Plainfield Flower Farm
It was 20 below zero here this morning so, to warm you up, here's a look at the Plainfield, VT, Flower Farm last spring. Bram Towbin and Erica Da Costa…
La Coupe du Monde, Quebec
Nordic skiing World Cup races are rarely held outside of Europe's skiing nations, where almost every winter weekend they are watched by the kind crowds North America can only manage…
Stick Season, High & Low
When the fall leaves hit the ground, it's Stick Season. The reason for the name is obvious but the attractions of this sixth Vermont season aren't. It can mean raw, gray…
Biking Croatia’s Dalmatian Islands
Two generations and a Croatian flag in the town of Stari Grad on the island of Hvar in Croatia's Dalmatian islands. I had the good fortune last week to be…
Wildwater on the Deerfield
On a beautiful late summer afternoon, the United States of America Canoe and Kayak 2012 Wildwater Team Trials began today on the Deerfield River in northern Massachusetts. Fastest kayaks down the…
RAGBRAI 2
More from the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, in all its glory: Above, a mountain bike stunt rider at the bike expo, Sioux Center. Below, they got the…
RAGBRAI!
Every July for 40 years the Des Moines Register and a legion of volunteers have put together a little event called the Register's Annual Great Bicycle Ride Across Iowa, better known…
Cyrus, Elahna & Irene
When Elahna Sobel-Faryniarz saw the damage Tropical Storm Irene did to farmers' fields in Vermont last August, she decided to help. She set up a lemonade stand along Route 14…
Making Fresh Tracks
Christina Castegren and Kris Tootle have done what Vermont farmers of 50 years ago would have considered unthinkable: On the remains of an old hill farm in the central Vermont…
Hanging with Friends
A certain proportion of the graduates of the University of Vermont Class of 2012 are planning to hang around in Burlington, at least for the summer. After the graduation…
But Not Yet
Spring arrives low in Vermont and then slowly climbs the mountains, so if you get even halfway up, it's still like March, as it was yesterday at about 1,600 feet…
Spring Turns a Corner
In the Vermont hills, we're finally moving from the gray browns of March into the soft green pyrotechnics of Spring: East Montpelier and Calais roads, and one beautiful but unfortunate…
Home Share Gallery
Chandra and her cat were part of the series of portraits I made for Home Share Now, the Barre, VT, organization that matches home seekers with people who have space…
Farm Aid
David Cram and his partner, Anna Coloutti, run the Stone Village Farmers’ Market just north of Chester on Route 103 in southern Vermont. They lost 18 acres of produce when…