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Summervale

  • 4.5

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Summervale
180 Intervale Road
BurlingtonVT 05401
(802) 660-0440

Ages: 0 - 14+

Cost: Free - Admission is Free | Food and drink is extra

Parking: No

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Summervale celebrates community, Vermont farms, and local food. Each Thursday, join them to enjoy food and beverages from American Flatbread, Farmhouse Tap & Grill, Lake Champlain Chocolates, Three Tomatoes Trattoria, The Skinny Pancake, Sugarsnap, Bluebird Coffee Stop, New Farms for New Americans, and guest vendors... Sample Slow Food Vermont tastings... Groove to local live music... and have fun with City Market food workshops and kids' activities!

 

July 5

  • Music: Dewey Drive Band opening for Lila Mae & The Cartwheels

  • Slow Food Vermont tasting: GREENS.  Learn about all of the different flavors in your salad greens

  • Kids’ craft: Make a wind sock

  • City Market activity: Roll your own sushi

  • Guest vendor: ¡Duino! (Duende)


July 12

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Music: Samara Lark opening for Pulse Prophets
  • Slow Food Vermont tasting: Radishes and butter. Topic: spiciness/pungency molecules. Learn about the magic that happens when you eat radishes with butter

  • Kids’ craft: Newspaper hats

  • City Market Activity: Churn butter

  • Plus Vermont Butter and Cheese Creamery samples


July 19


  • Music: Gumbo Diablo opening for Blue Gardenias

  • Slow Food Vermont tasting: Artisanal & gluten-free bread. Try delicious, local breads and learn why each tastes and looks the way it does

  • Kids’ craft: Face and arm painting

  • City Market activity: Turn wheat to bread
Guest organization: Vermont Beekeepers’ Association

  • Guest vendor: NOFA Vermont


July 26


  • Music: Chris Dorman opening for Kat Wright & The Indomitable Soul Band

  • Slow Food Vermont tasting: Artisanal cheese. Learn about the microbiology of different cheeses
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Kids’ craft: Critters

  • City Market activity: Shake up frozen yogurt
Guest organization: Rural Vermont plus Vermont Butter & Cheese Creamery samples

  • Guest vendor: A Little Peruvian


August 2


  • Music: Zach DuPont Duo with Pat Melvin opening for The Wee Folkestra
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Slow Food Vermont tasting: Local meat & carrots. Learn about terroir, or the “taste of place”
  • Kids’ craft: Instruments

  • City Market activity: Pickle cucumbers
Guest organization: The Root Center

  • Guest vendor: ¡Duino! (Duende), NOFA Vermont


August 9

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Music: Sarah Blacker opening for The Eames Brothers

  • Slow Food Vermont tasting: Herbs and bitters. Did you know taste is 90% aroma? Sample the aroma giants of the food world – culinary herbs – and learn about the bitter taste, an underappreciated taste in the modern American diet

  • Kids’ craft: Plant your own herbs
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City Market activity: Herbal first aid
Guest organization: Guido Mase, Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism

  • Guest vendor: ¡Duino! (Duende)


August 16

  • Music: Linda Bassick & Kirk Flanagan opening for Aaron Flinn Band

  • Slow Food Vermont tasting: Chocolate. Back by popular demand!
Kids’ craft: Crowns

  • City Market activity: Blend smoothies on a bike
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Plus: Park your bikes in style with the Skirack bike valet or join us for our beloved Vermont Farm Tours bike tour of the Intervale!

  • Guest vendor: Wholey Cacao


August 23


  • Music: Scott Mangan & Mildred Moody opening for The Amida Bourbon Project

  • Slow Food Vermont tasting: Apples.

  • Kids’ craft: Apple slice prints

  • City Market activity: Grind applesauce & dry apple strings

  • Guest vendor: NOFA Vermont


August 30

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Music: Antara opening for Michael Chorney & Dollar General
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Slow Food Vermont tasting: Heirloom tomatoes. We will showcase at least 20 heirloom varieties!

  • Kids’ craft: Seedlings in eggcrates

  • City Market activity: Turn corn into tortillas

  • Guest organization: NOFA Vermont

 

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missmagpie

  • 5

Reviewed on 07/08/2011

Set in the gardens, adjacent to a large barn, it is dinner for 500. The setting is magical. There are kids running everywhere, families picnicking on blankets, and music playing in the background. There is a large pond with the perfect willow tree for climbing. Don't forget a net to see if you can catch a frog or two.

The event itself is free and there is plenty to do. There is a separate staffed kids craft area. The night we were there they were making musical instruments from recycled coffee cans and paper towel rolls. There is also an activity done by City Market. Last night everyone was making butter (or whipped cream - depending on how long you shook your jar).

You can bring your own food, but there is certainly plenty there for purchase from wonderful vendors. The line is the longest for American Flatbread ($1/slice). But there is also Mac & Cheese from The Essex ($3), crepes from Skinny Pancake ($5), and Burgers from Farmhouse Tap and Grill, which my daughter thought was divine. There were plenty of dessert choices too like Ice cream from Lake Champlain Chocolate ($3).

This was yet another wonderful "Vermonty" experience and we will definitely be back!
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CouncilorAdrian

  • 4

Reviewed on 09/14/2010

This is summer in Vermont at its very best. Located just minutes from downtown Burlington, Thursday nights have helped my family gear-up for that final day of the work week and sail into the weekend. There are tons of kids running around all over the place. A pond to catch frogs and newts in. A giant willow tree by the pond to climb and have your dad yell at you to get down before you break a leg. In addition to Flatbread (and their Zero Gravity beers), The Bluebird Tavern, Skinny Pancake and Lake Champlain Chocolates Ice Cream have set up stands and all are very, very reasonably priced. The only drawbacks are sometimes the band is too loud; it can get hot in the barn where the band plays and just this year (probably because of some state or city liquor control law) they started roping in the beer drinkers in a pretty small area (you used to be able to walk around). Each week has a sustainable foods theme so it is educational as well. This one just keeps getting better every year....more

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