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As Spring rolls in, areas all around Virginia are celebrating with outdoor food, wine, beer, and music festivals. This month is packed full of foodie activities for everyone to enjoy, so get outside and start eating! 

Events are back, baby! May has got a lot going on. It’s National Salad Month, National Barbecue Month, and National Strawberry Month. Whew! It’s also got Cinco de Mayo, National Wine Day, and Memorial Day. As the weather gets warmer, foodies all over the Commonwealth are itching to get out and enjoy good food and drink with friends and family. Outdoor events are slowly coming back and the CDC has recently updated recommendations for outdoor gatherings for vaccinated and unvaccinated people which is great news for folks looking to safely celebrate the season.

You may not know it, but 2020 is a banner year for Virginia Spirits. It commemorates 400 years of distilling in Virginia. No, that’s not a typo. The first recorded distillery was founded in 1620 in Southampton, Virginia. George Thorpe stated in a letter to The Virginia Company that he made a “goode drinke of Indian corne,” aka WHISKEY! What better way to celebrate that heritage than with a boozy celebration of one of Virginia’s oldest and proudest industries? Enter Virginia Spirits Month!

Hey foodies! Fellow foodie Nomarama has a new video series for all local food lovers, so obviously, we had to share the news! It’s called Just Dropping In, and the first episode just dropped. Tune in every other Sunday for a new episode. In the meantime, you can find more foodie videos on their Youtube channel.