The Potting-shed Papers: From Johnny Appleseed's Apples to Sex and the Single Strawberry - Explorations of Gardens and Gardeners
Covering Health (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
Medical Marketing & Media's Matthew Arnold profiled AHCJ member Scott Hensley, of the NPR Health Blog, calling him "digital health journalism's Johnny Appleseed" for his role in starting health blogs at media behemoths such as The Wall Street Journal and National Public Radio. [caption id="attachment_4811" align="alignright" width="184" caption="Scott...
Our Little Acre (Free subscription) | 30/10/2009
We live in the land of Johnny Appleseed . To our east, not far from here, is Defiance, where he established one of his nurseries on the north bank of the Maumee River. Most of the early apple orchards in our county (Paulding) were started with seedlings from that nursery. Just a short distance west of us, in Fort Wayne, Indiana, lie his remains. I've always thought...
The Mane Point Is . . . (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
National Apple MonthOctober is in the United States.Autumn is here, and apple-picking is in vogue. What better way could there be to foster family togetherness and good nutrition than to spend a sunny fall afternoon picking apples at a local orchard'(OK, so this might cut into an equestrian's last outdoor trail rides of the season, but apple picking is fun as well.)Horse...
The Ethicurean (Free subscription) | 18/10/2009
... briefly shimmering array of jewel tones and the mercury starts to tumble, I’m finally ready for apples. In this neck of the woods, I can find berries galore through the summer, but the quintessential Ohio fruit has always been — in my mind, at least — the humble apple. Maybe that’s because like other Ohio schoolchildren, I was raised on the legend of Johnny Appleseed...
Britannica Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
... his half-brother, Wing Hobama in China. So the legend of the Kenyan exchange student goes on—the Johnny Appleseed of Kenya. There’s a Vladimir Obama, Jean-Pierre Obama, an Izzy Obama, Shayan Sundar Obama, Don Francisco Obama, a Lou Dobbs Obama, Guillermo del Obama, L.L. Cool O, and in the outback, Barandura Obama. Plus a half-cousin in Milwaukee. In other news … Tit for tat continues...
Nancy's Blog (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
... know how I might do this? Or will I be reduced to leaving them all over town in small lots, like Johnny Appleseed sowing apples, until someone reports me for literary littering? Desperation is starting to set in.
Mod-Blog (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
I am not quite sure what to make of this one. Inspired by Johnny Appleseed, two design students have created an add-on to bikes designed to seed cityscapes with flowers . The idea is a mixture of bubble solution and tiny flower seeds are put in, then the natural motion of the bicycle generates a wind thru the device which blows bubble filled with the seeds. The bubble drift...
Joe Brainard's Pyjamas (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Johnny Appleseed was a Swedenborgian. That's why he planted striplings in the manner he did. He shared the belief with Swedenborg that everything, every object, (every quality') we see on earth had an analogue in heaven. Everybody in American drank hard cider (alcohol). This was prudent since many mortal illnesses were waterborne. By 1830, we were a country of alcoholics. Entire...
iPhone4y.com (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
... the jokes to make you the life of the party! Here are some of the jokes included in the app * If Johnny Appleseed is late, time better slow down * Johnny Appleseed is the ...
Star Tribune (Free subscription) | 27/10/2009
In search of shrubs Dan Hinkley is part Johnny Appleseed, part "Survivor Man." From his base garden in Washington's Puget Sound, he treks the world, gathering unusual plants and introducing them to American gardeners back home. Now, 10 years after publishing his explorer's guide to perennials, Hinkley delivers his second installment, "The Explorer's Garden: Shrubs and Vines From the Four...
AMERICAN DIGEST (Free subscription) | 25/10/2009
... He's as close to a real folk hero as you can find in contemporary American life. It was as if Johnny Appleseed was on TV for two decades, but everyone was too busy watching execrable people with no talent judge singers with even less talent to notice. -- doesn't begin to do it justice. Then there is, as there always is, Richard Fernandez continuing his almost decade long output of...
Detroit Free Press (Free subscription) | 22/10/2009
In autumn, the awesome apple always takes center stage. Midwest states, including Michigan, are part of a tradition established by legendary nurseryman John Chapman, better known as Johnny Appleseed. Although Chapman was born in Massachusetts in 1774, he spent most of his life in the Midwest, where he is regarded as a folk hero.
Denver Post (Free subscription) | 20/10/2009
... to order a case of them for himself and told me of his dream to grow them locally and become the Johnny Appleseed of the Padron pepper. He also enlightened me about the source for the peppers' irregular hotness: the peppers that are on the outside of the plant and get rained on are the spicy ones.Padron peppers are available by mail-order from , purveyor of all things Spanish. If...
Ball State Daily News (Free subscription) | 19/10/2009
... seasonal goodies, which came mainly from Minnetrista's local vendors and their farmers market. Hot apple cider and cream cheese topped with a roasted red pepper jelly were just a couple of the snacks laid out for guests.In the banquet room, chef Gary Abbott kicked things off with a demonstration on how to make apple butter. Instead of heading straight into how it's made, however,...
