In its second year with new ride vendor Reithoffer Shows, the Coastal Carolina Fair will boast eight new rides, almost a dozen new food vendors and an amped-up agricultural program.
Nikki Turner made charms for her family to start, then came earrings. After posting photos on social media, friends and family encouraged her to sell them. Three years later, she now runs Cori Rose Handmade.
From left: Hilma, twig, High Mountain Tropics and Local Hopper meads
Golden Rule Mead s tasting room on Elm Street in Middlebury couldn t be in a much better place. Addison County has long been the hive of beekeeping activity in Vermont. In their 2020 book
The Land of Milk & Honey: A History of Beekeeping in Vermont, Bill Mares and Ross Conrad note that the state s very first beekeeping association was established in Middlebury in 1875. They write that Addison County exemplified the matrix between bees, forage, fruits, and dairy cattle, which gave the area the reputation of a land of milk and honey.