Ask any Vermonter to tell you something unique about our state and undoubtedly you will get an earful. State pride runs deep in the Green Mountains and starts early with the education of children about the importance of place. Your doing business with us allows us to support an exceptional program that celebrates the beauty of this particular place.
Each spring after a hard winter, the sound of peepers reminds us there is hope ahead in the form of warm days and shrinking snow banks. With this, though, often comes the appearance of roadside litter that has been hidden all winter. Luckily, there’s Green Up Vermont Day.
Vermont was the first to designate a day to clean up the entire state. Started in 1970 by Governor Deane C. Davis, this tradition continues, with thousands of Vermonters getting out on the first Saturday in May to pick up our roadsides. It’s spring cleaning on a massive scale.
In a way, I grew up with Green Up. I remember walking the back roads of my town as a youngster and the valuable impression this left on me to care for my community and its land. We are proud of this excellent program and share this pride by being one of Green Up’s lead supporters.
We hope you come visit our state soon, and when you do please slow down and notice our clean roadsides, absence of billboards, and truly distinct way of life. Then carry this message home with you; we teach the children today what they will do tomorrow.
~Eliot Orton, for The Orton Family, Proprietors
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