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- Home & Garden Calendar - Chattanooga Times Free Press
- Madison Square Garden - Hartford Courant
- Home garden project in East - Sunday Observer
- Fall home tours - Inside Bay Area
- Gardeners prepare for fall crops - Daily Sentinel
| Home & Garden Calendar - Chattanooga Times Free Press Posted: 25 Sep 2009 08:54 PM PDT THIS WEEK * TODAY: Easy one-hour walk in the Abbott Cotton Martin Ravine Garden, Abbo's Alley, with Sewanee Herbarium members. Meet at 7:45 a.m. CDT on Quadrangle next to All Saints Chapel on the University of the South campus. Contact: marypriestley@bellsouth.net. LOOKING AHEAD * OCT. 3: Chattanooga Hosta Society's monthly meeting features a variety of topics relating to hostas, 1 p.m. at East Ridge Community Center. Visitors welcome. Contact: Shirley McMasters, 344-5876. * OCT. 3: Join forces with more than 1,000 volunteers for 21st annual Tennessee River Rescue, picking up trash along the riverbank from Cleveland to Shellmound Campground in Marion County. 785-4177, www.tennesseeriverrescue.com. * OCT. 3: Sewanee's premier naturalists, the Yeatmans, lead a stroll around Lake Eve near their home on Eva Road to look for late fall wildflowers. Meet at 9:45 a.m. CDT at Sewanee Market, 28 Lake McDonald Road, to carpool or caravan to the Yeatmans' property. * OCT. 11: Sewanee Herbarium celebrates its 50th year with a Jubilee Jamboree. Activities include a 3-mile hike at 10 a.m. CDT (meet at the Grundy Forest picnic shelter); a birthday party hosted by Sewanee Natural History Society at 4 p.m. CDT in the Harris Commons at Spencer Hall; and "An Evening With John Muir" at 7 p.m. CDT in Gailor Auditorium. Contact: marypriestley@bellsouth.net. * OCT. 31: Chattanooga watercolorist Margaret Patten Smith will lead a workshop 9:30 a.m.-noon CDT, teaching students of all abilities how to paint autumn landscapes or still lifes in watercolors. Bring your own paints, and meet in the herbarium on the first floor of Spencer Hall. Free, but space is limited. Reservations required. Contact: marypriestley@bellsouth.net. TO BE INCLUDED Submit calendar items to Anne Braly at abraly@timesfreepress.com (757-6285) or Karen Nazor Hill at khill@timesfreepress.com (757-6396). Deadline is the Tuesday before the calendar appears in the Saturday newspaper.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Madison Square Garden - Hartford Courant Posted: 25 Sep 2009 03:03 PM PDT Recipient E-mail Addresses (up to 3, separated by commas) Send me a copy.From:
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| Home garden project in East - Sunday Observer Posted: 19 Sep 2009 12:18 PM PDT Home garden project in EastThe Ministry of Nation Building in collaboration with the Eastern Provincial Council will launch a pilot project to grow chillies, green gram, soya, onions, kurakkan and undu in home gardens in the Eastern Province, said Minister of Nation Building Susantha Punchinilame. The program would be started during the next Maha Season with the participation of 30,000 families. According to Minister Punchinilame, the Ministry of Agriculture and the Samurdhi Authority would assist the Ministry of Nation Building in this project and provide seeds and organic fertiliser and also assist in land preparation for cultivation if necessary. Each family would be given eight country hens and two cockerels to encourage the backyard poultry industry which would enable farmers' families to improve their nutrition level. According to the Minister, this cultivation project would help farmers' families in the East as well as in other parts of the country to reduce imports of agricultural produce in the future, as suggested in the 2009 Budget.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Fall home tours - Inside Bay Area Posted: 25 Sep 2009 01:58 PM PDT      IF YOU MISSED OUT on all the spring and summer garden tours, don't worry. Autumn means moving inside with the return of the home tours. You can find design inspiration in new homes, remodeled homes and historic homes from Martinez to San Jose. And even homes that float. Here's a guide to what lies ahead. — Linda Zavoral and Joan Morris Sausalito's 24th Annual Floating Homes Tour When: 11 a.m.-4 p.m. today Sponsor: Floating Homes Association in benefit of the Friends of the Marin City Library and the Family Service Agency of Southern Marin The homes: The self-guided tour takes visitors inside 20 of the most unusual homes in the world. Six homes on the tour this year have never been featured on the tour. Look for the Archangel X, a soaring A-frame "temple of light;" Monkey Sea, a fun house brimming with fanciful art; and an end-of-the-dock home with slanting walls, trapezoidal windows and fascinating contours. Extras: The tour starts at the Kappas Marina on Gate 6 Road, off Bridgeway Street at the northern end of Sausalito. Free entertainment takes place throughout the day on Kappas Green; food and drinks will be available for purchase. How much: $35 Information: 415-332-1916, www.floatinghomes.orgAlameda Legacy Home Tour When: 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday Sponsor: Alameda Architectural Preservation Society, Alameda Museum and Little House Cafe The homes: This annual tour features six homes — four Victorians, one Storybook and one Craftsman. The homes offer examples of finished woods, detailed millwork, decorative scallop shingles, meticulous period paint and some interesting collections displayed by their owners. Extras: Look for a 300-piece cocktail shaker collection, an extensive Mickey Mouse collection and original pastel artwork by famed Alameda artist Edwin Siegfried. How much: $25; tickets will be on sale in Franklin ParkMartinez Home Tour When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Oct. 