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Garden Dialogues Explore Synergy Between Designer And Client

Salisbury estate. Photo: Larry Weaner Landscape Associates, courtesy The Cultural Landscape Foundation. By Lisa Green Thanks to the myriad of house and garden tours and “open days" throughout our region, garden aficionados have fairly frequent access to some magnificent private gardens. There, the artful landscapes self describe the what

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Dispatch From The Garden: Color...And Not

The Rural Intelligence region is fortunate to have so many gardening experts close by. Our garden writer, Madaline Sparks, is the principal in her own design, installation and maintenance business, Madaline Sparks Garden Design, with clients in Columbia and Berkshire counties. For 12 years she was the contributing garden editor

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A Beautiful Shade Of Green

The Rural Intelligence region is fortunate to have so many gardening experts close by. Our garden writer, Madaline Sparks, is the principal in her own design, installation and maintenance business, Madaline Sparks Garden Design, with clients in Columbia and Berkshire counties. For 12 years she was the contributing garden editor

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Amble And Admire The View: Kinderhook Garden Stroll

By Lisa Green Kinderhook, New York loves its Dutch ancestry. To quote ourselves, “Kinderhook has an embarrassment of riches when it comes to historical architecture." We’ve previously written about the town’s more famous buildings. But this being garden tour season, Kinderhook wants to introduce visitors to a

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'Books & Blooms' Garden Tour Crosses The Cornwalls

By Lisa Green We know, from posting countless listings over the years, that books and gardens loom large in the lives of Rural Intelligence readers. And when those two subjects are combined in one event, as they are in The Cornwall (Conn.) Library’s annual summer benefit and garden tour,

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House And Barn Preservation Expo: Advice From The Experts

Resources at last year's expo: interior finishes, walls and floor coverings; how to reuse old barn wood; roofing slates; early hand-forged and machine-forged hardware. Photo: Historic Red Hook. By Lisa Green Congratulations. You’ve just bought an old house or barn. Or maybe you’re ready to tackle

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Braza In Our Back Yard: Home to Fashion Emergency Solutions

By Lisa Green I’m not positive about this, but it’s extremely probable that some of those celebrities you see on the red carpet are wearing a Braza Bra product, and that’s not an interesting fact just because the products are the kinds of things that prevent wardrobe

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RADC: A Warehouse Of Treasures At Hudson's River Side

Shelina's By Jamie Larson Hudson's position as a world-class destination for great art and antiques is well deserved. But as its stature has risen briskly over the past 20 years, an ever-increasing percentage of the city’s old eccentric vibe (which drew artists and dealers to

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A Scattershot Of Spring Thoughts

The Rural Intelligence region is fortunate to have so many gardening experts close by. Our garden writer, Madaline Sparks, is the principal in her own design, installation and maintenance business, Madaline Sparks Garden Design, with clients in Columbia and Berkshire counties. For 12 years she was the contributing garden editor

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Get Ready For Trade Secrets, Our Very Own Garden Of Eden

Bromeliads dazzle at the booth of grower David Burdick's Daffodils and More. Photo: Stephanie Stanton Photography. By Madaline Sparks If you have never been to Trade Secrets, the annual two-day garden event in the Litchfield Hills, really try to make a point to go this year. It is

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GreenBuilt Insulates Homes From Harm...With Hemp

By Jamie Larson Hemp — genetically distinct from its sister plant, marijuana — has long been used for paper, textiles and organic body care. But now GreenBuilt, a Columbia County company, is using hemp plants to create an eco-friendly and startlingly efficient building material called Hempcrete. The versatile material, unfortunately, has endured

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BerkChique! Is Back

By Marilyn Bethany Berkshires fashion icon Vicki Bonnington will begin planning next year’s BerkChique!, a charity clothing sale she co-chairs with Rebecca Weinman, as soon as this year’s (May 6 - 8 at the former Crane Stationery factory in Dalton, Mass.) wraps. As Bonnington, whose cast-offs last year

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