Joia Putnoi

Vermont is the first home to a new, compact wind turbine, the Orb.

Earlier this month nearly 50 volunteers armed with rakes and large pruning tools gathered for the annual spiny softshell turtle beach clean up day. The conservation effort, organized by the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, helps ready the beach for hatching baby turtles.

The Vermont Agency of Agriculture is receiving a $500,000 federal grant so the state can buy locally-grown food from underserved farmers, then distribute it to Vermonters facing food insecurity.

Dartmouth College drills wells to expand its use of geothermal energy. Plus, a cluster of cases of Legionnaires’ disease, the AG won’t charge a Woodstock cop, and weekly COVID numbers.

August in Vermont is primetime for flower harvesting. At Unity Farm in Charlotte, the summer crew assembles between 60 and 100 colorful bouquets daily. As part of our Summer School series, Vermont Public’s Joia Putnoi took a trip to the farm to learn what goes into making one of these bouquets.

Food banks around the state are facing a challenge: how to meet rising demand as food, transportation and fuel prices rise due to inflation.

How nesting peregrine falcons and rock climbers can coexist. Plus, remembering Yvonne Daley, more families head to food banks, and F-35 jets are back in the sky.

After years of waiting, Vermont’s youngest residents are finally eligible for a COVID vaccine. Beginning in late June, the state began offering the shots to kids 6 months to 5 years old. But this rollout is different from previous ones.

A lesson in Shakespearean acting. Plus, a Starbucks store votes to unionize, a long lost lady beetle is found, and the history of the Vermont chapter of the Order of Women Legislators.