Level Up Your Next Picnic with Treats from the Makers of Vermont

One of my best friends from Santa Cruz moved to Vermont to live on a sustainable farm after college, and I have to admit that I’ve been enamored with the lifestyle ever since. Especially so these days, when I find myself yearning for a simpler, less urban lifestyle. If there’s one thing that the past few months has helped me to further realize, it's that I want to continue to be closer to my food source, and be surrounded by doers, makers, and outside-the-box thinkers, and to me that’s exactly what the state of Vermont is all about. So, to further stoke my wanderlust for this gorgeous corner of our country, I made a socially-distanced picnic with Vermont foodstuffs to showcase what it’s all about.

For my travel-inspired picnic, I swapped out honey for maple cream from Morse Farm, an 8th generation family- owned Vermont maple syrup farm. Maple syrup is one of Vermont’s specialties, and has been since long before colonization. The indigenous population actually taught the early settlers how to extract this sweet nectar from the trees, and the sap is now a staple of the region. It tasted phenomenal with the briny, salty goats milk cheeses and herbed cheese curds from Boston Post Dairy, a family run farm located in Enosburg Falls, Vermont, and the delicious wines from Shelburne Vineyard. To top it off I played my charcuterie board with some figs from my garden, as well as Lake Champlain chocolates, another local Vermont specialty.

It was an absolutely epic spread, and one that definitely inspired me to plan a trip out East ASAP.

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This post is sponsored by Vermont Tourism.