It’s time to plant your fall vegetable garden! Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is once again holding its annual Edible Garden Festival this weekend, October 22 and 23, from 9:30 am to 4:30 pm. The gardening celebration will have ongoing lectures, cooking and gardening demonstrations, free yoga class in the mornings, a beer garden (it is [...]
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Edible Garden Festival 2011
Posted in agritourism, events, farmer/grower, food, tagged Fairchild Tropical Botanic Gardens on October 20, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Thighs and Pies
Posted in chef, events, farmer/grower, food, tagged Slow Food Miami on September 8, 2011 | 3 Comments »
Slow Food Miami Annual Pie Contest Saturday, September 10th at 12 noon 12:00 pm Enjoy a picnic lunch with Sustain Restaurant‘s famous fried chicken Sides and sweets by Whole Foods Market 1:00 pm Pie winners announced Followed by pie sale to benefit local school gardens Tickets: $35 Adult — $15 Child (5-15) ages 5 and [...]
Raise your voice!
Posted in events, farmer/grower, location, locavore, politics, tagged Agricultural Manager, Carlos Gimenez, Charles LaPradd, county commissioners, UF/IFAS Cooperative Extension on August 17, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
UPDATE: Mayor Gimenez is coming to Homestead to meet with the community! An additional Town Hall Meeting was recently scheduled for August 24, 2011 at 7:00 pm. The address is: William Dickinson Community Center, 1601 Krome Avenue, Homestead FL. By now you’ve already heard that the new Miami-Dade County Mayor, Carlos Gimenez, is cutting the county budget. [...]
Growers opposed to deep cuts
Posted in farmer/grower, location, media, politics, tagged Agricultural Manager, Extension, Farm Bureau, Miami Herald on July 25, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Proposed county budget would gut funding for agriculture By Christina Veiga cveiga@MiamiHerald.com There’s a long way between County Hall and the avocado groves of Redland, the rows of tomatoes in Homestead and the plant nurseries of deep South Miami-Dade. But more than miles seem to separate county government from the county’s $2.7 billion agriculture industry, [...]
For the love of lychees
Posted in farm, farmer/grower, fruits, locavore, photo, tagged Green Groves, lychee, Steven Green on June 11, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The lychees in this week’s summer fruit offering come from Green Groves, not too far from Bee Heaven Farm. Steven Green, the grower, invited me to see how lychees get picked. He had an order from Whole Foods, and hired a picking crew to help. If you were in Whole Foods last weekend or this [...]
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