Do you ever stand on the beach and gaze out over the water thinking, what is under there? Anyone? Well if you find yourself at Easton’s Beach in Newport, RI you can wonder no more! Save the Bay, an excellent local environmental nonprofit operates an Exploration Center just steps from the rolling waves. Save the Bay’s mission is […]
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Making Rose Hip Jam
I had just finished telling a friend that I’d heard you can make jam from the rose hips of the beach rose plant, Rosa rugosa when a fateful email newsletter arrived from the Goldenrod Foundation. “Do you want to join us at a remote field research station on a beach in Plymouth to make rose hip […]
Setting the Table with The Local Bouquet
As I said in my previous post, I have been following the Slow Flowers movement with great interest over the past year or so. One day I was reading the Field to Vase blog and was delighted to find out that there was a florist in my area who is championing the cause. The Local Bouquet is a […]