| Gardening meetings set
*Garden designer and perennial specialist Kent Russell will speak at the Warrington Garden Club meeting at 12:30 p.m. Wednesday in the Pearl S. Buck Room of the Bucks County Library Center, 150 S. Pine St., Doylestown. Russell will discuss container gardening and provide tips on planting and maintaining containers throughout the season. Guests are welcome. Information: (215) 362-0652. *Bucksmont Organic Gardeners will meet at 7:15 p.m. April 9 at Churchville Nature Center, 501 Churchville Lane, Churchville. Organic gardener Paul Thompson will lead the discussion, What is Organic Gardening and Why Is Organic Gardening Important? He will share basic principles to make garden soil healthy. Beginners and experienced gardeners alike are welcome.
Visitors will see 'very diminished landscape'
Patrick Morris acts, directs and produces for the Cambridge-based Menagerie Theatre Company - and he is not averse to making the odd cup of coffee too. "It's that sort of operation," he says of the three-person company, which was founded in 1999 and has performed to great acclaim ever since. .
Remake Is Very Quiet
Its all but quiet on the Hollywood remark front. This afternoon, CB received word over the movie war wire that ex-Washington Post managing editor Ian Stokell and Lesley Paterson have optioned the classic novel, All Quiet on the Western Front to blow it up into a Hollywood light show. The two will use the novel as a starting point for a bombastic Hollywood remake, says Dark Horizons.
"By creating new storylines ourselves, we believe this modern rendition will encompass greater depth and historical context, but still remain congruent with the spirit of Erich Maria Remarque's work," said Paterson in a press release. "We plan on recreating the spectacular visual ambience of trench warfare - miles and miles of desolate, bombed out and cratered landscape - we also intend to add more texture and emotional layering to the overall story."
Thats a lot of angles up in the air historical context, spirit of the original novel, spectacular visual ambience.
Turkey hunt provides fantastic glimpse of spring
Imprints in the bare patch of red dirt told the story of a recent dance, ancient in origin, wild and driven by undeniable purpose. Three-toed footprints the middle toe appreciably longer than the outside digits tracked around and around and back and forth over an area about the size of a trashcan lid. Here and there, foot-long grooves cut the dance floor. The Rio Grande turkey a gobbler, obviously; the long middle toe is the clue had only hours before stood on this spot, puffed his feathers, tucked his head tight to his back, spread his tail and dropped the tips of his wings. He twirled and stepped, two or three stiff-legged strides forward, then spun in place and did a sidestep. The tips of his wings dragged along the rain-softened earth, carving the grooves in the red soil and leaving the telltale "strut" marks.
Made in Vermont: A Growth Industry
They may not be the hardest workers here, but the cows at the Foster Farm in Middlebury certainly earn their keep. Jim Foster beams, "It's benefiting Vermont all the way around!" The farmers sell the cows' milk, produce electricity from their manure, and now draw even more profits from that waste. Foster explains, "We're taking that a step further and using that to make a value-added product." Fifteen years ago, the Fosters launched a line of compost. Since then, the business of helping gardens grow has grown itself. Vermont Natural Ag Products sells several mixes, some approved for organic farms. Heather Foster-Provencher says, "It gives them nutrients that might be missing in the soils you're trying to grow product in." Their signature line of "Moo Doo" claims to be "Udderly the Best." To make it, the Fosters use their farm's manure, also trucking in manure from other Vermont dairy farms.
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