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Garden & Farm
Beautiful evening for sipping and sauntering
Chris Flood
2 years ago
With a nice breeze, low humidity, warm temperatures and clear skies, Delaware Botanic Gardens...
Milton Garden Club to exhibit at Tour 684 July 2
2 years ago
The Milton Garden Club and Kathryn's Treasures will both participate during Tour 684 from 3 to 7 p...
Delmarva Chicken Association awards four community...
2 years ago
Delmarva Chicken Association recently presented awards to four people – Rep. Andy Harris, Dr. Steve...
Easy ways to propagate woody shrubs and perennials
Michael Zajic
2 years ago
Now is an ideal time to propagate garden plants, especially woody types. Propagation is easy with...
Annual sunflowers have 5,000-year history
Paul Barbano
2 years ago
Americans seem to always seek new horizons, new adventures and new places to live. Why else would...
Mill Pond Garden to spotlight high summer color June 27
2 years ago
Mill Pond Garden will celebrate the high summer garden’s mainstays – hydrangeas, phlox and lilies...
Lewes in Bloom awards Beauty Spot for June
2 years ago
Lorna Dempsey is the Lewes in Bloom Beauty Spot Award winner for June. Her garden on Johnson Avenue...
Tackling Invasives in Your Backyard program set June 23
2 years ago
The Inland Bays Garden Center will present Tackling Invasives in Your Backyard, a mini program,...
Farm and garden tour raises $3,500 to fight food...
2 years ago
The 2021 Cape Farm and Garden Tour held June 5 raised $3,500 from ticket sales. Proceeds will go to...
Sussex farm family receives Delaware Secretary’s...
2 years ago
With COVID restrictions in place earlier this year, the annual presentation of the Secretary’s...
Brilliant orange Marmalade Skies rose is an easy-to...
Paul Barbano
2 years ago
Some of the most creative ideas come from kids. When most 3-year-olds draw a picture of their...
Cover crop cost-share applications due July 30
2 years ago
Applications for the Sussex Conservation District cover crop cost-share program will be accepted...
Milton Garden Club to host plant sale June 19
2 years ago
The Milton Garden Club will hold its annual plant sale during the rescheduled Horseshoe Crab and...
Manage mosquitoes and enjoy spending more time outdoors
Melinda Myers
2 years ago
Dine, play and enjoy your outdoor spaces more than ever this year by managing annoying and disease-...
Ag Lab traveling classroom to visit June 18 barbecue...
2 years ago
The Delaware Farm Bureau Foundation Ag Lab traveling classroom will be at the Delmarva Chicken...
Snail vine is a flower that even children can grow
Paul Barbano
2 years ago
They are the terror of the garden with the most teeth of any animal. Even though a snail’s mouth is...
Artists exhibit work at Inland Bays Garden Center
2 years ago
The Inland Bays Garden Center has announced its current exhibiting artists. Art is the perfect way...
Frozen Farmer hosts fundraising dinner for Sussex...
2 years ago
The Frozen Farmer on Evans Farm in Bridgeville entertained 150 guests at its May 22 farm-to-table...
Children’s Learning Garden activities return June 21
2 years ago
After a year’s hiatus due to the COVID virus, the Lewes in Bloom Children’s Learning Garden will...
East Coast Garden Center summer classes to start...
2 years ago
East Coast Garden Center announced its summer 2021 classes will be held in person from 9 to 10 a.m...
All tomatoes are classified as either determinate or...
Paul Barbano
2 years ago
A sucker can be a lollipop, a bottom-dwelling fish, or even a human. A person who is easily...
Freedom Boat Club sponsors Lewes in Bloom Lighthouse...
2 years ago
Freedom Boat Club is proud to be the sponsor for the Lighthouse Garden on Freeman Highway. This is...
June 5 visitors to see unusual plants at Mill Pond...
2 years ago
Mill Pond Garden is one of three venues featuring special and unusual plants in the Cape Farm and...
Lewes in Bloom awards first Beauty Spot of 2021
2 years ago
Lewes in Bloom recently presented its first Beauty Spot award for the season. The Bay Ridge Woods...
Lower Shore Land Trust pollinator garden tour set...
2 years ago
The Lower Shore Land Trust will hold its inaugural tour of nine polliator-friendly gardens across...
Community garden plants native species to attract...
2 years ago
Monarch Nursery recently donated a demonstration pollinator garden using native plants to Lewes...
Back to the Fuchsia is bred from native wildflowers
Paul Barbano
2 years ago
The script was rejected over 40 times. There was a concern that moviegoers wouldn't want to see a...
RSC Landscaping donates greenhouse to Sussex Consortium
2 years ago
RSC Landscaping, East Coast Garden Center, has generously donated a greenhouse to the Sussex...
Milton Garden Club to host plant sale May 29
2 years ago
After a year off because of the pandemic, the Milton Garden Club will hold its annual plant sale...
