Lake Champlain Walleye Assoc. [136]

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7/4/09:  Lake Champlain Walleye Association and Vermont Fish & Wildlife have been working for decades to increase the population of walleyes in the lake and its surrounding rivers.

Thursday they harvested a St Albans pond of 12,500 walleye fingerlings which will be making their way into the Winooski River.

Featuring:
http://www.lcwalleye.org/
http://www.vtfishandwildlife.com/

http://www.7dvt.com/

Wiffle Fest [135]

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6/27/09: For twelve years now, CJ Spirito has been gathering his friends and family for Wiffle Fest.  But unlike previous years, this World Series has an unlikely outcome.

Location: Rock Point School, Burlington Vermont

Pete's Greens [134]

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6/23/09: Pete's Greens is a four season organic vegetable farm in Craftsbury. Eva talks to Pete and Meg about the current farming trend, local food as the new growth industry in rural areas and the idea that VT could one day feed itself.

Music: The Jazz Guys, A Blessing in Disguise, "The $6,000 Million Dollar Man"

Greg Davis, Curling Pond Woods, "Brocade (Rewoven)"

Location: Pete's Greens Four Season Organic Vegetable Farm, Craftsbury, VT

Editor's Note: For the record, I've been a member of Pete's Greens' Good Eats CSA since the winter of 08.

Green Mountain Opera Festival [133]

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6/12/09: The Green Mountain Opera Festival is in its fourth year in the Mad River Valley.  This year they bring Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro to the Barre Opera House.

Featuring:
http://www.greenmountainoperafestival.com/

Location: Valley Players Theater, Waitsfield, Vermont

Ava Bishop [132]

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6/8/09: Fashion in VT?  Local designer Ava Bishop is making it stylish to be a Vermonter.

Featuring:
http://www.damnfinepants.com/

Music: Missy Bly, Missy Bly 3, "Handmade Love"
http://www.cleancitysoap.com/

http://www.7dvt.com/

Vermont Joy Parade [131]

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5/31/09: All abooooard for some old timey music, theatrics and good times.  Vermont Joy Parade is a collective group of musicians and performers traveling across the country in a bus fueled by vegetable oil waste.  Don't miss your chance to see this circus when they come to your town!

Featuring:
http://vermontjoyparade.com/
http://www.myspace.com/vermontjoyparade
http://www.myspace.com/httpwwwmyspacecomannapardenik
http://www.radiobean.com
http://bitemeorganicpizzavt.blogspot.com/

Locations: The Rambler House, Radio Bean, Bite Me Organic Pizza, Burlington Vermont

http://www.7dvt.com/

Burlington Farmers' Market [130]

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5/23/09: City Hall Park is THE place to be Saturdays this summer where over 50 vendors/farmers sell their food, plants and produce to the masses.

Featuring:
http://www.burlingtonfarmersmarket.org/
http://www.arethusacollectivefarm.com/
http://boucherfamilyfarm.blogspot.com/
http://www.straycatflowers.com/
http://users.gmavt.net/lcfarm/
http://www.dragonflysugarworks.com/

Music: La Strada, "Flying"
http://www.myspace.com/lastradanyc

http://www.7dvt.com/

Hula Hooping Extravaganza [129]

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5/7/09: Watch out Cirque du Soleil, the 3-5 year olds at Trinity Children's Center are in the midst of a hula hoop revival.  

Music: Pretty & Nice, Pink & Blue, "Stop/Start"
http://www.myspace.com/prettyandnice

Location: Trinity Children's Center, Burlington Vermont

http://www.7dvt.com/

Garden Restoration at Shelburne Farms' Inn [128]

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5/5/09: Lila Vanderbilt Webb constructed the gardens at Shelburne House in the early 1900s.  

Almost 100 years later, the gardens have fallen into disrepair which led to the Shelburne Farms Formal Gardens Restoration Project.

Featuring:
http://www.shelburnefarms.org/

Music:

Swale, Verdigris, "Good Medicine"
http://www.swalesong.com/

Amber deLaurentis, Hey Sadie, "Take Me On"
http://www.amberdelaurentis.com/

http://www.7dvt.com/

Green Up Day [127]

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5/2/09: Last Saturday, 15,000 volunteers across the state of Vermont picked up more than 40,000 bags of trash in honor of Green Up Day. Featured: http://www.greenupvermont.org/ Music: The Activists/Dictators, "Out of the Picture" http://www.reverbnation.com/activistsdictators