Orland Park Parkview Christian Church, 1100 Orland Parkway: Sisterhood evening from 6 to 8:30 p.m. May 8. The evening is designed for women to gather with friends, enjoy appetizers, engage in games and uplifting worship and hear an inspirational message from Amy Max. Doors open at 6 p.m. and the event begins at 7 p.m. Dessert…
When Raymond Blanc was a small child, he was mostly found in the family vegetable garden, where he was employed to sow, weed, harvest and, of course, dig. The productive, organic garden in the Franche-Comté region in eastern France had to feed the family of seven. “I used to bloody hate it – it was hard…
Have topiary, will travel. Ken Selody, of Atlock Farm, planned to be Texas-bound in April. “If I drove my van full of topiary through Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas,” Selody, who is based in New Jersey, asked on Instagram, “are there people or shops that would be interested in having me stop?” This is how the…
“Gratitude must smell, if it has a smell, of rain-soaked earth,” the late Guatemalan Nobel Prize-winning novelist Miguel Ángel Asturias once wrote. Asturias’ musings on gratitude remind me of my grandmother, who was born in 1912 in a farming village in the Carpathian Mountains forming the border between modern-day Slovakia and Poland. It was a country…
Tussie mussies are a sweet way to share garden flowers with someone special on May Day. May is Flower Month. What better compliment to a friend or loved one than giving a tussie mussie as a surprise expression of devotion on the first day of May, May Day? A fragrant tussie mussie in hues of…
New Ulm Community Garden Treasurer Craig Sievert puts down stakes as the garden gets ready for the spring planting season. Sievert gardens himself, saying he enjoys the peaceful solitude it can bring. NEW ULM — For those in New Ulm with green thumbs, the Community Garden at 1915 South Valley Street is getting ready for…
The serious start of planting season and Mother’s Day go hand-in-hand, making gardening supplies, kits and books the perfect gifts to show Mom a little holiday love. Whether she’s an experienced gardener with an extra-green thumb who produces a prize-worthy bounty of vegetables each year or a novice who just dabbles in growing herbs on…
This is not a DIY, homemade potions, “this is the way my grannie did it” column. This is a “just because it was on TikTok doesn’t make it right,” “what was I thinking?” and “check the science first” column about some of the most popular gardening hacks on social media. Starting with one that’s been…
