The N.C. Department of Transportation today announced the winners of the 20th annual Wildflower Awards. The awards recognized the efforts of NCDOT staff to carry out North Carolina’s wildflower program and enhance the overall appearance and environmental quality of the state’s highways. The awards are sponsored by The Garden Club of North Carolina Inc.
Latest effort from the local and the mighty Eco Avengers:
For those who feel there’s never anything going on in Wilmington, ‘tis the season. On behalf of the Grove Project, I’ve compiled an eclectic list of events from now till the New Year.
– These are the last weeks for both the Poplar Grove Farmers’ Market (Dec. 16 is the last day) and the Riverfront [...]
The farmers market downtown is in its last few weeks, so I thought I’d post some pictures of our visit to one of its vendors, the Jones Family Farm outside Burgaw, where we went for a hay ride closer to Halloween
We all get junk mail, but I actually enjoy going through mine from time to time. This one came in one of those coupon booklets and really caught my eye.
It’s an interesting concept — tobacco-free smoking that is legal in bars and restaurants, even after the ban begins Jan. 2. My biggest question about [...]
It’s 9am on a rainy Saturday morning. While most of Wilmington is sleeping in, sipping coffee, or recovering from last night, I have just jumped from a fenced-off loading dock into a puddle of water and now find myself with wet socks in the cellar of an abandoned shipping terminal on N. Front Street.
Dixon Stetler’s new public art project, Keys with a View, in its early stages:
[The plan is to] collect thousands of no-longer used keys and hang them onto the grid of the fence using paperclips.
‘Keys with a View’ is an opportunity for the community to engage in the production of public art. The public will be [...]
As a Hippocrates Health Educator, trained at the Hippocrates Health Institute (HHI) in all things green and healing, I lecture and consult on the HHI’s Life Change Program. Over the next few columns I will share with you the various components of this program. We will start with the cornerstone of HHI, wheatgrass juice; a now widely recognized health and red blood cell builder and restorative.
Dressed in a fairly conspicuous lumberjack outfit, sporting corduroy pants, a thick flannel shirt, and heavy leather boots, I’m sure I look out of place pacing up and down a deserted urban street plotting the best place to jump a fence and explore a derelict area of the Cape Fear River just for the hell of it.
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