How to Grow Microgreens
Beautiful, delicious, and nutritious, microgreens are an important part of the Swift House Inn culinary experience. This is how to grow microgreens. Read More
Author Archives: Serena Kim
5 Tasks for Winterizing the Inn
We realized that we had a load of tasks to prepare for Thanksgiving, Christmas festivities, and all of Vermont’s winter wonderland activities. Here are the seven tasks that we have to do to get the inn ready for the deep freeze. Read More
A Server’s School Application Essay
Amelia Quesnel was recruited to play D1 hockey for Kents Hills in Maine. Middlebury Union High School student Amelia Quesnel was one of the most hardworking, intelligent, and capable young people to come through our doors. Guests were charmed by her quick sense of humor and her gift of… Read More
How We Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Buffet
A few months ago, we switched to a breakfast buffet to better serve guests’ needs and to solve a number of problems, particularly staffing. Everybody knows that labor shortages are hitting restaurants and hotels particularly hard during this post-Covid era. Swift House Inn is no exception, so we put our… Read More
How to Landscape a Terrace Garden
It was our dream to transform our wild, poison ivy and myrtle entangled slope into a terraced hillside garden. Although the weedy, disorganized mass of plants growing on the existing hillside were great for attracting pollinators and creating a refuge for wild life, it was a lost opportunity for… Read More
So Happy and Excited We Won a Prestigious Food Award!
On July 31 at the Shelburne Farms, Vermont Fresh Network awarded the team of Jessica’s at Swift House Inn as the Best Bite of 2022. The attendees voted yes to the succulent slices of venison carpaccio folded on a bruschetta, squiggled with horseradish creme fraiche, adorned… Read More
The Journey to Swift House Inn’s New Road Sign on VT Route 7
It’s a sign of the times! In January 2022, Swift House Inn got a new road sign on VT Route 7 featuring our fierce new swift bird logo. For the first time ever, the road sign will be perpendicular to the street instead of parallel with it. This means that… Read More
A Walk in the Woods While Reading Poems
It was the perfect day for a meditative stroll in the woods: Reading poems and enjoying the winter landscape. My sister, Mirena, and her friend, Shawn, were visiting us for the holidays. We weren’t ready for a full day of skiing and snowmobiling. We had something quieter and… Read More
7 Vegetable Seeds We Want to Plant This Spring
It’s now January, and it’s way too cold to garden. The highs are in the single digits. And so we stay cozy inside, brew a cup of tea, warm up a muffin, and get out the gardening books for inspiration. We like American Grown: The Story of the White… Read More
5 Things We Learned at the NEIRA Conference in Cape Cod
It’s a tough labor market in the hospitality industry, as many former hotel and restaurant workers have decided that they don’t want to come back to this line of work after the COVID-19 pandemic. So we needed advice, quick! From November 3 – November 5, Chatham Bars Inn in Cape… Read More
Happy 150th Birthday, Jessica Swift!
Jessica Swift seated second from left at the Bicentennial Picnic, Middlebury, Village Green 1976. Collection of the Henry Sheldon Museum, Middlebury, Vermont September 17, 2021 is the 150th birthday of Anna Jessica Stewart Swift who lived in the Main House of the inn for most of her 110 years. Read More
7 local Vermont businesses that helped make our wedding beautiful.
These 7 Vermont businesses helped make Serena Kim and Matthew Robinson’s wedding beautiful. The new owners and operators of Swift House Inn were married on July 3, 2021 by Dr. Bethany Marshall in Middlebury, Vermont. They purchased in the inn in the midst of the pandemic on September 23,… Read More