As always, admission is free, but please bring cash to purchase delicious food & drinks from our vendors. A portion of all proceeds are donated to the Intervale Center.

Intervale Honey at Summervale!

Thanks to the Vermont Beekeepers Association, you can make supporting the Intervale Center sweeter than ever. We are offering an exclusive gift for donors who make a gift of $25 at Summervale: Intervale Honey! This honey comes from hives right in the Intervale, so it’s as local as honey can get. Your donation helps us support local farmers, local food, local community, and our beautiful community backyard, the Intervale.

GROOVE!  Live music from Emily Day and the Shane Hardiman Trio

A New York/Liverpool trained vocalist and teacher, Emily Day specializes in jazz, pop, and musical theatre singing styles. She joins Burlington favorites, the Shane Hardiman Trio, for a soulful live jazz performance at Summervale.

TASTE! 
Heirloom tomatoes: learn about vegetable umami, sugars, and acids. We will showcase at least 20 local heirloom varieties grown by the Intervale’s own Half Pint Farm! 

Presented by Slow Food Vermont: Creating community through the celebration of good, clean and fair food - locally and globally.

LEARN! Guest Organizations: NOFA Vermont, ReSOURCE, Burlington Urban Agricultural Task Force, and a Children’s Bake Sale for Somalia

The Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont (NOFA Vermont) has been working for local farms, healthy food, & strong communities since 1971. 

NOFA Vermont is a nonprofit association of farmers, gardeners, and consumers working to promote an economically viable and ecologically sound Vermont food system for the benefit of current and future generations.

NOFA Vermont was founded in Putney in 1971, making it one of the oldest organic farming associations in the United States. Today, we are proud to have over 1200 members throughout the state and to certify over 580 farms and processors to the USDA National Organic Program Standards. We are passionate about increasing the acreage of certified organic land in Vermont while also increasing the access of local organic food to all Vermonters. All our programs strive to meet these goals, whether it involves working with schools to bring local foods into the cafeteria or providing business planning services to farmers to ensure their businesses stay viable. Whether you are a Vermonter who gardens, farms, eats local food, or enjoys our rural communities, NOFA Vermont welcomes you.

Rain Barrel workshop - 6 pm and 7 pm, $60 includes rain barrel to take home! Sign up when you arrive at the event.

Learn how to make your very own rain barrel (check out this link that explains why rain barrels are so helpful) during Summervale! Don’t forget your checkbook or cash, as the cost for this workshop is $60, which includes all materials, use of tools, instruction, and post-construction information. You’ll build a barrel to take home, so you should come prepared with a way to take your barrel home with you.  

ReSOURCE’s mission is to meet community and individual needs through education and job skills training, environmental stewardship, and economic opportunities.  


Visit ReSTORE for household goods on a mission, RePAIR for appliance repair, or ReBUILD for building materials and deconstruction services, all on Pine Street in Burlington. Please visit the ReSOURCE website to find out more about the great happenings across Vermont with ReSOURCE and their partners.

The Burlington Urban Agriculture Task Force was created this March by a City Council Resolution.  Our charge is to develop recommendations for a cohesive urban agricultural policy, improved rules and regulations addressing urban agriculture, and steps to better promote and govern urban agriculture in Burlington.  We are working to develop comprehensive vision of urban agriculture for the city. The task force will report out a policy framework grounded in this vision that will support innovative approaches to integrating food systems with urban planning, economic development, and social justice. Learn more about the Task Force at its table this Summervale!

Children’s Bake Sale for Somalia: Community families are coming together to help the people in Somalia who are suffering through a horrible food scarcity. We have organized a table of  baked goods to raise money for the UN Refugee Agency. We will also be selling tickets for a 50-50 raffle. Look for us kids and our families and help our effort by eating some tasty treats!

CREATE!
Intervale Kids’ Craft: Face painting
City Market Activity: Make your own applesauce

 Located in downtown Burlington, VT, City Market/Onion River Co-op is a community-owned food cooperative that provides conventional, organic, and local products at a fair price to all. The Co-Op is dedicated to supporting the local economy and enhancing the sustainability of agriculture.

  
EAT!
Check out a previous Summervale menu! 

