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By Anson Tebbetts
This season, we gather with friends and family. Perhaps you’re getting together for a home cooked meal, a potluck, or a special holiday celebration at the office or workplace. Maybe it’s to visit your favorite restaurant. We are fortunate in Vermont to have extraordinary food and beverages in every corner of our state. This time of year, we enjoy feasts with fresh local veggies, meat, dairy, and specialty food and beverages made right here in Vermont.
Your local farmer works many long hours to produce a harvest that all of us may enjoy. You might find this season’s bounty at the farm at the farmstand, farmers’ market, CSA, retail store or co-op, or maybe delivered to your home. Many of our producers can ship your favorite “Taste of Vermont” right to your kitchen, and Vermonters may efficiently order online to support Vermont farmers.
As we close out 2024, it’s also time to think of our Christmas tree growers. They provide us with the experience of getting that “perfect” tree for our family. Memories of a lifetime can be found, and made, at choose-and-cut farms across our 14 counties. If you have a friend or family member that misses Vermont this time of year some growers will even box up trees, wreaths, or garlands and ship to a home or office. Décor from fresh Vermont trees is as beautiful to smell, as it is to see.
The holidays are also a time for giving and remembering those who are less fortunate. The year 2024 was a difficult time for many. Once again, floods and severe weather destroyed homes, businesses and crops this summer. The flooding is gone from the headlines, but the emotional and economic impact is still with countless Vermonters. You can still support them by checking on them, volunteering to help with chores or bringing them a home cooked meal or treat during the holidays. These acts of kindness often make the world of difference during the hardest of times.
Thank you for all you do to support your neighbors. We are grateful to have the privilege to enjoy the finest foods in the world. And thank you, farmers, producers and all those who make a living off the land. Your work, and the community we find together here in our brave little state of Vermont, is unmatched.
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Anson Tebbetts writes:
“Your work, and the community we find together here in our brave little state of Vermont, is unmatched.”
Excuse me for my cynicism, but I’m done with the flowery portrayal of a once begotten Vermont. The postmodern-Socialists in Vermont’s legislature, calling themselves Democrats or Progressives, have destroyed this vision.
It’s Tocqueville’s vision that is not not wanting in the state of Vermont:
“Society will develop a new kind of servitude which covers the surface of society with a network of complicated rules, through which the most original minds and the most energetic characters cannot penetrate. It does not tyrannise but it compresses, enervates, extinguishes, and stupefies a people, till each nation is reduced to nothing better than a flock of timid and industrious animals, of which the government is the shepherd.”
― Alexis de Tocqueville
You can tell when things are bad when you put your extra free produce from your garden on the lawn in the morning and it is gone that night. Vermont is a leader in molding your mind.
The farmers are barely making ends meet and rely on the dreaded government for subsidies. The people can barely afford to pay for food. So we have, “memories”, long-ago times, when government was in its place, not a monster with tentacles reaching into every household, business; and when people were free in their own Constitutional Republic to have and create wealth – live the American Dream. Not for long Vermonters, Americans, this whole mess will turn-around, it won’t be pretty as D.C. is burning bridges, but it will turn around. God Bless & Godspeed to all working for Truth, God, Family, Country & the Constitution!