Cornell Cooperative Extension (CCE) in Canandaigua is offering its biennial Master Gardener (MG) training for Ontario County from September 3 through November 19. This program is geared toward individuals with basic gardening experience eager to learn more. Registered participants will expand their knowledge on lawn care, soils, fertilizing, fruit and vegetable gardening, botany, ticks, structural …

Amanda Farnsworth has been training dogs to herd animals for more than fifteen years. “A lot of people start on all-terrain vehicles until they realize you can get one dog, and it’s so much smoother,” she says. “I primarily love herding because it’s so unpredictable,” she says. According to Farnsworth, sheep farms are quite common …

Here’s one for you—what do rowdy fashion shows and youth homelessness have in common?  Everything—at least once a year. Fashion Week Rochester, a labor of love from Center for Youth director Elaine Spaull and fashionista Meghan Mundy celebrates its tenth year in 2019.  Mundy started out as a student at New York’s Fashion Institute of …

It was one of the most glamorous nightspots in the world: the Stork Club. Between 1929 and 1965, the Manhattan venue was the favored destination of the upper crust and celebrities from around the world. Grace Kelly, Ernest Hemingway, the Vanderbilts, and J. Edgar Hoover frequented the club; golden days only documented now by fragmented …

Glasgow bartender Mal Spence created a drink to celebrate the 2014 Commonwealth games that required 71 different ingredients, ranging from prickly pear to devil’s claw (that’s the genus Harpagophytum, for those following at home). When cocktail enthusiasts think about stocking their living room bars, sometimes this is what they envision—the need to buy bottles on …

  Fashion, by nature, has always pushed social norms. Is there anything that you guys are doing this year, or last year, that wouldn’t have flown ten years ago?   Meghan: Well…our favorite show, this Thursday show, we have drag queens in that. That’s the night we’re planning for the LGBTQ house funds to go …