Gardening

The Garden of Eatin: Free Vegetable Gardening Classes at the Yellow Green Market

You probably already know, but it's Slow Foods week, a celebration of all things locally grown. While we love the idea of eating at farm-to-table restaurants and buying from local producers, you couldn't get much closer than your own backyard. No, we mean literally. Karin Fields -- a.k.a. the Edib ... More >>

Five Ways to Score South Florida-Grown Produce

For more on South Florida's food scene, check out New Times' Taste guide, hitting newsstands Thursday, February 21. The idea of eating locally grown produce is all well and good, but when it boils down to a busy day, a rumbling stomach, and an empty fridge, it can be tough to make educated, respons ... More >>

The Urban Farmer in Pompano: Local Food in Broward County

If you are even remotely into food, you know that the locavore movement has been making some serious progress. In cities like Chicago, urban farms are so prolific that 65 acres of city space has been utilized to produce food. Like most things, in South Florida, the movement has taken some time to ca ... More >>

Gardening Grows Up(ward)

Today's Your Last Chance! Ellenville Farmers' Market Goes on Seven-Week Hiatus

Every Thursday from 4 to 8 p.m., the Ellenville Garden Center transforms into the Ellenville Farmers' Market -- also known as the Moonlit Farmers Market. There's food and wine and café tables. There's usually a live band to provide the music, and local farmers to provide the company. In fact, Farme ... More >>

How to Start Farming: Q&A With Farmer Jay McCobb

Interest in farming and gardening is on the rise. In line with the national trend, community gardens and school garden projects are starting to pop up all over South Florida. Just last week, Fort Lauderdale city commissioners approved a code designed to bring back urban agriculture.Given these circu ... More >>

Fresh Herbs in Everything: The Summer's Least Annoying Food Trend

Food writers (and the food obsessed) tend to get exasperated with food trends more quickly than the general public. After logging hours tasting, salivating over, and deconstructing the happenings in the culinary world, it's only logical that this segment of the population (and its brethren ... More >>

Learn How to Grow Your Own Veggies Thursday, April 26, in Fort Lauderdale

Sick of hearing about all of the disgusting things that wind up in your food? Broward County residents who want more control over what goes on their dinner plate can attend an interactive gardening demo from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Thursday, April 26, in downtown Fort Lauderdale. The event will be led by ... More >>

Organic Gardening "How To" Featuring Farmer Jay: Saturday at Whole Foods in Boca Raton

​Farmer Jay -- civilian name: Jason McCobb -- will lead a one-hour workshop for budding organic gardeners at Whole Foods Market in Boca Raton from 1 to 2 p.m. Saturday. The informal workshop will cover basics such as soil amendments and other fundamentals of organic gardening. 

Urban Homesteading Teaches Suburban Warriors to Be One With Nature

Urban Homesteading: Heirloom Skills for Sustainable Living, by Rachel Kaplan with K. Ruby Blume.​As urban sprawl pushes farther and farther into formerly wild and rural areas, the comforts of modern living are beginning to stress our natural resources. Despite the welcome rains of the past week, a ... More >>

Rick Scott Sure Gets You Riled Up (Misleading Supreme Court Judges Doesn't Hurt)

​It would appear that when a suspected fraudster gets elected governor and then uses questionable methods to achieve goals that he won't explain to anyone -- the man even refuses to use email so we won't know what he's thinking -- the public actually still cares. When Rick Scott does something fun ... More >>

Grow Your Own Food: Classes at The Urban Farmer

Southern Foodways Alliance ​South Florida isn't exactly a locavore's paradise-- "locally grown" around here usually means mangoes filched from your neighbor's tree in the dead of night (at least for me). But maybe that's beginning to change, or at least we're finally starting to get some credib ... More >>

Fruitful Field/Parkway-Tedder Community Garden Up and Running in Pompano (PHOTOS)

​​                         I've heard about urban garden projects sprouting up throughout the South Florida community, but I've never had the chance to see one. A few months ago, a friend told me about a community garden that was ... More >>

2009 Restaurant Roll Call - Openings

​We all know 2009 was sort of a strange year for restaurants. On one hand, there were dozens of significant openings, places that really added to our overall scene. On the other, there was more attrition than a super-long game of Risk. Here's a comprehensive run down, from A to Z of what opened in ... More >>

Cheap Wine That Doesn't Suck: El Coto Rioja Rosado

Is there any wine that goes better with barbecue than rosé? I think not.  Barbecue is hot, rich, spicy, fatty. Rosé (that doesn't suck) is chilled, lean, fruity, refreshing. It's a marriage meant to be celebrated in backyards and consummated over a rack of baby backs smeared with tart-sweet-f ... More >>

Forecast for West Palm: Expect a Shower

photo courtesy PETATomorrow on Clematis, a spectacle like the one aboveHot chicks. Nude. Showering. In public. The prospect is so dazzling...well... it's damned hard to focus on the political point. But if you can pry yourself away from that photo, we'll give it a try.Before we get to that, it behoo ... More >>

The Day the World Came to Wellington

John SotoGuarding the entrance to the Lechuza Caracas estate in Wellington is a gate at least eight feet high, topped with iron spikes and emblazoned with the golden emblem of an owl. An electronic keypad out front is the only way to make the doors swing open, but for now they remain firmly shut. Th ... More >>

1-Minute Review: Maison Carlos

Not the Same As It Ever Was We once loved chic Maison Carlos for its nostalgic take on Italian and French "Continental" cuisine; the menu felt like a '60s throwback plunked down in the middle of Clematis Street, from the oysters Rockefeller and vichyssoise to the soupe a l'ognion and the perfectly ... More >>

Roxy's Pub

No Country for Old Warthogs

Brian Harris' Tall Grass brings out Inside Out Theatre's animal nature

First Class Brass

ReBirth Brass Band

Bros and Cons

A too-hip tree trimmer is the major contributor in a bizarre mayor's race

The Deep End

Wet 'n' Wild

Best New Club in Palm Beach

Release Night Club

Best Theater

Palm Beach Dramaworks

Good Times, Great Shorts

Pop goes the culture convention

The Anti-Sessions: Final Volume

Cave In

Best Newsstand

Clematis Street News Stand

Banned in WPB

Phallic condos and shiny Starbucks push the under-21 crowd off Clematis.

Psycho Daisies

Rumors of retirement are greatly exaggerated

Franni's Fest

Another year, another Frannipalooza

Scream, Fall, Repeat

Big, ugly rock with a brain? Meet Fleshies!

Panthers Declawed

Another hockey season ends with a whimper

Trip-Hop Limbo

Strung out and hung over with the relaced Sneaker Pimps

Kodo

Mondo Head (Red Ink)

Best Fresh Produce

Whole Foods Market

Best Artist to Skip Town

Master Jeffrey Holmes

Just the Tips

Cops tell drum circle to beat it

Best Hike

Quiet Waters Park

Best French Restaurant

Bistro Provence

Best Pedicure

Serenity Aveda Day Spa

State of the Garden

A plot of land at Nova Southeastern offers remedial answers to what ails you

Branch Managers

Hacking trees in the subtropics is ecologically ugly. It's also illegal.

Best Mexican Restaurant

La Palma Grill

Best Diva

LaGaylia

Night & Day

January 21 - 27, 1999

Undercurrents

Forget Shorty, Get Marvin!

How novelist Elmore Leonard's friendship with Palm Beach County criminal judge Marvin Mounts led to a popular book and a new TV show