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Burlington's Intervale
Free! No pre-registration required

Wintervale Days are family-friendly, free events that celebrate cross-country skiing in the Intervale. Local Motion and The Intervale Center are grooming 3 miles of cross country ski trails which you can ski anytime for free! City Market is excited to be at Wintervale Days this year with fun, hands-on activities for kids. In February, we’ll be stringing together apple rings to make home-made dried apples and we’ll be mulling up hot cider! Wintervale Days will also feature free ski and snowshoe demos, cross-country ski clinics, hot chocolate, winter tree ID and wildlife walks, and so much more.

Check out all the details online: intervalecenter.wordpress.com/wintervale

The Sustainability Academy (map)
$5 for City Market Members, $10 for non-members

Say “I love you” with a red soup this Valentine’s Day. We’ll make two different styles of borscht as well as beet kvass, a refreshing lacto-fermented beverage that is also beautifully pink! Jason Frishman, from this summer’s Preserving the Harvest series, will return with some of his favorite healthy winter recipes.

City Market (map)
By Appointment

Have you ever been interested in using herbal medicine to improve your health? Join Betzy Bancroft RH (AHG), Larken Bunce MS, and Guido Masé RH (AHG) and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism in a free, personalized session focused on your individual constitution and any health conditions you may be experiencing. An incredible opportunity to explore the art of herbal healing with experienced practitioners! All sessions last about an hour and a half and are completely confidential. By appointment. Please sign up by contacting Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism at info@vtherbcenter.org.

City Market (map)
$5 for City Market Members, $10 for non-members

Learn about the many medicinal properties of turmeric while tasting several recipes. We will make Golden Milk, Greek Yogurt and Turmeric Dip, Anti-Inflammatory Tea, and more! If you have a favorite recipe, bring it to share and copies will be made for everyone to take home. Everyone will leave with a new appreciation for turmeric and many new recipes!

Memorial Auditorium (map)
Free!

Stop by the City Market table at the Burlington Winter Farmers’ Market to sample the finalists in the We ♥ Local Food recipe competition. This year, we’re collecting recipes for savory carrot dishes and will sample the top 3 recipes at the market. Stop by to pick up the recipe cards, sample all 3, and vote on your favorite (the winner will get a $100 gift card to City Market!).

City Market (map)
$10 for City Market Members, $12 for non-members

This workshop will focus on growing a steady supply of fresh greens with only a cupboard and a windowsill. Ready to harvest in just 7-10 days, these greens are good in fresh salads and stir fries. Peter will demonstrate how to grow the bulk of your salad greens with sunflower, radish, buckwheat, pea and broccoli shoots used as examples. Everyone will take a planted tray home from class.

Chittenden Emergency Food Shelf (map)
Free!

Kids, ages 8+ and accompanied by an adult, learn how to be hands-on in the kitchen and prepare home-cooked meals with simple, nutritious ingredients. Adele Dienno, from the Italian Cooking series, draws on her experience cooking with her extended Italian family as she teaches kids how to cook. Beginning with one vegetable base, kids make super nachos, tuscan soup, and pasta primavera. Everyone will sit down and enjoy a family-style meal. This class will be offered again next month with 3 different dishes.

When registering, please select both a Kids and an Adult ticket(s), then fill-out the form with the adult's contact information.

City Market (map)
By Appointment

Have you ever been interested in using herbal medicine to improve your health? Join Betzy Bancroft RH (AHG), Larken Bunce MS, and Guido Masé RH (AHG) and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism in a free, personalized session focused on your individual constitution and any health conditions you may be experiencing. An incredible opportunity to explore the art of herbal healing with experienced practitioners! All sessions last about an hour and a half and are completely confidential. By appointment. Please sign up by contacting Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism at info@vtherbcenter.org.

City Market (map)
$5 for City Market Members, $10 for non-members

Join City Market’s Herbal Education Coordinator, Cristi Nunziata, for an introduction to aromatherapy. Participants will learn what aromatherapy is, how they can safely use essential oils at home, and make and take home aromatherapy products, such as room sprays, massage oil, and bath salts.

City Market (map)
By Appointment

Have you ever been interested in using herbal medicine to improve your health? Join Betzy Bancroft RH (AHG), Larken Bunce MS, and Guido Masé RH (AHG) and students from the Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism in a free, personalized session focused on your individual constitution and any health conditions you may be experiencing. An incredible opportunity to explore the art of herbal healing with experienced practitioners! All sessions last about an hour and a half and are completely confidential. By appointment. Please sign up by contacting Vermont Center for Integrative Herbalism at info@vtherbcenter.org.

City Market (map)
$10 for City Market members, $12 for non-members

Herbs and essential oils can be used to promote hair and scalp health. Many of the commercially available products leave a residue on your hair that can dull its natural shine, and may even contain toxins. Good quality soaps, such as olive oil, can be used as a shampoo alone, or as the base ingredient in natural hair care remedies. Apple cider vinegar, diluted with water leaves hair soft and shiny, invigorates the scalp, and eliminates dandruff, all for mere pennies an application! If you are interested in making your own herbal shampoos, hair rinses, and scalp treatments then this workshop is for you. Includes recipes and samples.

City Market (map)
Free!

A well-stocked pantry is the key to pennywise meals. In this shopping tour, create a custom template for filling your fridge, freezer, and cupboard with affordable foods that are close to nature, nutritious, varied, and plentiful!

The Sustainability Academy (map)
$5 for City Market Members, $10 for non-members

There’s something about fresh, local eggs, poached in a bed of flavorful greens, that says spring is here! We’ll talk about the differences in how eggs are produced and labeled (local, organic, cage-free, pastured, etc.), the health benefits of eggs, and celebrate the first day of spring with “eggs in a nest”, steamed vegetables with homemade hollandaise sauce, and egg custards for dessert.

Burlington's Intervale

What’s a crop mob? It’s a work party on a farm helping out on a big project while enjoying each other’s company and getting to hang out with a really cool farmer. As an added bonus, crop mob volunteers earn City Market member worker hours! Adam (who grows us great organic blueberries, strawberries, and raspberries down in the Intervale) needs many hands helping to pull big sheets of plastic over top of his two strawberry hoop houses. We’ll have warm drinks and muffins to keep our spirits high! The rain date will be Sunday, April 1.