A few weeks ago, I was visiting DC for work and was able to check out the United States Botanic Garden. The current structure is a result of an idea hatched by George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and James Madison back in 1820. Today, the Garden is committed to demonstrating the aesthetic, economic, cultural, therapeutic and ecological […]
For years I have been wanting to visit Sleepy Hollow, New York around Halloween. When I started planning the trip I found so many other awesome things to do and see in that part of the Hudson River Valley. I was thrilled to discover that the Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture was just 5 minutes away from Sleepy Hollow, […]
This wasn’t your typical cool sunny fall day of apple picking. It got up into the upper 80’s (!) a few weeks ago and I had to dig my sandals out of storage. But we were on the hunt to pick our own honeycrisp apples, and for the third year in a row – we just […]