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.