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- Home & Garden Calendar - Chattanooga Times Free Press
- Our living room floor looked like a shopping bag garden - Hampton Roads Daily Press
- Urban garden, a singular success for CMU student - Pittsburgh Tribune Review
- GARDEN OF THE MONTH: LaFontaines win big - Abbotsford News
- GardenStone Creations Expands Into Pacific Northwest Décor And ... - PR Inside
| Home & Garden Calendar - Chattanooga Times Free Press Posted: 07 Aug 2009 08:54 PM PDT [fivefilters.org: unable to retrieve full-text content] * Tuesdays-Saturdays: Pick your own tomatoes at Crabtree Farms, 9 a.m.-1 p.m. Call ahead for harvest availability, 493-9155, ext. 14. * Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through August. Canoe the Chattahoochie River with naturalists from Chattahoochie ... This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Our living room floor looked like a shopping bag garden - Hampton Roads Daily Press Posted: 07 Aug 2009 09:37 PM PDT The roommate from Hell Copyright © 2009, Newport News, Va., Daily Press  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Urban garden, a singular success for CMU student - Pittsburgh Tribune Review Posted: 07 Aug 2009 08:54 PM PDT Jessica Jackson is pleased at the reaction her garden gets. The surprise could be expected, though. After all, it is made of 558 plastic bottles hung on a chain-link fence. "People will come by and say, 'Wow, I just got fruit from a fence,'" the Carnegie Mellon University senior says. "That is just what we are hoping to show." The site, along Forbes Avenue near the campus of Carnegie Mellon, is a vertical garden with which Jackson is showing how gardening can be done when space is missing. From zinnias to snapdragons, radishes to basil, it has some of the elements found in more horizontal spaces. It is a way of "greening the urban environment," says Carnegie Mellon art professor Bob Bingham, whose eco-art course helped inspire Jackson's work. Besides that, Jackson, 20, from Scarsdale, N.Y., is encouraging passers-by to take and use parts of the display. Some plants are there because they take a short time to mature, she explains, digging up a cherry bell radish, which grows in 35 days, The display also creates art in an unlikely setting, adds another professor, Joseph Mannino, who teaches a course for which this is a project. It is called Making Connections and aims at taking art into the community. Both courses look at art in a manner that is as different as Jackson's look at gardening. Both also provided her with a new dimension for her major, which is fine arts and creative writing. Bingham tries to steer art to a life in which it can be a useful part of the environment. He tries to use natural materials -- soil, trees, hillsides -- to create "art" that is made of the surroundings rather than "something that screams out 'this is art.'" In a similar way, Mannino is trying to make the connections for which the course is named by finding new homes for art, this time on a fence in front of a building the university is renovating. Jackson says when she had to come up with a project for Mannino's class, she was inspired by the White House garden of President and Michelle Obama and by reports she had heard about urban gardening. She said some urban schools, both here and in Scardale, had been looking into ways of using vertical space to grow vegetables, fruits and herbs. Jackson came up with the idea of using plastic bottles on the fence. She cut off the tops of the bottles and inverted them into the bottoms so the dirt doesn't go all the way to the bottom. That creates some space and a slight current of aeration. Besides giving the students a way of taking art to a new setting, Mannino says, the project is letting them deal with other kinds of connections, such as getting permission to use the fence. In this case, it was on property owned by the university, making it fairly easy, but any such project would have to deal with such reality, he points out. Jackson is going to take down the plants that won't grow in cooler weather, but already is planning on replacing them with those that will, such as some greens and lettuce. She also is examining using some other planting devices, such as gutters instead of bottles. "It has given me a way to use a lot of aspects of my thinking," she says.
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| GARDEN OF THE MONTH: LaFontaines win big - Abbotsford News Posted: 07 Aug 2009 10:25 AM PDT August's Garden of the Month was awarded to the winner of the Best Effort in All Categories for the Mission Communities in Bloom contest. They are Deborah and Al Lafontaine, who also won Best Vegetable Garden. Their organic garden has integrated the vegetables and flowers. For the public's enjoyment all the photos of the winning entries are available on the Mission CiB site at www.mission.ca/cinb and click on 2009 Photo Album. Tickets for the third annual Garden Party are available at Magnolia's on Main $25 per person. The party is at the Jack's beautiful Ferncliff garden home, 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. Thursday, Aug. 13. Live music, wine, appetizers, dessert, raffles and balloon prizes will also be available.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| GardenStone Creations Expands Into Pacific Northwest Décor And ... - PR Inside Posted: 07 Aug 2009 09:09 PM PDT 2009-08-08 06:11:28 - Stone engraving and garden décor company adds handmade, antique crafts to its selection
For Immediate Release This is an expected expansion for GardenStone Creations. Proprietor Kelly Tareski started the business not only to demonstrate the range of custom rock work her family of artisans could produce, but to showcase a range of crafts, especially those from the Pacific Northwest."We were already blessed with the ability to create high quality custom stone engravings for our customers," said Ms. Tareski, "but I've always envisioned GardenStone as about being more than stone engraving. I firmly believe that local artisans and businesses should support each other. I wanted to add more products that reflect these values." New products include locally sourced antiques, hand made bird houses and further afield, items by designer Mary Lake-Thompson. The expansion does not shift priority away from personalized stone engraving, which GardenStone Creations proudly exhibits around its store. Stones are engraved on site. For very large stone engraving jobs, stone waterfalls and other major projects, customers are encouraged to contact GardenStone's sister company, Spokane-area landscaping firm Cascading Creations (www.cascadingcreations.com). About GardenStone Creations Airway Heights, WA based GardenStone Creations (www.gardenstonecreations.com) specializes in stone engraving for indoor and outdoor décor. Founded as a division of Spokane-area landscaping company Cascading Creations, GardenStone has grown into its own business, offering high quality engraved garden stones and other garden decorations. Contact info@gardenstonecreations.com for more information about the company and its products.
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