PlantersPlace.com | The Kitchen Garden | Edible Shrubs at the Brine Garden I met Duncan Brine at the Garden Writers Association Symposium last year in Portland but it wasn’t until yesterday that I got a peek at his fabulous garden in the Hudson Valley. Duncan and his wife Julia have transformed their six acre property [...]

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“Eden Reconsidered” A Passionate Appreciation of the Brine Garden by Marilyn Bethany At once naturalistic and theatrical, Brine’s garden challenges every assumption.  A knowledgeable plantsman who teaches off-season at the New York Botanical Garden, he confidently tosses together commonplace natives with rare and exquisite exotics, mass plantings with specimens, fine tuning each close-up but always [...]

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Erik Kiviat’s Hudsonia is an important resource for environmental research and education in the Hudson Valley. Get an eyeful of his perspective here. http://www.townofdover.us/HudsoniaPresentation.pdf

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Storm King Art Center The focus of Storm King Art Center’s distinguished permanent collection of American and European modern sculpture is on large abstract welded steel works from the 1960′s to the present, although figurative works are also on view. A core group of thirteen sculptures by David Smith anchor a collection of outstanding works [...]

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Schumer proclaims his support for walkway project | PoughkeepsieJournal.com | Poughkeepsie Journal – Annotated By Jenny Lee • Poughkeepsie Journal • April 19, 2008 HIGHLAND – Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., saw the breathtaking view from the Poughkeepsie Railroad Bridge Friday and announced he’s pushing for $1.5 million in federal money to help transform the bridge [...]

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