February 2022 Gardening Advice
submitted by Jennifer Fairfield, Garden Mill and Manchester Community & School Gardens With winter halfway over, it’s time to start really planning for our gardens. If you haven’t already, it’s time to go through your seeds to see what you have left over and what you will need for the upcoming season. To Do Indoors […]
Holiday Gifts: Riverside carolers bring joy of the season to Manchester
Once upon a time, third-grade teacher Sarah McCaffrey was the faculty supervisor for the Kiwanis K-Kids group. One of her favorite events of the year was to take the children Christmas caroling. Now that the Kiwanis and the K-Kids are no longer organized, she wanted to find a way to continue. “It’s such a beautiful […]
Holiday gifts: Listen to your inner voice
submitted by Kim Blumenstein, David’s Coat Room In November 2018, I started David’s Coat Room in honor of my Dad. The 25th anniversary of his passing was approaching and I believed starting the charity was a perfect way to honor him. I won’t lie — the first year was difficult, but any doubt I had […]
Holiday Gifts: Paying it forward
I received a call last week from a long time Manchester resident who had moved away several years ago and recently returned to town, after living in southern California during the interim. “Some things are the same here and some are so different,” she commented. “It’s been a huge culture change … moving away from […]
Chamber Spotlight: Kids’ Christmas needs volunteer help!
You may never have heard about the Kids’ Christmas project, but it’s been a Manchester tradition for many years — harking back to the Optimist (subsequently Civic) Club, then to the Kiwanis assisted by the Lions, and now solely directed by the Manchester Lions Club in conjunction with Manchester Family Service. “We’ve kept it quiet […]
Add some microgreens to your table this winter!
submitted by Ruth VanBogelen, Acorn Farmers’ Market & Café What are microgreens, anyway? They are vegetable greens that differ from sprouts or shoots in that they are harvested shortly after the plants’ true leaves have emerged. Microgreens are often used as a nutritional supplement because they are high in potassium, iron, zinc, magnesium and copper […]
Chamber Spotlight: The Manchester Mirror
Eight years ago this month, in the waning days of the iconic Manchester Enterprise which had suffered through a series of corporate buyouts, a small group of Manchester residents decided to go rogue, test the waters, and see what we could do about returning the focus to a local newspaper. We created an online news […]
Acorn Farmers Market and Café recipe: Mashed celery root
Acorn Farmers Market and Café has celeriac for sale! What is celeriac, besides an opportunity to add an unusual, locally grown vegetable to your diet? It is a root vegetable that tastes like celery, also know as celery root and knob celery. The leaves can be used in salads or as an herb, but the […]
Chamber Spotlight: Old National Bank
Old National Bank’s branch office in Manchester is located in a building that was once a butcher shop, and there are many holes in the exposed brick walls where meat was hung on large hooks. “When it rains, every now and then we get a centipede or two that crawls out of the holes and […]
November 2021 Gardening Advice
submitted by Jennifer Fairfield, Garden Mill and Manchester Community & School Gardens Have you been able to figure out what kind of winter we are going to have, based on what the weather people are saying? I have to admit that I am confused. First, they said it was going to be a really cold […]
