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 […]
New England
Stone Barns Center for Food and Agriculture
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, […]
Apple picking at Rocky Brook Orchards
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 […]