I love being in Vermont. This weekend, I went to Chapin Farms with these lovely ladies. We picked apples, chose a pumpkin and bought cider. The next day, we went to the farmer's market downtown and bought vegetables, which we ate on pasta that night. I absolutely love the idea of eating local and supporting the farming community here in the Burlington area. Go, localvores!
One of my professors was telling my class this week that the tomatoes you buy in the grocery store are generically modified so that they can be dropped from up to six feet and not splatter; that way they will travel well (which they have to do, since most of our produce comes from California). Eh. That's a scary thought, but it's the price paid for having pineapple and mangoes and peaches and pears on the shelves in the middle of January; very unseasonable.
Anyway, the long and short of it is that Vermont is great and that everyone should live here, especially during the plentiful harvest and brilliant days of autumn.
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