Vermont has a lot of hidden and semi-hidden treasures. Stores that only carry one kind of hard-to-find item, schools that specialize in nearly-lost arts, and quirky community events are de riguer around these parts. We are lucky to live near one of these; “Pizza on Earth.” The owners of the Bingham Brook Farm in Charlotte converted an old tool shed into a ‘pizza cottage’ of sorts by constructing a brick oven capable of sustaining the 800 degrees necessary to fire pizza to Neapolitan standards. They are only open two days a week during the summer (1 during the winter) for about 4 hours at a time. They only throw two kinds of pies on any given day, all topped with organic ingredients from their farm (or others nearby). They offer only takeout service, but open up an area of their farm for al fresco dining on picnic tables or on the grass. It has become a Friday routine for us: pick up the kids, grab a bottle of wine, order a couple of thin little pizzas, and start our weekends off right watching the sun sink into the Adirondacks across the lake.
Here are a few shots I have taken in the last month or so of the kids running around the farm after noshing on supremely good pizza.
Not a bad setting for a Friday evening wind-down…
