Elevate Your Outdoor Gathering… Summers were made for impromptu picnic lunches and dinners alfresco. But who says what’s in your basket or on your outdoor dining table has to be …
Pyrotechnics
Behind the Scenes at the Redding Freedom Festival… • a fireworks display.• a brilliant performance or display, especially of a specified skill. “ he thrilled his audience with vocal pyrotechnics”• …
Mountain Sound Celebration
Catch Some Tunes with the Mt. Shasta Concert Series… Now in its tenth year, the Mt. Shasta Concert Series is hoping for another exciting summer. “The concerts are family-friendly. They’re …
Celebrate Good Times
Sundial Bridge Celebrates 20 Years… On Independence Day in 2004, an architectural marvel known as the Sundial Bridge opened to the public in Northern California. The Sundial Bridge arguably put …
How Does Your Garden Grow
Plantable Nursery & Cafe Plants Seeds of Transformation… In Scotland, Kirkwood and Donna Hale fell in love with the United Kingdom version of a garden center that combines a nursery …
On the Trail of Something Good
The Beauty and the Benefits of the Sacramento River Trail… Talk with enough people on the Sacramento River Trail, and you hear the same words of wonder, of admiration and …
All the Pretty Horses
On the Range with the Wild Horse Fire Brigade… William Simpson II has had multiple careers as a pilot, Merchant Marine officer, and commercial fisherman. Now, at 71, with his …
Well Planted
Locally Sown at Tiffany Devault’s Kindred Garden “Locally sown to be locally grown” says the Kindred Gardens website, a family-owned plant nursery that operates on about a quarter acre in …
A Time to Grow Back Stronger
Rebuilding Whiskeytown Environmental School… Between 1970 and 2018, some 134,000 fifth- and sixth-graders got to splash in Clear Creek, hike, camp overnight, marvel at star-filled skies and learn about the …
Birds of a Feather
Dan Greaney’s Bird Words Book… What Dan Greaney doesn’t know about birds could probably fit in a sparrow’s beak. Much of what he does know is featured in his recently published book, …