$1 slices from American Flatbread Burlington
Farmhouse Tap & Grill’s local burgers & cheeseburgers
Comfort food & pie from The Essex Culinary Resort
Lake Champlain Chocolates ice cream
Global food home made from New Farms for New Americans members
Sweet & savory crepes from The Skinny Pancake
Sugarsnap’s fresh salad & beverage featuring herbs from Sugarsnap Farm 

DRINK!
Iced coffee & teas from Bluebird Coffee Stop
Zero Gravity Beer on tap, including Intervale Pale Ale and a weekly featured beer
Shelburne Vineyards wine

An Interview with Diana Doll, owner of StrayCat Flower Farm.

What is the land you farm on like?

Our farm sits on two acres I call ‘the crown of the Intervale’, since we’re on a bit of higher ground less likely to flood than the rest of the ‘vale.

What does StrayCat grow?

All sorts of plants - flowers, shrubs, foliages, perennials, bulbs. We grow plants that last well in water once cut.

Where are your markets?

Our retail markets are the Burlington Farmers Market, City Market, Healthy Living. We also provide flower arrangements for special events and take phone orders from customers for ‘same-day delivery.’

What did you do before you decided to become a farmer?

I worked at O’Bread Bakery in Shelburne for about 10 years.  I’ll always hold a special place in my heart for Chuck & Carla, who continue to crank out such wonderful bread.

Why did you decide to farm, and where did you get farm experience? 

As a kid, I worked in my mom’s and grandparents’ flower and vegetable gardens; in high school I sold blueberries we grow at my dad’s farm. I worked in a few plant nurseries, but didn’t work at a flower farm prior to StrayCat. I wish I had, though, to lessen the incline on that dang learning curve! 

What most excites you about farming, and what do you enjoy the least?

It’s exciting being in good company with other growers, from whom I’m always learning. I dread making the same mistake twice.

What are the most challenging and rewarding elements of your business?
Most challenging: fixing equipment. Most rewarding: earning a living.

What do you do when you’re not farming?  

I love to read. I call it ‘armchair traveling’, as it brings me to other places and perspectives, and is so affordable! A nice mental break.

Visit StrayCat Flower Farm on Facebook, or follow @StrayCatFlowers on Twitter!
 

Cynthea Wight Hausman, owner of Cynthea’s Spa, is celebrating her spa’s seventh anniversary with blueberries, honey, goat milk and flowers. But the goodies won’t be for customers to eat, they’ll be used in her new Farm to Spa treatments of wraps and scrubs to make skin look and feel great. 

Cynthea and her staff are excited about her new offerings. She notes, “As far as we know, we’re the first urban spa to get involved with the “hyperlocal spa” trend and use local produce and products for our clients. And where better than in Burlington, Vermont? We’re an urban day-spa with a love of our local farmers, and we want to offer a uniquely Vermont experience that you can’t get anywhere else.”

Farm to Spa treatments are based on produce from farm partners of Burlington’s Intervale, including Adam’s Berry Farm, Arethusa Farm, and StrayCat Flower Farm, and Shelburne Vineyards. The offerings will use what’s available in each season to nourish and support all types of skin. Flowers, herbs, fruits and vegetables will all be used for their special properties to meet the needs of different skin types. 

Farm to Spa hand treatments will be complimentary at Cynthea’s Summervale Pop-up Spa!
Farm to Spa products available at Summervale: 
4oz scrub: in various “flavors” $28
2oz scrub: $15
(Cynthea’s Spa can take credit cards on site) 

Cynthea’s Spa has also generously donated a $150 gift certificate for our Raffle Prize. Be sure to sign up at an admissions table to enter the raffle!

Cynthea’s Spa is a petite urban day spa in the heart of Burlington’s Church Street Marketplace. Cynthea and her team are celebrating their seventh year of providing wedding make-up, cosmetics, facials, waxing (with a specialty in Brazilian waxing and brow shaping), massages and body treatments featuring the new Farm to Spa line, in a beautiful, nurturing downtown space. Located right above Speeder & Earl’s on the Church St. Marketplace, a caring staff is here to take care of you because, “You deserve it. We provide it!”

Follow Cynthea on Twitter @CyntheaH, or like Cynthea’s Spa on Facebook.