The Mad River Valley Village

North by Northeast- Navigating Your Small Business
2023-09-30 08:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Vermont State University Randolph Center Campus, 124 Admin Drive, Randolph Center, Vt 124 Admin Drive, Randolph Center, Vt, Not Specified, Vermont, Randolph, United States
Of the nearly 80,000 small businesses in Vermont, 61,921 of those are ONE person businesses: the solo-preneur. And thousands more are two or three people. This day is for YOU.
Please join us for a day of free resources, connections, inspiration, and lunch! Map out your day with information and networking that matters to you. Our speakers will deliver information tailored for teams of one to three people.
-Funding, Marketing, and Legal Workshops
-Networking with small business resources
-Lunchtime Table Talks
-Inspiring keynote speakers at the beginning and end of the day
This event is hosted by the Community Navigator Pilot Program’s (CNPP) partners who have joined together to support the growth of small businesses in Vermont, and to ensure that every small business owner knows about and has access to the services and support available to help you succeed.

Waitsfield Farmer’s Market
2023-09-30 09:00 - 13:00
Local produce, plant starts, fruit trees, bushes, maple, honey, flowers, seedlings, eggs, meats, cheeses, fish, crafts, art, clothes, bread, baked goods, liquors, and prepared foods all by Vermonters.
Saturdays from 9:00 AM to 1:00 PM
May 13th – October 14th, 2023
* Note: There is a smaller, unofficial market on October 21st that is optional for vendors.

Volunteer Mountain Work Day
2023-09-30 09:00 - 16:00
Volunteer Mountain Work Days will once again utilize pre-registration and limit the total group size. Space is extremely limited, don’t wait, register online by clicking this link.
Registration/Contact information will ensure that we can communicate with participants in the event that covid precautions may be needed or in case severe weather is likely (this will reduce the risk of needing to take shelter in on-mountain facilities where social distancing is unable to be maintained). Events will be confirmed by 6:00 pm the day prior via the contact email provided. A wait list will be maintained with open slots filled by 6:00 pm the day prior.
Any minors that register must be at least 12 years of age, accompanied by their legal guardian/parent throughout the day, no dogs are allowed.

General information: The purpose of Volunteer Mountain Work Days is the maintenance of MRG’s legendary tree skiing and regeneration zones in our mountain forest. This involves cutting lines as well as setting aside areas for new trees to grow. Everything is done with hand tools. Work days are organized and led by Lars Bruns in consultation with ski area management. Volunteer Mountain Work Days are a great chance to get out on the mountain, care for your favorite terrain, and learn about how northeastern mountain forests grow. It is hard work, but also fun and satisfying to see a ski line take shape, and how trees will grow in response to care.
We welcome both experienced veterans and newcomers to the mountain work days. Each person who works a full day receives a complimentary day pass voucher for each day she or he works.
Registration Required – Summer/Fall 2023 Schedule (all Saturdays)

August 19th
September 23rd
September 30th
October 7th
October 28th

Logistics

Report at 9:00 am at the Cricket Club picnic table. We’re back down at 3:30 – 4:00 pm.
Most of the time we hike from the base, so be prepared to hike.
Only in cases of highly probable severe weather will a work day be canceled (registered participants will be notified via email by 6:00 pm the night prior). Working in the rain is fun!
Bring work gloves, hiking boots, drinks & lunch.
Loppers are the most useful tool to bring. Make sure they are in good working order.
Work days navigate our gnarly terrain; no dogs or kids under 12 please. Minors under the age of 18 must register and be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian.

The incidence of Lyme Disease is increasing rapidly in Vermont. This disease is debilitating and hard to get rid of. More Info on how to protect yourself while thrashing around the woods of Stark Mountain.
The following tools are not allowed: All power tools such as chain saws, and swinging tools such as hatchets or axes.
Outfitting for Rain Events:

Outer layer – The primary function is to hold in heat, as well as keep water out for as long as possible.

Goretex shell or other rainwear
Waterproof pant shell – old ski pants work well
Waterproof gaiters (Goretex)
Waterproof boots beforehand
Brimmed synthetic hat and fleece hat
If the weather is warm, then staying warm is not a problem. Fast-drying shorts, gaiters, and a rain shell may be sufficient.

Inner layers – No cotton – must keep one warm when wet.

