Passion is the flower show’s theme this year, an emotion we usually associate with red. But did you know that green is the new color for passion? It is, thanks to the community gardens sprouting up in suburbs, schools, senior centers, and downtown areas. A community garden is simply a piece of land tended by [...]
“The Good Things in Life” —that’s what Cakes & Ale means to chef/owner Billy Allin. And yum, yum, yum…. the food at Cakes & Ale is good indeed. This wonderful Decatur restaurant whips up its meals from scratch everyday, using the best and freshest vegetables in season from local stores. Their freshly-milled grains are artisan-produced; [...]
Gardens aren’t just for adults, and neither is the upcoming Southeastern Flower Show. Along with Joyce Revoir, creator of an award winning DVD/CD for kids, we are proud to present Athens, GA author Grady Thrasher. Just last year, Grady’s book, Tim and Sally’s Vegetable Garden, landed him the Georgia Author of the Year Award for [...]
Is this cold weather making you shiver? Sounds like you need some comfort food, the kind that warms the body and feeds the soul on a blustery winter’s day. When the flower show opens, you’ll hear from some fantastic chefs about how to prepare healthy, delicious meals with fruits and veggies from your own garden. [...]
Flower show fans, want to know more about Mike? Mike McGrath, that is, who’ll be speaking from the Home Depot stage on the opening day of the show. At 11 A.M. on Wed., Jan. 28, Mike will tell us all about his passion for organic gardening, and share “Seven Secrets of Successful Organic Gardeners.” Here’s [...]
The catalogs, that is. In January, my mailbox is stuffed with gardening offers, and today brought a fantastic catalog from Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. I’m still shaking my head at how expensive it must have been to produce and mail, because it’s oversized, with glossy, magazine-type pages. And it’s packed with so many intriguing flowers, [...]
Made any resolutions for 2009? My list includes the usual (eat less and exercise more), but I’m also thinking green this time around. When it comes to my next year’s garden, I resolve to: keep my indeterminate tomatoes staked as they grow, instead of waiting until they start to fall over. weed more often, so the [...]
Have you checked your mailbox lately? Mine is starting to fill up with new seed catalogs, and yesterday, I got one from Tomato Growers Supply Company, a mail order business that will celebrate 25 years in 2009. Tomato Growers, as you’d guess, specializes in tomatoes, and there are some delicious new varieties coming onto the [...]
It’s not everyday that you learn to make raspberry jam alongside the retired captain of a nuclear submarine, listening to Captain Nemo-like stories of the dark and briny deep—but I did. My chance came a couple of years ago, while on assignment for Delta Air Lines’ Sky Magazine. My editor wanted a story that combined travel and education, and [...]
No offense, but –leave your Lima beans at home when you visit the Southeastern Flower Show on opening day. Why? Because keynote speaker Mike McGrath, host of the nationally syndicated public radio show, ”You Bet Your Garden,” hates Lima beans with a passion, that’s why. Hey, we’re cool with that, Mike. After all, the theme for the 2009 show is passion, and that intense [...]