 60 finished beef per year, farm about 500 acres and have around 200 acres of woodlands. I also work part time on a 40k tap maple operation. I work with a forester constantly, and we’ve had a lot of conversations about shifting species and how to manage for the inevitable.

With the annuals/perennials I’ve found that our cool season perennials just aren’t doing as well, and I’m planting more warm season annuals following the pig rotations to be grazed off, instead of trying to get my perennial rotation started immediately, 20 years ago we didn’t have the climate to do that IMO.

As far as my initial comments, I just truly find it extremely frustrating how people on both sides of the debate can’t separate weather from climate. I’m not at all a climate change denier, I just believe that being accurate matters.

Michael's on the Hill is fabulous, so you definitely can't go wrong there. I've heard wonderful things about Philo Ridge Farm, which is very much farm-to-table. The restaurant at Shelburne Farms is also quite good!

It was a joke. BUT I did have a neighbor with one of those things, I can only see one neighbor from my property and this is the guy who had one. All I could see was a huge blue container across the way. The second happiest day we had was when it was hauled away, the next happiest was when he moved. He also had a hog pen built out of pallets, just nailed together to form a pen, and two sets of grandparents permanently living in campers on the property, complete with old tarps thrown over the top to supplement leaky roofs. Kids swearing outside all day long, like little kids. I guess all I think about is I live in the middle of nowhere, but I have to be next to this dude... Sorta' the image that those containers conjure up in my mind.

Obviously, you do you, it's your property.

I'm glad our convo got to this point because the way you put your original argument seemed to give short shrift to the new reality. That the odd weather day was unrelated; it is, insofar as it will only be odder.

I'd about given up on annuals completely and went perennials whereever possible. Ash is sad, hemlock too. Have you had/asked a forester to pay a visit, its free. Same with coop Xtension.

Horticulture-wise, If you have the space/ability/inclination ... I would suggest you get a beehive or two. Free-range guineas (or chickens) are a big plus too for aeration and killing ticks. I.E. think synergistic where able.

Good Luck!

I like that. Borrowing it

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Go to home depot they have sheds you could use one of those as a coop, they might even have coops, check out farming suppliers too like tractor supply you might be able to order something they don't have in stock but carry on the website.

That would possibly be the most expensive chicken coop in Vermont and look the worst.

Come to Island Pond! Very nice area!

Half the party needs to be girls? What a strange rule. I guess it's an attempt to protect people's safety, but still.

(rainman voice) I’m sorry that that’s your response in 2023.

Respectfully disagree that it’s a good idea to chalk things up to ignorance and ignore it. I hate to go down the whole ‘in a democracy… informed electorate… yada yada’ thing so we can table that… but if you want to be taken seriously and not just get an agreeing nod from buddies at the bar or at the barbershop then I’d say it’s important for respectful critique as to bend your statements closer to the accurate truth. In this case, not a climate scientist, but it’s actually a major difference (climate vs weather). Like the difference between the type of car and the specific model. I’m sure you could come up with a major difference in your specialties that appear to an outsider superficial.

So what if I want to see pictures of a giant Garfield eating a lasagna the size of a house

Or perhaps your comment is a joke to imply that you wouldn't want to live next to a shipping container. It's going to be fenced in anyway and not very visible

I don't know. Any other identifying info?

I’m sorry that that’s your response in 2023.

I lived in New York City for 15 years.

What type of autistic are you? Trains? Elevators? Guns?

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[edit] ok i looked its guns. please don't shoot me

You’re not my neighbor are you?