Strolling of the Heifers

10/28/2023

10/16/2023

07/15/2023

Random Fact of the Day: From 2000 to 2019, the city of Brattleboro, Vermont hosted a cattle parade called the “Strolling of the Heifers”, a tongue-in-cheek rebuttal to (that was inspired by) Pamplona, Spain's running of the bulls.


Sources: Jeopardy!, WCAX, Winston Prouty, Brattleboro Community TV.

Image credit: Kevin O'Connor/VTDigger.

03/24/2023

A Wonderful story. Have a look:

Doris the cow pretends to be sleeping to get out of milking duty. CNN's Jeanne Moos reports.

01/16/2023

BRATTLEBORO — A cash infusion from the dissolution of the Strolling of the Heifers may be a small fraction of what is needed to bring as many as 300 units

01/06/2023

01/05/2023

12/31/2022

After two decades of cows on parade in downtown Brattleboro, the Strolling of the Heifers is a thing of the past. However, its legacy of connecting people to the food they eat lives on.

12/30/2022

The Brattleboro nonprofit, known for its annual parade before it was sidelined by the Covid-19 pandemic, will become a Montpelier-based “part think tank, part small farm accelerator.”

12/30/2022

BRATTLEBORO — There will be no more heifers strolling down Main Street, at least not as part of the annual Strolling of the Heifers parade.