Jean Conklin, Loan Officer, and Desi Gauthier, Office Assistant, attended the 10th Annual Flavors of the Valley was held on Sunday, April 17th at Hartford High School. Billed as the premier expo for locally grown food in the Upper Connecticut River Valley, this event, organized by Vital Communities featured over 50 vendors. The Co-Op Food Stores of Hanover and Lebanon, NH and White River Junction, VT were the site sponsor. The event was attended by over 1,300 people and provided the opportunity to meet local farmers and chefs, buy local food, as well as sample tasty tidbits.Vendors included: Blue Ox Farm, Bountiful Backyards Bees, Bunten Farmhouse Kitchen, Canoe Club, Cedar Circle Farm and Educational Center, Cedar Mountain Farm, Cobb Hill Cheese, Cobb Hill Frozen Yogurt, Country Critters, D Acres of New Hampshire, Delicata Catering, Edgewater Farm, Edible White Mountain, Flora Fauna Farm, Gizmo’s Pickled Plus, Green Mountain Flour, Harmony Farm, Hogwash Farm, Home Hill Country Inn and Restaurant, Hulbert Outdoor Center, Idlewood, The Restaurant/Marceau’s Fine Foods, Juniper Hill Inn, Killdeer Farm, King Arthur Flour, Lyme Inn, Murphy’s, NH Cheesemaker’s Guild, NH Dept. of Agriculture, NOFA-VT, Norwich Inn, Oak Knoll Dairy, Parmelee Farm, Piermont Plant Pantry, Red Kite Candy Company, Rocky Top Beefalo and Swine Farm, Spring Ledge Farm, Sugarbush Farm, Taylor Brothers Farm, The Song Garden, Thompson Goat Farm, Transition Town, Upper Valley Farm to School Network, Upper Valley Land Trust, Valley Food & Farm, Vermont Chocolatiers, Vermont Farmstead Cheese Company, Vermont Smoke and Cure, Vermont Butter and Cheese Creamery and Walpole Creamery.
