In today s Growing Together column, Don Kinzler lists the top new varieties and explains their characteristics. Written By: Don Kinzler | ×
Zinnia Profusion Red Yellow Bicolor. Photo courtesy of All-America Selections / Special to The Forum
The phrase “new and improved” is so cliche it’s often best left out of any marketing strategy. Some items, though, actually are new and improved, such as the yearly All-America Selections award-winning varieties of flowers and vegetables.
Plant breeders are prolific, introducing scores of new items each year, featured in the front pages of every garden seed catalog. The All-America Selections organization selects the best of the best, taking the guesswork out of new flower and vegetable varieties.
Gail Phaneuf named executive director of Maine’s historic Deertrees Theatre
Gail Phaneuf
Gail Phaneuf – a playwright, educator, composer, actor, director and a 40-year summer resident of Harrison – has been named the artistic and executive director of the historic Deertrees Theatre, which has provided performing arts entertainment to the Greater Maine region since 1936. Phaneuf has permanently relocated to Harrison to live there year-round and assume her new position. As a playwright and composer, Phaneuf has penned three full musicals and 16 plays that are performed at venues around the world. Her award-winning “MONSTERS! A Midlife Musical Meltdown” premiered in Boston and subsequently was produced at Deertrees, among other theaters. Originally founded as an opera house by prominent opera singer and director Enrica Clay Dillon, Deertrees Theatre has since been home to Broadway stars and local actors, world-acclaimed musicians and aspiring students.
Winterâs here: Time to shop for seeds!
By Margaret Roach New York Times,Updated December 21, 2020, 3:29 p.m.
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Resilience: Itâs a buzzword in the vegetable-seed industry, and a mission â to breed genetically resilient varieties that stand up to pests, diseases, and the rigors of a shifting climate.
Each resilient variety becomes a tiny, critical ingredient in a resilient seed system that supports agriculture, the foundation of a resilient food system.
And in the tumultuous 2020 seed-catalog season, resilience proved a valuable human trait as well, for seed company staff and their customers. Insights gleaned from that chaotic year of record sales can smooth the ground for the 2021 garden season, which officially begins this month, as new catalogs start appearing in mailboxes and online.
Margaret Roach, The New York Times
Published: 19 Dec 2020 05:45 PM BdST
Updated: 19 Dec 2020 05:45 PM BdST Roasted pumpkin seeds, Oct 15, 2019. Food stylist: Barrett Washbourne. David Malosh/The New York Times
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Each resilient variety becomes a tiny, critical ingredient in a resilient seed system that supports agriculture, the foundation of a resilient food system.
And in the tumultuous 2020 seed-catalogue season, resilience proved a valuable human trait as well, for seed company staff and their customers. Insights gleaned from that chaotic year of record sales can smooth the ground for the 2021 garden season, which officially begins this month, as new catalogues start appearing in mailboxes and online.