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Today is your last chance to enter our first giveaway! What is the prize? You could win a copy of Greenhorns: 50 Dispatches from the New Farmers’ Movement. How do you enter? Just subscribe to the Essex on Lake Champlain Blog! Learn more about the giveaway and the book Greenhorns here! How to Win the Greenhorns Giveaway It’s easy to [...]
Are you ready for the first Essex on Lake Champlain Blog Giveaway? We are, and we hope you are or will be soon! Before we tell you how to enter, take a look at the fabulous prize you could win: Greenhorns: 50 Dispatches from the New Farmers’ Movement. How did this giveaway idea come about? [...]
The winners of the Fall 2012 Champlain Area Trails (CATS) writing contest have been announced! Julia Dixon‘s A Coon Mountain Hike is the overwhelming winner of the online people’s choice award, and the grand prize goes to Paula Castner for The Experiment. Congratulations to Paula Castner, of Lancaster, Massachusetts, won the $500 first place prize in the Champlain Area Trails Travel Writing Contest. [...]
Adirondack Flora and Fauna on the Buddy System by Marian Atkinson is one of the stories entered in this round of the Champlain Area Trails (CATS) writing contest. If you haven’t yet, you should go vote in the contest! Atkinson describes several of her outdoor adventures that she has enjoyed with her daughter. They’ve gone hiking and kayaking in several [...]
Natural Ground by Jane Boxall Allen is one of the stories entered in this round of the Champlain Area Trails (CATS) writing contest. If you haven’t yet, you should go vote in the Champlain Area Trails Travel Writing Contest! I enjoy the way that Allen begins her story. She describes her arrival in Essex on the ferry, and [...]
This season’s Champlain Area Trails Travel Writing Contest submissions are in, and now it is your job to read through the entries and vote for your favorite. Writers have created informative short stories about adventures they have undertaken on one of the Champlain Area Trails (CATS) and other local natural or community sites throughout the Champlain Valley. [...]
It’s time again to get your entries ready for the Champlain Area Trails (CATS) Travel Writing Contest! This is the third CATS writing contest, and let’s try to always make the entry pool larger than the last and share more wonderful local stories. Read past contest entries for inspiration, then get out there to explore and have [...]
The scant quarter inchof rain we finally collected this week was not enough to make much of a dent in the dry soil. The vegetables and pastures are hurting badly for it with stunted vegetative growth and poor yields. Many of the crops that are starting to come in are coming with disappointing numbers and with the stress [...]
The second Champlain Area Trails Travel Writing Contest has ended, and the winners were announced at the annual Celebrate CATS event which was hosted by Steven Kellogg at Blockhouse Farm in Essex, New York on Saturday, June 2. The morning started with rain but gave way as the day worn on. By 4:00 pm when [...]
Jen Zahorchak‘s essay “Turtle Crossing” is a humorous, informative and entertaining entry in the Champlain Area Trails Travel Writing Contest. Zahorchak and her family moved to the Champlain Valley to get away from the negatives of city life and get closer to nature. She remarks that a turtle crossing sign helped them make the decision that their [...]
