(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) I’ve lived in southwest Florida for more than 25 years, and home gardening has eluded me most of that time. But recently I’ve started vegetable gardening and learning about the types of plants that thrive in our sometimes…
Field Trip Fridays
Field Trip Friday – Blue Community Conference
(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!). If you haven’t yet visited Pine Avenue on Anna Maria Island, please add it to your list of must-see spots in Florida. It’s a lovely business district with 2-story, historic-looking buildings designed to honor the area’s history, and…
Field Trip Friday – New England Cranberry Bog
(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!). On my recent visit to Massachusetts, I simply had to visit a cranberry bog because it’s annual harvest time, and it’s a quintessential event in New England. My long-time pal Heather and I took a trip to A.D….
Field Trip Friday – Mazzaro Italian Market
(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!). I grew up in the Boston area, with easy access to great Italian food, especially in that infamous place called the North End, Boston’s “Little Italy.” So when a friend asked me last year if I knew about…
Field Trip Friday – 4 Bees Herb Farm
(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!). It’s a treat to get away from the “busy-ness” of our everyday lives, isn’t it? That’s exactly what I was thinking as I drove with my friend Robin on Fruitville Road, heading east from Sarasota, Florida. As we…
Field Trip Friday – Culverhouse Community Garden
(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!). Merriam-Webster defines a community as “a unified body of individuals,” and a garden as “a plot of ground where herbs, fruits, flowers, or vegetables are cultivated.” Pretty simplistic definitions of each, but when you blend the two, as…
Field Trip Friday – Mustang Flea Market
(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!). After 27 years in Florida, I still find interesting places. This time it was the Wagon Wheel Flea Market in Pinellas Park. Not just any flea market — this one has two distinct offerings. You’ll find plenty of…
Field Trip Friday – Smoked Mullet Festival
(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!). Florida offers so many big attractions, as well as, small backroads events that sometimes it’s hard to keep up. Figuring out what we’ll do each weekend is a fun project in our house because my husband and…
Field Trip Friday – Geraldson Community Farm
(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) Ever have a moment when you pinch yourself because you simply can’t believe what you’re doing? Maybe it’s something you always dreamed of (like meeting Bono), or you just nabbed the perfect job, or you found an amazing…
Field Trip Friday – Culinary Bookstore
(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) I adore reading food memoirs and old cookbooks — the older the better, for me. Spending time in dusty bookstores is one of my favorite things to do because you never know what you’ll find. Vintage cookbooks not…
Field Trip Friday – Lionfish Derby
(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) Be honest, the first time you saw this fish you probably thought it was just something for your exotic saltwater fish tank, right? I really didn’t know what to think when I saw Lionfish for the first time….
Field Trip Friday – Blueberry Picking
(Field Trip Fridays capture interesting, fun, food-related and/or fishing adventures that I like to share with you!) When I was a kid in Massachusetts, it was a summer tradition to pile into the car and go blueberry picking at a nearby farm. I’ll just say that it was a real fashion parade – slathered in…