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Cabot Arts announces the first annual,

Cabot Cheese and Culture Festival

"Come for the Cheese, Stay for the Culture!"

Featuring Vermont Cheesemakers and Producers of Cultured Foods and Beverages

Saturday, September 30th, 2023 - 12-5pm

On Saturday, September 30th, from 12pm-5pm, Cabot Arts will host the inaugural Cabot Cheese and Culture Festival on the Village Common in historic Cabot, Vermont. 
 
In this inaugural year, the festival will be offered free of charge to all participants!
 
The Cheese and Culture Festival brings together Vermont cheesemakers, producers of cultured and fermented foods, chefs, brewers, cider, wine, mead makers and turophiles, for a day of tasting, education and celebration. 
 
Headwaters Restaurant and The Den at Harry’s Hardware will offer cheese and beverage pairings and special menus for the occasion.
 
The Cheese and Culture Festival will occur alongside Cabot’s annual Fall Foliage Festival which will add pop-up crafts markets, food trucks, farm and leaf-peeping tours, pumpkin carvings, wagon rides, and children’s activities to the celebratory atmosphere.
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We're looking for a few volunteers to help set up and clean up the Village Common for the Festival!
Confirmed Vendors
Cheese Producers
  • The Cabot Creamery
  • Jasper Hill Farm  
  • Shelburne Farms
  • Ice House Farm 
  • North Meadows Farm
  • West Hill Creamery
  • Bridport Creamery 
​Plus!
  • Hook and Peel (Food Truck/Pizza)
  • The Melted Cheeserie (Food Truck)
  • The Hollowed Knot Woodshop
  • Dusty Swamp Provisions
  • Monte Verdi Salumi (Cured Meats)
  • Littlen & Co. Coffee
Fermented Producers
  • Fragrant Mountain Farm (Kimchee)
  • Flack Family Farm  (Krauts &Kimchi)
  • Rhapsody Foods (Miso & Tempe)
  • KIS Kombucha  (Kombucha)
  • Citizen Cider
  • Shacksbury Cider
  • Snow Farm Vineyard (Wine)
  • vonTrapp Brewery (Beer)
  • Olde Merle's Mead
  • St. Johnsbury Distillery (spirits)
  • Red Barn Brewing (beer) 
  • HeyDay Farm and Bakery (Bread)
  • Bontè Bakery (non-Gluten Bread)

Festival Schedule

 

12:00 - FESTIVAL BEGINS!

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12:30 - KRAUT MOB! with Brian Lyman make some sauerkraut for yourself to take home!

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1:30 - MISO MAKING Demonstration with Rhapsody Foods

2:00 - CHEESE MAKING 101 with Brian Lyman

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2:30 - Author & SPEAKER: PAUL KINDSTEDT

     “What’s so special about Vermont Cheese!” 

 

3:00 - Cheese, Beer & Cider Pairing              
AT THE DEN at Harry’s Hardware - LIMITED SEATING. 

Pre-SIGN UP AT THE WELCOME GATE

 

3:50 - Cheese & Wine Pairing                 
4:20 - Cheese & Spirits Pairing

AT HEADWATERS RESTAURANT - LIMITED SEATING

Pre-SIGN UP AT THE WELCOME GATE

 

4:00-6PM LIVE MUSIC WITH LES DEAD RINGERS

Also Featuring 

Wagon Rides

and 

Live Music with Les Dead Ringers!
 

Festival Venues

 

Cabot Village Common

Producers Market for vendors booths.

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Marquee Tent on the Common

Panel discussions, demonstrations, and live music.

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Headwaters Restaurant

Cabot’s new fine-dining restaurant to host cheese, wine, food parings.

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The Den at Harry’s Hardware

Cabot’s pub in a hardware store will present, beer, cider and mead pairings. 

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