Abbey Duke Email & Phone Number

Serving Burlington residents of Chittenden-17 in the State Legislature.

South Burlington, Vermont

I founded Sugarsnap in 2003 as a small prepared foods retail store in Burlington, Vermont. Over the years, I have lead the business through adaptation and growth. In 2024, we are now the leading off-premise catering company in northern Vermont with two exclusive venues several hundred events over the year, including weddings, corporate events and more.

Burlington, Vermont

We have hosted three young entrepreneurs from Suriname, El Salvador and Paraguay (respectiviely) at Sugarsnap for month-log fellowships. In addition, I traveled to Suriname for 2 weeks in 2019 for a reverse exchange.

Burlington, VT

I left Gardener's Supply and entered what I considered a self designed graduate program. My end goal was to open a business with a farm in the Intervale that sold the farm's end product. To this end, I attended business workshops, spent a season working for Golden Russet Farm (an organic vegetable farm in Shoreham, Vermont), spent a winter in Costa Rica.

Worked to integrate robust gardening content into all aspects of the company's communication. This included writing and editing customer success profiles, how-to garden features, e-mail newsletters and more. I was able to combine my love of plants and gardening with my journalism experience. But I wanted to get out of the office and build a business myself.

I reported and wrote stories for a daily newspaper. I primarily covered a "Towns" beat, meaning I was responsible for covering part of Chittenden County outside of Burlington. I wrote about a wide range of topics including local politics, higher education, crime, environmental issues and recreation. I learned how to organize myself, synthesize information.

Certificate, Entrepreneurship

B.A., Biology