Jericho Center has a classic Vermont village green, lined with massive ancient sugar maple trees. Across the green the Jericho Center Country Store has been in operation since 1807. Over the years the store served as a community meeting place to share news and gossip and offered a wide variety of everyday and eclectic goods for sale. Today it mainly sells food products, including Barred Woods Maple.
Elle Purrier St. Pierre from Montgomery Vermont (a few miles down the road from our sugarhouse) made it through the quarter finals and the semifinals and finished 8th overall in the woman's 1500 meters at the Paris Olympics. Ellie has deep ties to rural Vermont farming and maple sugaring and and we are so proud of her representing us at the Olympics.
The April 8th, 2024 solar eclipse passed right over our sugarhouse in Northern Vermont and for a few magical moments transformed our world.
The old sugarhouse still sits peacefully in the woods, its joints creaking with the wind, its wood slowly decaying as young maple trees grow up around it. The first picture was taken in the 1960's and the second picture was taken last week.
The summer of 2023 must have been very good for bears in Northern Vermont. We saw quite a few bears...
This was our second year participating in the "Birder Broker" program sponsored by The Vermont Center for Ecostudies. This is an...