10 Sponsor: Martinez Historical Society, with proceeds going toward renovation of the 1877 train depot. The homes: Victorian, Tudor Revival, Mission Revival and Arts and Crafts styles are represented on this tour of seven historic homes. Highlights include naturalist John Muir's 1882 Italianate Victorian, including parts not normally open to the public; a 1904 Victorian that was reportedly home to one of San Francisco's first female impersonators; and an art-filled 1898 Victorian. Extras: Guests will be shuttled to homes from the Martinez Museum, 1005 Escobar St., where there will be costumed docents, music, antique cars and refreshments. On Oct. 4 a preview reception ($50) will take place at a country manor-style home in the Alhambra Valley region of Martinez. How much: $25 ($20 in advance) Information: 925-228-8951, www.martinezhometour.comRose Garden Homes Tour When: 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Oct. 17-18 Sponsor: Benefits St. Martin of Tours School. The homes: Four eclectic homes in San Jose's Rose Garden neighborhood. The 1938 Mediterranean home showcases both original wrought-iron work and an autographed rock 'n' roll guitar collection. Look for a tiki bar at the Monterey Colonial. Asian design rules at the 1941 Classic Ranch home once owned by the Langendorf bread family. The fourth home is a 5,500-square-foot Cape Cod, built in 1940. Extras: After the tour, guests will rendezvous in the gardens of a fifth home — a yoga enthusiast's retreat with a meditation labyrinth — for tea and a boutique; a boxed lunch may be ordered in advance. How much: $30 in advance, $35 day of event at the Municipal Rose Garden, where the tour starts. Information: 408-287-3630, www.rosegardenhomestour.com.Los Gatos Historic Homes Tour When: 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Nov. 7-8 Sponsor: Museums of Los Gatos, a benefit for the history and art museums. The homes: Seven homes in the town of Los Gatos, all within walking distance of each other. Highlights include a 1910 Craftsman-meets-Hawaiian-style plantation home built as a summer getaway by a San Francisco couple; an 1884 Victorian that is set on 20 acres with a pond, barn and picnic grounds; and a 1999 French-style home designed to reflect the owners' love of Provence. Extras: Look for vintage cars outside some of the homes and live music inside. A boutique will run both days at 35 Palm Ave. How much: $35. Buy in advance via the Web site or at either museum; the day of the event, purchase tickets at homes on the tour or at the art museum, 4 Tait Ave. Information: 408-395-7386, www.museumsoflosgatos.org. This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
| Gardeners prepare for fall crops - Daily Sentinel Posted: 25 Sep 2009 08:18 PM PDT Dr. Caroll Gregory can be seen most afternoons among his rows of turnips, radishes and peas. A home gardener whose interest in growing vegetables began at an early age, Gregory grows most of the produce he and his wife eat. "It's not the savings I'm interested in," he said recently, referring to why he chooses to grow rather than purchase produce at the grocery store, "but more the healthy aspect of the food." Gregory, who lived for many years in California, grows everything from beets and potatoes to lettuce, and said over the years he's finally gotten the Texas growing seasons down pat. "It has taken me a long time to figure out when you have to plant potatoes," he said. "Here you have to plant them in early January, and lettuce, I try to do that the last of November or early December." Currently, Gregory, like many other local residents who have home-grown vegetable gardens, are gearing up for the fall growing season. "I'll be planting turnips and greens, and weeding out my asparagus so it'll have a good head start to the spring," he said. Likewise, fellow gardener, Gregory Lide, who operates the community supported agricultural program Sacred Springs Organic Farm, said his fall corn will be ready in a few days, and he has several varieties of squash, pumpkins and peas that will come up this fall. In its third year of operation, the Sacred Springs Organic Farm supports 45 members (made up mainly of couples and families) who pay a flat amount for three months of produce from the garden. Lide said produce is picked on Fridays and then brought to the local farmer's market on Saturdays for distribution. "We've got a pamphlet (at the market) and they fill it out with their information and write us a check for three months of produce and then come to the farmer's market each Saturday to pick up their produce," he said. Lide said when the community program first started, members each worked at least one day in the garden, although that's no longer required. "Some members still come out to the farm and work," he said. "Some of these people are home gardeners who have decided to kind of throw in with us because we do three acres, and instead of 50 people with 50 tractors, we all have one tractor and we share it." Lide said many members have said since they joined the community program, the trips to the grocery store have become less frequent. "With the exception of having to go to the store for milk or meat, a lot of our members say they don't have to go to the store that much anymore," he said. Gregory, likewise, estimates he saves money by growing his own produce. "An offhand estimate would be about 20 percent," he said, calculating the difference in what he would spend at a grocery store. He said while he also sells some things from his garden at the farmer's market, the vegetable garden is just for him and his wife to enjoy healthy meals at home.  This posting includes an audio/video/photo media file: Download Now |
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