Wool or synthetic shirt and long underwear
Fleece
Wool socks
Thin windbreaker underneath the shell to hold even more heat in

Other Tips

Put dry (synthetic) clothing in a garbage bag
Bring a second synthetic inner layer shirt (in the garbage bag) to change into at lunch
Put first aid kit in a waterproof bag
A thermos of hot tea or soup. Caffeine constricts capillaries and should be avoided
Bring backup gloves. Cold hands will not warm up in wet gloves

Home Design/Build
2023-09-30 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-01 09:00 - 17:00 | Yestermorrow Design/Build School, 7865 Main Street, Waitsfield, 05673
This course has been offered since 1980 and is the heart of our curriculum. It is appropriate for a range of individuals, from the person who wants to “do it all” to the person who simply wants to be informed enough to have meaningful and productive conversations with his or her architect and builder. Students will learn through hands-on construction projects, studio sessions, lectures, slide shows, house tours, and discussion. The Home Design/Build Course will provide individuals with the fundamental skills and resources necessary for creating their dream home – be it new construction or renovation. This course is also a good introduction for those interested in pursuing an architecture or building career. At the end of this intensive course, students typically leave with schematic floor plans, a scale model, and section and elevation drawings. They have gained a new awareness of design, materials, and the process of realizing a home that reflects their values and lifestyle.

Design/Build for Public Spaces
2023-09-30 09:00 - 17:00, 2023-10-01 09:00 - 17:00 | Yestermorrow Design/Build School, 7865 Main Street, Waitsfield, 05673
You will engage in the hands-on process of designing and building a full-scale community project alongside a nonprofit partner or local community member. Class kicks off with a client meeting where students address a structural need. From there, the team will work within a budget, propose and develop a design, schedule the work, and ultimately build the structure throughout the duration of this two-week class.
A flagship Yestermorrow course that has yielded whimsical structures like the infamous Snail bus stop structure, a mobile farm stand for Shelburne Farms, and a trail shelter for the Mad River Path and more. Students are given the creative freedom to design a project that meets the unique needs of their client. As a result, this course often produces unique and whimsical structures – a building style that Yestermorrow is known for.
This year, we will be building a structure for the new Warren Dog Park. Make your mark on the community, and provide shelter for your neighbors for years to come.

SMF Presents: Wildlife Tales
2023-09-30 10:00 - 11:00
Wildlife Tales ​with the Southern Vermont Natural History Museum presents: Meet the Mammals
SEPTEMBER 30, 2023, WILDLIFE TALES PRESENTATION 10-11 AM, MAD RIVER GLEN BASEBOX 3RD FLOOR
Please join Stark Mountain Foundation during Green & Gold weekend for an all-ages presentation called, “Wildlife Tales,” by the Southern Vermont Natural History Museum. SMF and SVNHM invite you to journey around the world with us. Come and hear tales of animals and magic and learn the natural history of these myths and legends. The museum’s naturalist will bring out a live animal during each story. This presentation is a big hit for both children and adults. This program is free, but donations will be gratefully accepted. Coffee and doughnuts will also be served. Buy a ticket and ride the Single Chair to view the foliage after the presentation. To learn more and register for the event, please go here.

Green & Gold Weekend
2023-09-30 10:00 - 14:30
Foliage lift rides are available on America’s favorite Single Chair both Saturday and Sunday, first chair up is at 10 AM and the last chair is loaded at 2:30 PM. Foliage lift ride tickets are good for a round trip from base to summit and back down again, the cost is $20 for adults and $15 for juniors and seniors (free for season pass holders). Foliage lift ride tickets can be purchased in person at the ticket window. Stark’s Pub, the General Store and Ticket Booth will all be open, please see our operational hours listed below.
Stark’s Pub Hours: Lunch & Dinner 11:00 AM – 8:30 PM (Dinner service begins at 4:30)
Lift Operation Hours: 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM
General Store: 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Ticket Office: 9:30 AM – 3:00 PM
Saturday, September 30th events:
SMF Presents “Wildlife Tails” 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM (3rd floor)
MRG Homeowner’s Meeting 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM (3rd floor)
Co-op Shareholder’s Town Meeting 5:00 – 6:00 PM (3rd floor and via Zoom)
*September 30th also marks the fiscal year for the Co-op, APR is due and Mad Money from the previous season expires. 2023 Mad Money will not be valid on Sunday, October 1st 2023.

Talking Hands Theatre Puppet Show
2023-09-30 10:30 - 12:30 | Living Tree Alliance, 96 Living Tree Ln, Moretown, VT, 05660, United States
Stories come alive with Anna Sobel’s Talking Hands Theatre Puppet Show. It’s fun for all ages and a classic event at Living Tree Alliance.

Sukkot Shabbat Services with Living Tree Alliance
2023-09-30 10:30 - 12:30 | Living Tree Alliance, 96 Living Tree Ln, Moretown, VT, 05660, United States
Celebrate the intersection of Sukkot and Shabbat with Living Tree Alliance. Our outdoor service is full of music, introspection, and celebrating impermanence and the harvest. Services will be led by local rabbi Jan Salzman.

