Harvest Festival in Shelburne Farms

Last week took placed one of the greatest festival in Vermont: The Shelburne Farms Harvest Festival.

What a amazing place and event, full of great people, delicious food, rural traditions and music! It's a magical place, and this is one of the those events where the word community takes a real form. You walk three steps and you bump into someone you know. It's awesome! It's like a party with all your friends! And it's a great opportunity to spend some good money, buying healthy, local food, some handmade craft, or a warm baked good.

Here is what I got that day:

• a Shelburne Farms bakery-made baguette
• a CD of harp and dulcimer - the musicians were right there playing, so it was a direct contribution to their own economy
• brownies to help Hands to Honduras, a local non profit
• lots of roasted corn (yum!)
• ham and Shelburne Farms cheese sandwiches (another big yum!)

Tickets were $8 for adults and $5 for kids, not expensive for a day full of fun and farm learning.

Here are some of friends I bumped into (and there were a few more I did not ask to take a photo because I felt too weird):

Shelburne Farms

hay rain

art in the middle of the forest

cars, cars, and cars (oh well, we had to get there somehow)

farm machinery

Cliff and Maria

Connie and Dominic

Peter Shumlim

(politicians never miss a chance to campaign)

Jeff, Bob and Pat

Roxana and hubby

Oscar, Kari and baby

with Lori and Lynn

Lucy and her daughters, Ella and Julia

Linda of Hands To Honduras

Marcela

Ruben, Estela, Ale and Bella

Megan of Shelburne Orchards

Kevin, Constancia and Lucia

Juan Pablo and Eduardo

Ursula and Florencia

dear Juanita