Brave Little State

Leave your grocery store apples at home and join our search for this most unusual Vermont fruit.

From the mysterious Gibou to the law that asks you eat a serving cheese with apple pie, Brave Little State digs into its archive to answer listener questions while celebrating 200 episodes.

It’s a Brave Little State milestone! Vermont Public’s listener-powered journalism podcast published its 200th episode. To celebrate, the team set themselves a challenge: answer 20 listener questions in a single episode.

“There was this huge divide in, like, social grouping and connection … No one really talked to each other.”

A recent episode answers the question: Who uses a park and ride?

The Midwest is home to five Great Lakes. But for a short time in the late 1990s, there were six — after one Vermont lake crashed the party.

Three reporters spent 12 straight hours at one of the busiest park and rides in the state — on one of the busiest travel days of the year — to get to know Vermont from a new perspective.

From the cosmic to the paranormal, this year’s investigation into three peculiar road names — Horn of the Moon, Scotch Hollow and Goodenough — took us to some unexpected places.

Vermont just passed a law banning the use of some pesticides that are known to kill bees. Quebec has had a similar law on the books for years. So we headed north of the border to see what we can learn from our Canadian neighbors.

The sale of the Vermont Lake Monsters in 2021 brought lots of changes. In some ways, it’s a story of renewal. But the more things change, the more they stay the same.