Named after founder Allie Dercoli and her dog Fin, FinAllie Ferments crafts sauerkraut and kimchi using locally grown produce. They combine traditional fermenting processes with fun combinations of local ingredients to create ferments with complex and exciting flavors. Stop by our Downtown store on Saturday, April 27to give them a try!

Level up your family's taco night with Bard and Bellom's seasonings. They're bringing the flavors of the southwest to the northeast with carefully crafted, all organic taco mixes. They'll be sampling their flavors Saturday, April 27 at our South End store- swing by and see what the fuss is about!

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Consuming plants as food and medicine is an excellent way to deepen your relationship to the natural environment while nourishing yourself. Join community herbalist Katherine Elmer of Spoonful Herbals to explore (and taste) common medicinal plants growing in backyards and urban spaces on a walk at the Intervale Center. Identification, processing, and safe harvesting of plants from urban areas will be discussed. We’ll also hear from Duncan Murdoch, Natural Areas Stewardship Coordinator of the Intervale Center, on various land use practices at the Intervale. You might come away with a newfound appreciation for those “nuisance weeds”!

Katherine teaches and practices as a clinical herbalist at Spoonful Herbals in Burlington (unceded Abenaki Territory). She is also a faculty member and licensed Health Coach at the University of Vermont Program in Integrative Health and at the Holistic Health Program at Vermont State University.

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Square Foot Gardening is an easy way to plan and plant your garden, using permanent beds to maximize production in small spaces. Peter Burke will join us to discuss all aspects of your garden from planning to planting, constructing raised beds, creating permanent paths, trellising, and methods to avoid a jungle of weeds in August!

Peter Burke is a Certified Square Foot Garden Teacher and has been using and teaching the Square Foot Gardening method since 1981. 

Class will be held in the Community Room of the South End store.

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Consider adding the medicinal and culinary benefits of herbs into your garden and landscape this season! Kara Buchanan, Co-director of Spoonful Herbals shares her decades of herb gardening experience and some of her favorite plants suitable for our Vermont climate for making delicious teas and quality medicine. We’ll discuss plant and site selection, trees, shrubs, perennials and annuals, propagation techniques, flavor and medicinal qualities, best harvesting practices, and suggestions for drying and storage of your harvests. She'll also share a brief lesson about making quality teas from both fresh and dried plant material.

Kara Buchanan received her formal herbal training at the Sage Mountain Advanced Herbal Training Program with Rosemary Gladstar. As a community herbalist, culinary creatrix, and master gardener, she has created products and maintained medicinal herb gardens for more than two decades. She is co-director, educator and gardener at Spoonful Herbals. She stewards the Rooted Heart Rising medicinal garden at Rock Point in Burlington, VT which serves as the primary classroom for Spoonful's Community Herbalism Apprenticeship program and grows many of the cultivated plants used in Spoonful Herbals products.

Class will be held in the Community Room of the South End store.