Brooklyn with Mahsa – 6th Annual Brooklyn Country Music Festival at SOUTHPAW in Park Slope!

Posted by in Recreation on Aug 1st, 2010 | 0 comments

Hosted by Shafer Hall & Alex Battles. For more information on the festival visit: brooklyncountrymusic.com Alex Battles founded the Brooklyn Country Music Festival in 2004 to promote the borough's burgeoning original music scene. Now in its sixth installment, the Brooklyn Country Music Festival has always highlighted New York City's finest country songwriters. Living in the top-40-country-radio-free zone of New York City allows local country musicians and songwriters to create music in a sonic vacuum. Consider it a new outlaw movement, if you will. The performers certainly do. *** The 6th Annual Brooklyn Country Music Festival September 17-19, 2009 @ Southpaw 125 5th Ave. Brooklyn, NY 11217 718-230-0236 Admission: $10 a day Limited number of $25 3-day passes available on Ticketweb Thursday, September 17, 2009 8pm Sammo (sack'n'soul) 9pm Alana Amram & The Rough Gems (country folk) 10pm Sean Kershaw & The New Jack Ramblers (hi-octane honky tonk) 11pm Andy Friedman & The Golden Winners (art country) mid The Defibulators (whackabilly) Friday, September 18, 2009 8pm The Wicked Messengers (woodstock twangadelica) 9pm Julia Haltigan & The Hooligans (antique pop-americana) 10pm M Shanghai String Band (eclectic acoustic folk/bluegrass) 11pm Jack Grace Band (New York's legendary "martini cowboy") mid The Woes (soulful Delta Blues) with WNYU DJ Honky Tonk Radio Girl Saturday, September 19, 2009 4pm The Havens (twangy string band) 5pm Dock Oscar & The Ambassadors of Love (full pedal ...

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The Forager’s Harvest DVD trailer.m2t

Posted by in Virginia Wildlife on Jul 4th, 2010 | 0 comments

The Forager's Harvest DVD A Video Guide To Identifying, Harvesting, and Preparing Edible Wild Plants Drawing upon a lifetime of experience with edible wild plants, Samuel Thayer shares his in-depth knowledge of foraging with authority, enthusiasm, and humor. This video covers 32 plants -- with tips on where to find them, how to identify them, their season of harvest, and their methods of collection and preparation. With over 3 hours of video instruction covering 58 edible portions of the plants, The Forager's Harvest is an invaluable resource for wild food enthusiasts of all experience levels. In this video companion to the very popular book of the same title, you'll be swept away with Sam's passion for wild edibles, and see first hand, aspects of the plants in a way that only a video can provide! Disc 1 - Basswood - Black Locust - Burdock - Butternut - Cattail - Choke Cherry - Ground Bean - Evening Primrose - Highbush Cranberry - Hopniss - Lamb's Quarter's - Marsh Marigold - Milkweed - Nanny Berry - Osterich Fern Disc 2 - Parsnip - Pin Cherry - Service Berry - Sheep Sorrel - Siberian Elm - Smilax - Spring Beauty - Stinging Nettle - Sumac - Swamp Saxifrage - Thistle - Virginia Waterleaf - Wapato - Wild Grape - Wild Leek - Wild Rice - Wood Nettle

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