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Packed in quart-sized Baggies, the stuff looks rich, crumbly and decidedly illegal. But the label states otherwise: It’s nutrient-rich humus, a.k.a. Premium Quality Worm Castings — the end product, literally, of thousands of red worms, also known as red wigglers, tiger worms, manure worms, stink worms, fish worms, dung worms, fecal worms and striped worms.... Read more

On a Wednesday afternoon, folks driving through Jericho on Route 15 may notice an easel standing by the side of the road that reads something like: Chicken pot pie, spinach lasagna, beef stew, macaroni and cheese. Above it hangs a more permanent sign: "Welcome Kitchen Catering. Homemade meals to go Wednesday."... Read more

It's catchy, quirky, cryptic, trendy. It also leaves people scratching their heads. Eat More Kale?

In the past five years, these three words — in their distinctive, stubby black typeface — have become part of the central Vermont landscape, culture and vernacular. You've seen them printed on T-shirts, and on round green bumper stickers affixed to the backs of cars and trucks. Go to a website called eatmorekale.com, and you can even purchase the motto on an organic cotton onesie for your bouncing baby.... Read more

Chronic fatigue? Depression? Back pain? Listen, maybe it’s time to face the music. Sound therapist Eileen McKusick, 39, practices what she calls “harmonic balancing” by using acoustic resonators to diagnose and treat everything from blocked tear ducts to tight shoulders to vertigo.... Read more

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Ping pong, lattes, plants, OH MY!... Read more

Something subversive is going on at the corner of North Winooski Avenue and Archibald Street in Burlington: sewing.... Read more

It was a typewriter with balls — literally. Before the modern miracle of the word processor, no self-respecting secretary could live without an IBM Selectric typewriter, with its revolutionary golf-ball-like, rotating typing element. Heavy-duty, state-of-the-art and putty colored, the machine’s industrial silhouette has graced millions of desks around the world.... Read more

With the price of oil hovering around $90 a barrel, heating a home in the frigid months can daunt even the hardiest of Vermonters. Enter William Davenport, a 33-year-old mason who builds super-efficient indoor heaters from bricks, mortars and more. The son of a restaurateur (father) and domestic-violence counselor (mother), Davenport grew up in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, before graduating from the University of Vermont in 1996 and entering into the masonry business shortly thereafter.... Read more

The home and workshop of Ray Bates, “The British Clockmaker,” is not hard to find. It’s the only white colonial in Newfane with a giant Union Jack painted on the door. But you don’t just drop by for a visit — he’s got a six-month backlog and keeps the place locked tight to prevent tourists from wandering in.... Read more

This is the time of year Norbert Ender should be baking Linzer cookies. Gugelhupf. Strudel. At least, that’s what you’d expect from an Austrian-born chef trained in classic European cuisine. But instead, he’s holed up in his Burlington secondhand store, called Speaking Volumes, seven days a week. And rather than being covered in flour, Ender, 44, is surrounded by books — from 16th-century tomes to recent paperbacks, and everything in between.... Read more