Stretch & Sip
2023-09-30 11:00 - 12:30 | The Featherbed Inn, Waitsfield, VT, 5864 Main St, Waitsfield, VT, 05673, United States
Make the most of your Saturday with a fun and refreshing outdoor experience incorporating gentle, yoga-based movement at a mindful pace, plus tea (iced or hot) and scones, and a dip in the pond if it pleases. Join Karen of Salt & Sand Studios and Karen & Mick of the Featherbed Inn for this unique, al fresco, weekly seasonal event in a gorgeous landscape.
For locals, visitors, 16 YO and up who’d like to start winding down their day with gentle mindful yoga-based movement followed by refreshments and connection with like-minded people.
If you prefer something other than tea to drink please feel free to BYO. Bring a swimsuit or swim in your yoga clothes for extra refreshment.
Bring a mat or towel on which to practice.
Sunscreen and bug spray is recommended.

The 33rd Annual Green Mountain Photo Show – Weekend
2023-09-30 12:00 - 2023-10-01 21:00, 2023-10-01 12:00 - 2023-10-02 21:00 | Big Red Barn at Lareau Farm, 48 Lareau Road, Waitsfield, 05673
It would be a privilege to have you join our event and/or attend the reception.
At the The Red Barn Galleries at Lareau Farm – Route 100 – Waitsfield, Vermon
Show Hours
Thurs/ Fri – 4 to 9 pm
Sat/ Sun – noon to 9 pm
Reception: Sept. 10, 5-7pm

Live Music in the Lincoln Peak Courtyard
2023-09-30 13:00 - 16:00 | Lincoln Peak Courtyard, Warren, 05674, United States
Enjoy Live Music in the Lincoln Peak Courtyard with rotating musicians throughout the summer!

Puzzle Tournament!
2023-09-30 13:00 - 16:00 | Warren Public Library, 413 Main Street, Warren, 05674
Bring a team of 1-4 people to see who can be the first to assemble the 750-piece puzzle, “Fancy Cats Library Mischief.” Both adult and mixed-age teams are welcome. Distractions — uh, that is, refreshments — will be served. Please pre-register at warrenlibrary.com

Vermont,1800 and Froze to Death: The Cold Year of 1816, with Historian Howard Coffin
2023-09-30 14:00 - 15:30 | Moretown United Methodist Church, 962 Route 100B, Moretown, 05660
Vermont,1800 and Froze to Death: The Cold Year of 1816
1816 has long been known as the year without summer. Vermonters still call it “1800 and Froze to Death,” a year of frosts every month, dark skies, and mysterious lights that caused a widespread belief that a higher power was displeased. In this talk, historian Howard Coffin includes scores of anecdotes on the dark year of failed crops, scarce food, and religious revival.

Made in the Mountains
2023-09-30 16:00 - 17:30, 2023-10-01 16:00 - 17:30 | Corner School Resource Center of Granville Vermont, 75 Post Office Hill 75 Post Office Hill, Granville, Vermont, 05747, United States
Art Show Opening featuring local artists including Clare Walker Leslie, Johno Landsman, Samantha Sheehan, Phil Bobrow, Meg Reinhold and Clayton Anderson. Live music by Granville Daze and refreshments.

The 33rd Annual Green Mountain Photo Show
2023-09-30 16:00 - 2023-10-01 01:00 | Big Red Barn at Lareau Farm, 48 Lareau Road, Waitsfield, 05673

Valley Players Presents The Glass Menagerie
2023-09-30 19:00 - 21:00, 2023-10-01 14:00 - 16:00 | Valley Players Theater, 4254 Main Street, Route 100, Waitsfield, VT, 05673, United States
The Valley Players will present a classic of the American theater this fall. This hauntingly poetic play tells of a single mother and her two adult children struggling to get by in Depression-era St. Louis. Amanda Wingfield (Kitty Coyne, Waterbury), raised in Southern gentility and abandoned by her husband, now tries desperately to provide for her disabled daughter Laura (Lindsay Repka, Middlebury) and adventure-seeking son Tom (Matthew Grant Winston, Montpelier). The cast also includes Michael Smith (Cambridge, VT) as Jim, a high school acquaintance of Laura’s.
Shows: Sept. 29 – Oct. 15
Fridays and Saturdays at 7 pm – tickets $18
Sundays at 2 pm – $14

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Red Hot Juba Barn Dance Concert
2023-09-30 19:45 - 22:30 | Living Tree Alliance Barn Dance, 307 100 B Look for Signs, Moretown, Vermont, VT, United States
Harvest Barn Dance with Red Hot Juba Vermont’s Smokin’ Blues and Jazz Band
Come celebrate Living Tree Alliance’s fifth year providing farm to school programming to the Mad River Valley’s Schools.