Tour to feature Shimizu private garden in Lewes June 5
2 years ago
The old-town Lewes garden of Holly and Osamu Shimizu is one of three venues that will be featured...
Villages of Five Points Butterfly Club holds...
2 years ago
The May 15 plant sale to benefit the Villages of Five Points Butterfly Club yielded more than $500...
Bobola Farm & Florist to host Strawberry Festival...
2 years ago
The Delaware Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee will host its 11th Annual...
Broadkill Farmers Market to kick off May 28
Ryan Mavity
2 years ago
A new farmers market is coming to downtown Milton starting at 4 p.m., Friday, May 28. Broadkill...
Strawberry Fields Gomphrena has masses of gorgeous...
Paul Barbano
2 years ago
John Lennon thought one song was his best work when he wrote and sang with the Beatles. When he was...
Delaware Botanic Gardens guests donate items for...
2 years ago
During the recent Earth Day and Mother’s Day celebrations, 400 Delaware Botanic Gardens guests...
Teach a Person to Fish teams with Lewes Community...
2 years ago
The Lewes Community Garden announced it has welcomed Teach a Person to Fish Society into its family...
Mill Pond Garden to host open day May 20
2 years ago
Mill Pond Garden’s open day from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., Thursday, May 20, will celebrate...
Delaware Farm Bureau Foundation holds 5K Milk Run/Walk
2 years ago
More than 100 supporters participated in the Delaware Farm Bureau Foundation’s 8th annual 5K Milk...
All parts of dandelions are edible: leaves, flowers...
Paul Barbano
2 years ago
Raising doves was once quite common. Rock doves, or rock pigeons, came to North America from Europe...
Specialty crop grant applications due May 26
2 years ago
The Delaware Department of Agriculture has received an additional round of funding to enhance the...
Lewes celebrates Arbor Day with planting in the park
2 years ago
Taking part in the City of Lewes May 1 Arbor Day tree planting are (l-r) Sen. Ernie Lopez, R-Lewes...
Delaware Nature Society launches search for...
2 years ago
Anne Harper, executive director of Delaware Nature Society, announced she will be retiring as of...
Governor’s agricultural and urban conservation award...
2 years ago
A virtual ceremony held April 29 marked the annual Governor’s Agricultural and Urban Conservation...
Cape Farm and Garden Tour to benefit food pantries...
2 years ago
The Cape Farm and Garden Tour 2021 will be held from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 to 4 p.m., Saturday,...
Holland Mills and Anthem neighbors clean up road in...
2 years ago
On a bright and breezy Saturday morning in Milton, two neighborhoods came together in celebration...
Lewes fire auxiliary to host Mother’s Day plant sale...
2 years ago
The Lewes Fire Department Auxiliary will hold a Mother’s Day plant sale from 8 a.m. to 12 p.m.,...
With its pleasant fragrance, lesser calamint is a...
Paul Barbano
2 years ago
Some names just beg the question of why? Before the town was even built, a surveyor plotted out...
Chicken farming manual published in Vietnamese,...
2 years ago
Delmarva Chicken Association is publishing its reference manual for vegetative environmental...
Botanic gardens offers free Mother’s Day entry
2 years ago
Delaware Botanic Gardens will be open from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., Mother’s Day, Sunday, May 9, with free...
Mill Pond Garden offers Mother’s Day tours May 9
2 years ago
Everyone loves flowers. They bring a bland green garden alive with color. Most people put flowering...
Milton Garden Club to offer plants, raffles at Tour...
2 years ago
The Milton Garden Club will be a vendor at the new Tour 684 event to be held from 3 to 7 p.m., the...
Botanic gardens’ Earth Day visitors donate to food bank
2 years ago
Delaware Botanic Gardens held an Earth Day donation drive offering free admission that resulted in...
Lewes in Bloom sponsors May Day flower event
2 years ago
Lewes in Bloom has announced the winners of its inaugural Lewes May Day celebration. Lewes...
Beit Alpha kibbutz cucumber is early, sweet, smooth...
Paul Barbano
2 years ago
The beauty of a mixed garden is similar to the beauty of a mixed population of humans. As humans,...
Conservation stewardship applications due April 30
2 years ago
The U.S. Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service in Delaware is...
Botanic gardens hosts Frolic in the Folly
Chris Flood
2 years ago
The Delaware Botanic Gardens recently hosted a Frolic in the Folly, and while the weather was a...
Reuse and recycle materials to benefit home gardens
2 years ago
Mary Louise Lauffer of Lewes shared some of the ways she recycles and reuses items to reduce waste...
Beloved purple martins return to Delaware
2 years ago
In a sure sign that spring was not far behind, the first purple martins of the year were spotted in...
Lewes to recognize Arbor Day with tree planting...
2 years ago
The City of Lewes has been honored by the Arbor Day Foundation with a Tree City USA designation for...
Pimentos are mild or very slightly hot peppers
Paul Barbano
2 years ago
For many of us, Jack Benny sums up golf, “Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner,...
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