Jill Clair Gentry
Out of the Blueberry
For 35 years, Tynes Stringfellow ran a successful landscaping company, and he was ready to retire. Four years ago, he and his wife, Sally, ...
Urban Eden
Just like plants, community gardens need the right conditions to grow and produce. In 2011, Matt Armbruster felt led to establish one such plot in West...
Couture Oysters
Oyster bar menus in metropolitan areas nationwide feature choice mollusks from the East and West coasts, and Gulf oysters are on their way to those menus, ...
Something's Brewing
As a teenager, if you told me one day I’d become one of those beer-drinking girls, I would have scoffed at your ability to predict the future. As...
Bread Mavens
Baking bread in a tiny cottage in rural Baldwin County seems like a romantic way to make a living, and for Jane Holland Smith and her husband...
15 Top Local Eats
Fairhope Inn (Fairhope)
You don’t have to travel to a metropolitan area to find sophisticated fine dining. A world-class chef is serving top-notch cuisine just down the road at the Fairhope...
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A Head of the Game
In Alabama, like most of North America, January isn’t a particularly fruitful time of year. The landscape is mostly bare, and farmers’ markets are boarded...
Farm to Fork
The first meal my husband, Scott, and I shared was a sloppy bowl of Hamburger Helper I made in a $10 pan in the community kitchen...