On the heels of the successful farm-to-table movement, Outstanding in the Field's "restaurant without walls" brings the table to the farm.

Spending a Saturday in August swimming 10,000 laps in the waters of Lake Champlain—who other than the mythical Champ would do that? Quite a few people, it turns out—all participants in the Greater Burlington YMCA’s annual Lake Swim.

It's the nation's smallest state capital and, as far as we know, the only one without a McDonalds. But Montpelier is far from sleepy.