The Dahlia Farm, Middleboro

Middleboro Gazette columnist and blogger Michael Maddigan, visits Middleboro's floral history this week in his "Recollecting Nemasket." Specifically featured: DAHLIAS!

One of the flower farms featured in his article is that of present-day Reynolds Flowers.

Continually cultivated since the first building of record in 1839, this site has produced sweet corn, potatoes, gladioli, seeds, herbs, blueberries, holiday crops such as Easter lilies & poinsettias, hardy mums, dent corn, and perrenial cutflowers. But it was EASTVALE FARMS (1920's-1950's) which made this site historic, when at their zenith they became the largest dahlia farm in New England.

Flower farming continues here today including even, yes, dahlias!

Be sure to read Mr. Maddigan's column (which can be linked to from this blog). His series has been one that is not only historically fascinating, but painstakingly researched and archivally unique in its focus.

Flower Couture hits runway at LA's Fashion Week

This March, BoxEigth Studios - the company behind some of the hottest shows during LA Fashion Week - blossomed with a new hit: Flower Couture.

Yes, the power of flowers has bloomed and the high-style ensemble of orchids and flesh was ripe for the paparazzi and onlookers at fashionable Broadway and Sixth.

Pictured here are several featured designs, but don't wait for these to show up at bargain basements, these sytles are just too fresh!

MOTHERS DAY IS MAY 10, 2009

Mothers Day (and motherhood worship) dates back to the ancient Greeks with the festival of Cybele (a mother of gods), and the celebration of Rhea (wife of the mythological Cronos). Modern American Mothers Day was reportedly conceived by Julia Ward Howe in the post-Civil War era as an homage to "the inherent pacifism of mothers." The holiday is now celebrated around the world on varying dates, but owes is basis to mostly to these initiatives. Throughout Africa, Mothers Day follows the British model and much of East Asia has now adopted the United States' version.

If you need to send flowers for this Mothers Day please visit us at: http://www.reynoldsflowers.com/. We personally deliver to Bridgewater, Carver, EastTaunton, Halifax, Lakeville, Middleboro, & Plympton, and can arrange delivery to Florida, Maine or anywhere else in the free world.

Locally grown food finds niche in Brockton area - Brockton, MA - The Enterprise

Locally grown food finds niche in Brockton area - Brockton, MA - The Enterprise: "Locally grown food finds niche in Brockton area
Demand for local produce is sprouting

Tim Correira/The Enterprise
Jim Reynolds feeds his chickens at The Dahlia Farm in Middleboro on Thursday. Reynolds, who runs a successful florist shop, is expanding and will sell eggs and produce from his 6-acre farm.



Related Links We need a diet of “real food,” Michael Pollan tells Bridgewater State audience (03/27/09)
By Kyle Alspach
ENTERPRISE STAFF WRITER
Posted Mar 27, 2009 @ 11:28 PM

MIDDLEBORO — A new organic farm in Middleboro and a farmers market in Bridgewater are set to debut this year, two signs that locally grown food is a growing commodity in the region.The Dahlia Farm on Plymouth Street in Middleboro will offer organic vegetables and herbs, eggs from free-range chickens and cut flowers, said farmer Jim Reynolds.People will be able to buy “shares” of the vegetable crop this summer, entitling them to an assortment of veggies each week starting in June...

Nearly 500 people who crowded into a Bridgewater State College hall on Wednesday to hear a talk from Michael Pollan, local food advocate and author of best-sellers “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” and “In Defense of Food.”Pollan’s emphasis on eating “real food” — with little or no processing — is something that resonates with farmers such as Jim Reynolds.“People are becoming more and more aware of what exactly is in the food they’ve been eating — that just because something has an FDA approval, it doesn’t necessarily mean it’s good for you,” he said.The Dahlia Farm is located on the property of Reynolds Flowers, a business run by Reynolds’ family since the 1950s.Reynolds, 46, and his wife, Michele, will be farming the land together this year. One acre is being devoted this year to vegetables, he said.Another two acres are allotted for the farm’s 50 chickens, which are currently producing organic eggs for the Rockin K Cafe in Bridgewater.Reynolds joins several dozen other farmers in southeastern Massachusetts growing food mainly for local consumption.“There’s very much a movement of people becoming educated in what we’re eating,” he said...

Middleboro Youth Advocates - Prom Fair 2009

See us Sunday, March 22, at Middleboro Youth Advocates 2009 "Prom Fair."

This community outreach group has been active in Middleboro for some time and we are always happy to support their worthy cause. You can visit their site directly for more information at: http://middleboroyouthadvocates.org/Prom_Fair_2009.html

Newport Wedding Gallery

We have been pick-up by The Newport Wedding Gallery blog at: http://newportweddings.blogspot.com/2009/03/avq-nautical-floral-monogram-for-you.html

Thank you, Nancy!

Easter 2009

Easter Sunday celebrations for 2009 fall on April 12 in the western calendar (Catholic and Protestant Churches). The Eastern Orthodox Church has set the date for Easter 2009 to be 19th April.
Easter is a "floating" holiday whose main constant is that it falls 40 days after Ash Wednesday, which is the day after "Fat Tuesday" or in French, "Mardi Gras." The 40 days between Mardi Gras & Easter is called Lent - a period of fasting, sacrifice and prayer in symbolic remembrance of the Christ's sacrifice.
The float has been occurring since the Council of Nicaea in the year 325AD, when Roman Emperor Constantine I ordered the Christian leaders to set doctrine and dates of principal Christian events.
Easter (literally, to the east) is not only the Christian Resurrection, but that of older paganism as well, calling the re-birth of the Earth and spring from the depths and deaths of winter and the solstice. Not coincidentally, Easter's "float" moves around the vernal equinox.