Fair-Time Coloring and Decorating Contest
Bring this Sappy Bucket® scene to life! Two winners from each age group will get two passes to Addison County Fair & Field Days and a gift certificate to the fairgrounds sugarhouse, which can be picked up from the Addy Indy office July 28-August 3. All submissions will be displayed in the sugarhouse during the fair. Submit your entries by Sunday, July 26th. Winners will be notified by email on July 28th.
Thank you to the Little Pressroom for providing this sweet custom image to color! Sappy and Sappy Bucket are trademarks of Addison County Promotions / Little Pressroom. For Sappy Bucket® products, visit sappybucket.com
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ADDY INDY GARDEN GAME
It’s time to get growing!
Entering the Garden Game is easy:
- Grow any of these fruits and veggies anywhere in the greater Addison County area.
- Think you’ve got a colossal cucumber, a whopping watermelon, or a supersized squash? Bring it to the Addy Indy office at 58 Maple Street, Middlebury!
- We’ll measure it, snap a photo, and add it to the leaderboard.
- If your garden giant stays on top through the end of the growing season, you’ll win a prize!
Asparagus (length x circumference)
Monica Przyperhart, 16” x 4.25”
Beet (circumference)
Broccoli (diameter)
Cabbage (circumference)
Cantaloupe (circumference)
Carrot (length x circumference)
Cauliflower (diameter)
Corn (length x circumference)
Cucumber (length x circumference)
Edible Leafy Greens (length x width – leaf only)
Eggplant (circumference x circumference)
Fennel (length x circumference)
Green Bean (length)
Kohlrabi (circumference)
Leek (length x circumference)
Melon (circumference)
Onion (circumference)
Parsnip (circumference)
Pepper (circumference x circumference)
Potato (length x circumference)
Pumpkin (circumference x circumference)
Radish (circumference)
Rhubarb (stalk length)
Dorothy Hayes, 25.5″
Rutabaga (circumference)
Summer Squash (length x circumference)
Sunflower (diameter)
*Sweet Potato (length x circumference)
Tomato (circumference)
Turnip (circumference)
Winter Squash (length x circumference)
Zucchini (length x circumference)
*new category
So get planting, get growing, and get ready for some friendly garden bragging rights. May the biggest beet, largest leek, and mightiest melon win!
SPONSORED BY MIDDLEBURY AGWAY
June 6, 2026
Let the games begin!
We received our first two Garden Game entries of the season, and in an exciting turn of events, they happen to be not only in the same category but are also grown by neighbors!
Monica Przyperhart was the first to stop by with a hefty asparagus stalk measuring 16” L x 4.25” C. Laura Asermily’s entry followed: a towe
ring spear measuring 31.5” L x 2” C. Laura noted that her asparagus crop has been especially productive this year, allowing her to share with neighbors while engaging in a friendly competition with the Przyperharts.
Can you do the quick math to figure out which asparagus takes the lead? After a little number-crunching (and perhaps a calculator), the winner is… drumroll, please… Monica’s asparagus by a mere 5”! There must be something in that soil because these two entries were beautiful to behold (and eat!)
Will anyone be able to top Monica’s asparagus? Will a new contender sprout up next week? Stay tuned to find out!
Fun Fact: Asparagus has been enjoyed for thousands of years. According to legend, Emperor Augustus was so fond of the vegetable that he coined the phrase “faster than cooking asparagus” to describe doing something quickly. A recipe for cooking asparagus even appears in Apicius’s De re coquinaria, one of the oldest surviving collections of recipes, dating back to the 1st century A.D.
June 18, 2026
We’re off to the races!
We received one Garden Game entry this week, a rhubarb stalk from Dorothy Hayes measuring an impressive 25.5 inches long. It’s the first of its kind this season but it’s going to be a tough one to beat!
Dorothy says her rhubarb is destined for pies at the St. Stephen’s Peasant Market pie booth. Yum!
This warm weather is certainly giving local gardens a much-needed boost. What will you enter in next week’s Garden Game?
Fun Fact: Long before it became a pie favorite, rhubarb was prized as a medicinal plant in China for more than 2,000 years. It was so valuable that explorers like Marco Polo sought out its origins, and it was once traded alongside silk and precious gems. Now that sugar is easily accessible to tame its tartness, rhubarb is a bona fide baked good superstar.