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Field Trip Friday – Asheville, NC

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(Field Trip Fridays are interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures I like to share with you!) My husband and I recently spent a few days in Asheville, North Carolina. . .a much-needed escape from Florida. Summer in western NC is beautiful, with its abundance of farmers markets, scenery and outdoor events. We stayed in downtown Asheville, a…

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Field Trip Friday – Nokomis Beach

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(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you.) Today marks 30 consecutive mornings of beach swims at Nokomis Beach!  My hubby and I started this effort to shake up our daily routine, and found ourselves swimming in all sorts of conditions, having tons of fun, and thankful…

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Field Trip Friday – Planet Claire Farmacy

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(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) Walking through a forest is magical, isn’t it?  It’s teeming with life; the trees providing oxygen and shade, and ground cover housing thousands of creatures and habitats. But have you ever seen a ‘food forest’?   It’s similar to a nature-made forest,…

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Field Trip Friday – Dakin Dairy Farms

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(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) I grew up in a New England town with a dairy farm that opened 100 years ago and still provides fresh products to the community, including ice cream.  When I lived there, I stopped in whenever I drove by,…

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Field Trip Friday – Dooley Groves

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(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) I recently drove up to Ruskin to visit a little piece of Florida’s history. . . Just south of Tampa/St. Petersburg is a family citrus business called Dooley Groves.  It has been run by the Houghtaling family since 1967,…

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Field Trip Friday – The Coudal Studio!

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Today’s Field Trip takes me to my own creative studio, where my husband and I work with our dog Libby, and our cat LuLu. Sometimes it’s easy for us to get caught up in day-to-day dramas/work tasks and lose sight of the big picture of what’s really happening within our four walls.  So, this week,…

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Field Trip Friday – Boston!

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(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) I recently traveled to Boston for my college’s homecoming events.  While there, I soaked up fall scenery, visited special people I haven’t seen in ages and, of course, enjoyed delicious food.  I grew up in southern Massachusetts, and though…

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Field Trip Friday – Westport to Westport (Part 1)

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(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) I’ve heard that road trips are good for the soul, and I believe that’s true. My hubby and I recently packed up the car, the dog, and (what seemed like) everything we own, to do what Julia Cameron calls ‘filling…

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Field Trip Friday – Sunshine Community Compost

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(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) Garbage.  Refuse.  Debris.  Rubbish.  Scraps.  Lots of words for stuff we don’t want anymore. . . But the one I’m focusing on today is scraps.  Kitchen scraps, to be exact – the magical stuff used for compost, also known as…

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