As the 2022 gardening year seemingly winds down, it can be understood as actually the beginning of the next one. Gardening is a cyclical process: What we do now is to the garden’s benefit, and is the beginning of the coming year. Gardeners must debate with themselves as to whether skeletal garden remains are left […]
The King’s treasured gardens at Highgrove have become the inspiration for a fashion collection for the first time, with the creation of a new luxury womenswear capsule wardrobe. A glamorous pink silk evening dress reflecting the deep fuchsia of the monarch’s Highgrove rose and shaped in honor of the curves of the topiary along the […]
Tony Vagneur Sometimes, I feel a bit like Rip Van Winkle when somebody or something tells me the world has changed. But, in this case — after several informative and complimentary Aspen Times front-page articles on local small farms — some of the “old-timers” in the valley wondered, as did I, how they’d missed the […]
Bowman farmer Hugh Weathers is seeking his sixth term as the South Carolina commissioner of agriculture. The Republican is facing United Citizens Party candidate Chris Nelums and Green Party candidate David Edmond in the Nov. 8 general election. Weathers defeated challengers Bill Bledsoe and Rob Rozier Jr. in June to win the Republican nomination. No […]