Posted in farmer/grower, locavore, media, tagged edible gardens, Gabriele Marewski, Miami Herald, Paradise Farms on October 6, 2009|
The trend of people growing veggies in their yards is really taking off. Several experienced gardeners were interviewed in a recent article in The Miami Herald. Redland Organics grower Gabriele Marewski, of Paradise Farms, is one of the featured growers.
The article was published on Sunday Oct. 4th in the Home and Design section. You can read it online.
Posted in artist, farm, media, photo, tagged art, native plants, photography on September 22, 2009|
If you’ve been browsing through this blog, you know that I like to take photos at Bee Heaven Farm. In fact, I’ve taken lots and lots of photos there over the last few years. So I’m really happy that two photos of native plants growing at Bee Heaven were accepted into the juried art show, COMMON ROOTS. Come see my “Beautyberry” and “Firebush,” and other beautiful works of art by local artists!
The show isn’t up for very long — it runs Oct 5-10, and the opening reception is on Tuesday Oct. 6th from 7-9 pm at the Miami Beach Botanical Garden. If you’ve never been to the garden, you’re missing out on a real treat. It’s a cosy, quiet, green oasis full of plants and sculpture just across the street from the Miami Beach Convention Center.
From the press release:
The COMMON ROOTS art exhibit is all about native plants and how they can build bridges between different cultures! The exhibit presents paintings, weavings, sculpture and photography of local artists who share the ‘Common Roots’ not only of the plants, but of the cultural stories and use of the plants for enjoyment, decoration, building materials, utensils, adornments, foods, medicines, and more.
The Arts at St Johns, in collaboration with the Miami Beach Botanical Garden, hosts this diverse exhibit that depicts the diversity of native and traditional plants coming from the Caribbean region, including South Florida.
The Curators are Winsome Bolt and Debra Cortese (visual artists) and Carol Hoffman-Guzman (visual artist and project anthropologist). The Project Botanist is Steven Woodmansee, who was born in Miami and has extensive knowledge of the ethnobotany of the Americas.
Oct 7, Wed. 10-12 am – Talk on local native plants, with Steve Woodmansee.
Oct 10, Sat., 10-12 am – Talk about Coastal Native Plants, with Steve Woodmansee.
COMMON ROOTS on Facebook (My images are the first two on page 3 of the Wall.)
For More Information, Contact Arts at St. Johns
email: artsatstjohns@bellsouth.net
phone: 305-613-2325
Posted in food, location, media, tagged joel Salatin, Melissa Contreras, Michael Pollan, movie, Urban Oasis Project, Will Allen on September 9, 2009|
If you missed seeing FRESH the Movie at last month’s screening up in Broward, you have another chance. The good folks at the Urban Oasis Project are showing FRESH at their September meeting. Also on the agenda is a potluck dinner and a garden tour. The screening/meeting is on Saturday, September 12th. For more details — including how to RSVP — go to the Urban Oasis project website.
Posted in farmer/grower, media, people, tagged Gabriele Marewski, Hani Khouri, Jaideep Hardikar, Margie Pikarsky on August 31, 2009|
The spread in Sunday's Outlook section
Did you happen to see the article about local farmers in Sunday’s Sun Sentinel? Margie Pikarsky, Hani Khouri and Gabrielle Marewski, among others, were interviewed by Jaideep Hardikar, a journalist from Nagpur, a city in central India. His beat is rural India and agriculture. Jaideep is here in South Florida finishing up a six month fellowship through the Alfred Friendly Press Fellowship program. He is one of 10 fellows selected this year to work in American newspapers. He also met up with us at the Small Farms Conference earlier this month.
Note: Jaideep’s article The Farmers Among Us has been removed from the Sun-Sentinel online archive. Discovered that on Oct. 13, 2009.
Redland Rambles 