Red Hot Juba Concert
2023-09-30 20:00 | Living Tree Alliance, 96 Living Tree Ln, Moretown, VT, 05660, United States
Come spend a night listening to live jazz and blues performed by local Vermont band, Red Hot Juba.

Allen Clark Hill Climb
2023-10-01 10:00 - 11:30
The Allen Clark Memorial Hill Climb — the annual grunt-fest that has fast become a rite of cycling passage in the Mad River Valley — is a grueling time trial that rises 1,600 vertical feet in 6.2 miles, from the intersection of Routes 100 and 17 to the top of Appalachian Gap.
The event is named in honor of long-time Mad River Valley resident, Allen Clark. An avid cyclist who took up biking late in life, he rode 2,500-3,000 annually in Vermont. Allen especially loved the challenge of the Appalachian Gap. This event is a tribute to Allen’s life and a fundraiser for Vermont Adaptive Ski & Sports, an organization that meant a great deal to him.
Awards will be held on the 3rd floor of the Basebox (or on the deck if the weather is nice) at approximately 11:30 – 12:00 PM.
Learn more about Allen Clark
Register for the race

10th Annual Harvest Festival at Living Tree Alliance
2023-10-01 10:00 - 12:00 | Living Tree Alliance, 96 Living Tree Ln, Moretown, VT, 05660, United States
Celebrate 10 years of Living Tree’s Harvest Festival! Enjoy a day full of farm stations like apple pressing, sauerkraut making, scavenger hunts, Gaga, and nature arts & crafts. Performances by LTA’s own Miss Andrea and her Musical Munchkins. Lunch available for purchase.

Green & Gold Weekend
2023-10-01 10:00 - 14:30
Foliage lift rides are available on America’s favorite Single Chair both Saturday and Sunday, first chair up is at 10 AM and the last chair is loaded at 2:30 PM. Foliage lift ride tickets are good for a round trip from base to summit and back down again, the cost is $20 for adults and $15 for juniors and seniors (free for season pass holders). Foliage lift ride tickets can be purchased in person at the ticket window. Stark’s Pub, the General Store and Ticket Booth will all be open, please see our operational hours listed below.
Stark’s Pub Hours: Brunch 10:00 AM – 12pm, Lunch & Chicken BBQ 12:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Lift Operation Hours: 10:00 AM – 2:30 PM
General Store: 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Ticket Office: 9:30 AM – 3:00 PM
Sunday, October 1st events:
Allen Clark Memorial Hill Climb at 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Allen Clark Hill Climb
2023-10-01 10:00 - 17:00 | Stark Mountain Bike Works, 9 Rotue 17, Waitsfield, VT, 05673
The Allen Clark Memorial Hill Climb — the annual grunt-fest that has fast become a rite of cycling passage in the Mad River Valley — is a grueling time trial that rises 1,600 vertical feet in 6.2 miles, from the intersection of Routes 100 and 17 to the top of Appalachian Gap.
Details:
Start — 10 AM, Stark Mountain Bike Works, Route 100 & Route 17, Waitsfield, VT
Finish — Top of Appalachian Gap

Length: 6.2 miles
Vertical climb: 1,600 feet
Race format: Time trial, 30-second intervals
8 age categories, from 15 and under to 70 and over.
Registration fees: Adults – $50, Kids – $30, $10 surcharge per entry for race day registration.

Best Times — Medals awarded to the top three men and women in age categories. Post-race shwag raffle.
New Records — A special prize of $100 cash will be awarded to any man or woman who can set a new course record. Current records: Phil Mason — 23:11.43, Marti Shea — 26:47.30.
Combined Events — Trophies will be awarded to the man and woman with the best combined times for the bike race and Saturday’s Stark Mountain Hill Climb footrace.

Musical Munchkins at Living Tree Alliance
2023-10-01 11:00 - 12:00 | Living Tree Alliance, 96 Living Tree Ln, Moretown, VT, 05660, United States
Join Living Tree Alliance during their 10th annual Harvest Festival for Musical Munchkins! Led by local musician Andrea Soberman, Musical Munchkins brings music and joy to young children encouraging them to participate, express their creativity, and move freely.

Summer Sundays: Bob Recupero
2023-10-01 15:00 - 17:00 | Lawson’s Finest Taproom, 155 Carroll Road, Waitsfield, Vermont, 05673
Music for your ears and soul.
