Last Thursday evening Great Rivers Greenway threw a "street-party-meets-happy-hour" event at The Trestle, above, to introduce the public to the landmark structure. As the invitation said: "New York has the High Line, Paris has the Promenade Plantee, and soon St. Louis will have The Trestle, making us the third city in the world to incorporate…
Category: Food and Drink
Fresh produce to your door
There is a charming new face on the local farming scene. Kristen Southworth, above, has been growing produce 80 miles south of St. Louis in Campbell Hill (near Shiloh Hill), Illinois, population 300, and she wants to share it with you. Kristen, a graduate of Burroughs who grew up in Ladue, had been visiting the…
Grand scale gardening in a CWE backyard
When I ran into Judy Matthews at a recent neighborhood event, she suggested that I might want to come photograph the vegetable garden she and her husband, Wistar Holt, have created in their CWE backyard. I jumped at the chance because I have been so interested in the current gardening trend of growing vegetables wherever…