If you’d like to sample several different Virginia wines without having to run around the Piedmont, then the 7 PM dinner at Clyde’s Willow Creek Farm on Tuesday, February 3rd may be the perfect outing. The warm interior of the restaurant with its snow-covered rolling fields as a backdrop will be an inviting setting for the [...]
Filed under: Events, Gourmet Food, Local Products, Loudoun County, Restaurants, Wineries on January 31st, 2009 | No Comments »
It’s gratifying to see how the universe applauds the Virginia wine industry. Recently at the San Francisco Chronicle’s Wine Competition, the largest such competition of American wines in the World, Sugarleaf Vineyards, from outside Charlottesville, scored impressively.
They earned 3 silver medals for 2007 wines: Cabernet Franc, Cabernet Sauvignon, and the Petit Manseng. If you have [...]
Filed under: Albemarle County, Events, Local Products, News, Wineries on January 31st, 2009 | No Comments »
Hats off to Berryville’s Veramar Vineyard for snagging two bronze medals at the 2009 San Francisco Chronicle Wine Competition. With nearly 5,000 wine entries from the United States, this competition is no small affair. The awards– for 2007 Veramar Vineyard Cabernet Franc and Chardonnay– shine the spotlight on the fabulous varietals cultivated in Virginia. Stop [...]
Filed under: Clarke County, Local Products, News, Wineries on January 31st, 2009 | No Comments »
Live around Chantilly in Loudoun County? The Washington Post has the scoop on one of the largest awards in a mold case in Virginia. The Mengs moved into a new, 5,900-square-foot house in the Tall Cedar Estates subdivision in late 2005, and it took awhile to realize that shoddy construction (and unmended leaks) caused toxin-producing [...]
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Sign up for the Piedmont Environmental Council’s weekly newsletters– chock full of interesting tidbits from across our region– and you’ll get to ogle pretty pix, too. Like the photo featured above, taken by John Foster.
Filed under: Friday Photo, Land Conservation and Environmental Stewardship on January 30th, 2009 | No Comments »
Did this winter weather give you cabin fever? Shake it off with a visit to the Sugarloaf Craft Festival at the Dulles Expo Center in Chantilly. The festival runs from January 30th to February 1st. Sugarloaf Craft Festivals are designer craft shows and fine art fairs with quality works in many different mediums. Come see the [...]
Filed under: Art, Artists, and Galleries, Events, Loudoun County on January 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
Why not warm the soul and spirit with a Bluegrass and Folk Music Jam!? The Last-Friday-of-the-Monthly Jam is being held January 30th beginning at 6 pm. The jam has moved 10 minutes north of Round Hill to Hillsboro’s Old Stone School, 37098 Charles Town Pike, Hillsboro, Virginia. Round Hill Arts Center is celebrating five years [...]
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There are still a few tickets available for Saturday’s event at Four County Players. Check out Doug Schneider and Friends, possibly Charlottesville’s best known actor and singer, at the Barboursville Community Center on Saturday, January 31st at 8 pm. Voted Charlottesville’s Best Actor 2007 by the readers of C-ville, Doug Schneider has been entertaining local [...]
Filed under: Art, Artists, and Galleries, Events, Orange County on January 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
Step through the looking glass and join Alice on her adventures through Wonderland. The Center for the Arts’ Pied Piper Theatre opens the New Year with the delightful classic fairy tale, ALICE IN WONDERLAND. Laugh along with the Mad Hatter as he entertains the March Hare and the Dormouse at tea. Then follow the White [...]
Filed under: Art, Artists, and Galleries, Events, Prince William County on January 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
By Brian L. Lichorowic
I’m told it rises up first, through snow if necessary, defiant and dignified. As if to say: “You call that a winter?”
Kale. Brassica oleracea. Around the Piedmont, it’s everywhere. A non-hearting type of cabbage, meaning it doesn’t curl into a ball. Most commonly rolled into the “greens” category. Rich in calcium, heavy [...]
Filed under: Farms and Farmers, Gardening, Gourmet Food, Local Products, Piedmont Regions on January 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
