Come and Celebrate 34 years of The Lift Me Up Therapeutic Riding Program with Jeans & Jewels Anniversary Gala. The Gala will be held on Saturday November 14th, at Sterling BMW. The event will begin at 7 pm and include Dinner, Dancing and Bull Riding. For the past 34 years Lift Me Up! has been providing [...]
Filed under: Events, Gourmet Food, Loudoun County, News, Sponsor on October 30th, 2009 | No Comments »
We all know this region is filled with many haunted battlefields, really old houses and plenty of history and mystery. Did you know that Virginia ranks at the top of the Haunted Places list from the National Register of Haunted Locations, There are nearly 170 spooky sites claiming paranormal happenings, and those are just [...]
Filed under: Events, Farms and Farmers, History and Historic Places, News, Piedmont Regions on October 29th, 2009 | No Comments »
Forget about cooking dinner Thursday night, October 29th 7:00 pm, dip into something different! Corcoran Vineyards is pairing up with The Melting Pot in Reston for a fun fondue meal paired with 5 Corcoran Wines. $65 Reservations Required 703-264-0900. {map}
Filed under: Events, Gourmet Food, Loudoun County, News, Restaurants, Wineries on October 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
Come to Monticello and learn about Cooking Unusual Vegetables with Gabriele Rausse on Saturday, October 31st. Like many visitors in Monticello’sVegetable Garden you may be curious about how to prepare many of the odd and rare vegetables found there. Come and learn more about these unusual vegetable and the preparation and use of them. Gabriele Rausse will introduce you to these [...]
Filed under: Albemarle County, Events, Farms and Farmers, Gardening, Gourmet Food, History and Historic Places, Land Conservation and Environmental Stewardship, Local Products, News on October 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
Leaf Peeps in the Fall come along with the Piedmont Virginian as we tour the countryside on Saturday, Saturday, October 31st.
Reston Limousine and The Piedmont Virginian would like for you to experience the Piedmont in full color and style. Relax and take in the beautiful fall colors and views. This Fall Getaway Package will [...]
Filed under: Events, Gourmet Food, History and Historic Places, Hotels and Country Inns, News, Piedmont Regions, Sponsor on October 28th, 2009 | No Comments »
Somehow the Fall season has become a hectic merry-go-round and Halloween is still 5 days away. Here are a few treats worth considering before we start thinking of dressing the turkey.
It’s not too late to go to Lansdowne Resort in Leesburg and take advantage of their Pink Spa concept. This being Breast Cancer Awareness Month, [...]
Filed under: Albemarle County, Events, Gardening, Gourmet Food, Hotels and Country Inns, Local Products, Loudoun County, News, Restaurants on October 26th, 2009 | No Comments »
On October 30, 2009, Books & Crannies and Market Salamander will host a very special event to bring the Slow Food movement to Middleburg. They are pleased to welcome Douglas Gayeton, a filmmaker, photographer and writer, who is also a pioneer in the Slow Food movement. His spectacular new book, SLOW: Life in a [...]
Filed under: Events, Farms and Farmers, Gardening, Gourmet Food, Land Conservation and Environmental Stewardship, Local Products, Loudoun County, News, Restaurants on October 26th, 2009 | No Comments »
In the Winter 2009 issue of The Piedmont Virginian, we profiled local farmers Chip and Susan Planck of Wheatland Vegetable Farm along with Attila Agoston and Shawna DeWitt, who farm Mountain View Farm at the Blue Ridge Center for Environmental Stewardship. This weekend The Washington Post Magazine profiles the Plancks in an article called “Growing [...]
Filed under: Farms and Farmers, Land Conservation and Environmental Stewardship, Local Products, Loudoun County on October 25th, 2009 | No Comments »
On November 6, 2009, The Garden Club of Virginia will hold its 51st Annual Conservation Forum at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business in Charlottesville. Open to the public (with a $16 registration fee, students are free), the forum addresses the critical issues facing Virginia’s community and environment today: sustainability, land use, urban [...]
Filed under: Albemarle County, Clarke County, Culpeper County, Events, Fauquier County, Gardening, Greene County, History and Historic Places, Land Conservation and Environmental Stewardship, Loudoun County, Louisa County, Madison County, Nelson County, News, Orange County, Prince William County, Rappahannock County on October 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
Come and Discover the strange and spooky side of aviation and space at the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum’s Udvar-Hazy Center’s Annual Air and Scare! This annual event features trick-or treating, hands-on activities, face-painting, costumed Star Wars characters, and much more. Visitors are encouraged to come in costume! There are more than twenty activity and [...]
Filed under: Events, Loudoun County, News on October 23rd, 2009 | No Comments »
