Natural Supplements Company Helps to Grow the Local Economy
By Colleen Gundlach What started as a small company with just five employees across the street from Lime Rock Park has grown to a worldwide business employing more than 50 people in the center of North Canaan. In a nondescript building on Railroad Street, the Vibrant Health company markets their food-based supplements throughout […]
It’s Only Natural—October 2016
Geography Over the Guardrail By Hans M. Carlson I am a connoisseur of secondary roads, because they give the up-close view of the human and natural landscape that I have highlighted so often when writing about things in and around Norfolk. Interstates by contrast are not really of the places they cross, and for […]
Through The Garden Gate—October 2016
October, “Going Native” By Leslie Watkins Partly influenced by current economics many people today are downsizing to create simple, sustainable and inexpensive lifestyles. As people and events around the world become more familiar to us we see the disparities, and our understanding grows. Studies indicate that we are not following in our parents footsteps […]
Norfolk’s August 2016 Weather
Second Warmest August on Record By Russell Russ August was another warm and sunny summer month for Norfolk. If you like warm, sunny weather with little rain, then this summer has to rank way up there near the top for beautiful weather conditions. August of 2016 was very similar to August of 2015, except […]
Old-Time General Store Opens in Salisbury
White Hart Provisions By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo “Would you like a homemade soda?” is a question I have been asked zero times in my life, but that offering, and other nostalgic touches, is what welcomed me to White Hart Provisions in Salisbury last week. Stepping into the new general store and café at the […]
Stories in a Maple Board
By Hans M. Carlson I’m thinking about the beauty of wood this morning—about the revelation that comes when a seasoned board comes out of the planer and shows itself truly for the first time. This is the moment when wood gives advice. When it hints at what shape it would like to take, as […]
Through the Garden Gate
September, Life En Plein Air By Leslie Watkins Until recent history, human animals have lived mostly out of doors. In the current age of runaway consumerism and modern convenience, we have shifted from spending most of our daylight hours outside to an average of just 90 minutes a day, and that’s in summer! We […]
