This year’s unusually early snows have been beautiful, but they sure put a damper on last weekend’s Small Business Saturday. Some hardy shoppers did get out despite the weather, but hopefully this Saturday’s Holiday on the Plaza and the first of 3 Window Walk events will offer more opportunities to support local businesses while enjoying…
Category: Urban Gardens
What’s popping up in their gardens?
An April visit to the CWE Farm On the occasion of the CWE Farm’s 15th anniversary, in mid-April, co-founder Arthur Culbert, above, returned from his new home in St. Augustine, Fl. to help New City School 4th graders with spring clean-up and vegetable planting. Culbert created the citizenship program for New City School which started…
An early Fall visit to Bell Community Garden
In late September, CWEnder Katie Heaney suggested I meet her at Bell Garden to see the community garden she and neighbor Amy Lewis had recently joined. Another CWEnder, Elana Grayem, has been a member of the garden for about 10 years. Though all three have backyards, there wasn’t enough sunlight to grow much of anything…