I'm not sure HOW I found this place but have been plotting to somehow, someway make a future road trip to it's Philadelphia area locale. Terrain at Styres is a 6 & 1/2 hour drive from home. I'm dying here folks. DYING! A look through their online catalog will have all gardening lovers in the same yearning state as I. There is a particular event coming up on March 5,2011 which has me all kinds of flustered.
Ellen Ecker Ogden, co-founder of The Cook's Garden seed company. Author of From the Cook's Garden and The Vermont Cheese Book, whom has also written articles for Country Living, Organic Gardening, and the Boston Globe. Will be there to sign her new book "The Complete Kitchen Garden".
Two great things all at once. Her visit and 2 hour event mixed with the location of a Gardeners heaven of wares. Their array of goods has held me for HOURS perusing their pages. Although their Vintage items are ..ummm.... out of my pocket range. a girl can still drift off into gardening dreams. They have sections for the kitchen, Garden & home full of delight and causes of many major weak inducing moments on my end.
Especially in the garden gear department and their Outdoor decor'. "I'll take one of everything, please". If only they would chain out this way.... These kind of places, are not something found around here. I would actually want a job working in their store. Although the paycheck would go right back into their hands. "Can I just work for store credit to use with my {hopefully}hefty employee discount?".Thanks.
Flowering Oregano in metal pot decorated with vine circles. Rustic Boot door knocker
The metal Chicken box nest {gotta find some new ones for the Fancy Farm Girl Style coop}....
Maybe I can use the excuse of buying The Captain's Mushroom log kit while I am there. Maybe the most expensive mushroom kit ever bought {include my one of everything Garden gear plus the trip cost}, but I would be like a kid during their first trip to Disney world. Wide eyed, glazed over dreamy look stumbling around in awe. Not knowing what to do or see first.
Maybe my true desire of gourmet gardening may not be seen as a self sufficient form, but the beauty and divine bliss it would create are not just food for body. It's tending to the mind and soul, which many overlook. Creating your own world in your space for escaping the everyday stress induced by life. Letting go of everything else outside your eden.
Organized. Lush. Healthy and organic.
Picture of Potager garden from Country Living site
Although I most likely will not make the trip, I can purchase her book online and continue my search for vintage garden touches I desire for our home and land with the upcoming estate/fle market bazars season.
Starting with the above boot Knocker I covet for the fancy chicken coop!
Sweet Dreams
~Tammie
***P.S***
My dear readers, I will be down and out until mid next week. Time to get this mean wisdom tooth removed. My too small bottom jaw can not continue housing the invader and will be evicted properly & prompt Monday morning. Please excuse any delays in postings until my thoughts are straight and mouth pain free.
8 comments:
Hope all "comes out" well for you!
I really like that nesting box and that door knocker! I need both of them! Don't know why, I don't even have chickens!
I love bunnies hatching from the eggs picture at the top of your blog! May you have a speedy recovery from your tooth extraction. - kat
I do hope you have a speedy recovery and you really have me intrigued with the company. I am going to check them out!
Hermit Jim~Thank you and I totally agree! That door knocker is only $15 on their site.It caught my eye immediatly as well as the affordable price. I have to wait a few weeks, so hopefully when I have the extra, they will still have one for me. I am hunting for those nest box's. They call it a chicken house on site, but I know it's a nesting box. Hopefully I will find a few affordable ones {vs. their $298 price tag}
Kat~ It was instant love whne I found that picture. I felt it was perfect for the "Unusual Farm Chick" logo. I tweaked it some from the original and am sending the original picture to a cousin who will be trying to duplicate it in a larger form for future purposes with the blog and such.
Thank you for the well wishes. I too am hoping for a speedy recovery and not that dry socket I recieved with the last wisdom tooth removal. ;)
Farmchick~ If you enjoy vintage items and gardening...you will enjoy what you find. I admit the prices are not comfortable for me on most items. But I have found inspiration, relaxing moments and drive for garden season to hurry and arrive from my time looking through their site. I am on the lookout for some close by Bazar/estate/flea market sales for items like theirs. I not only covet that boot knocker but the Half moon plant stand of a $698 price tag. The recent words of my husband "For such a low maintence girl, ya sure have expensive taste." lol.
I went this past spring while I was up there. It was super fantastic Posted on it here. http://compostinmyshoe.blogspot.com/2010/06/spell-that-is-terrain.html Hope you get there soon and post about your finds!!!
What a fabulous event! I checked out the link to that shop and I love it all! I need to start some garden seedlings soon too.
I wish you a speedy recovery from your tooth extraction.
Thanks for your sweet comment about my headboard.
xoxo
Amanda
Hope your recovery from your tooth extraction is a speedy one. A sore mouth is no fun!
Blessings~
Thank you for the wll wishes. I appologize for not responding sooner. Our computer screen has been acting up, which limits my use of it.
It's funny how something as what would seem a tooth, would have such effect on ones body. My high cheebone is more refined as it was in my youth and my despite being a bottom wisdom tooth, my sinuses are more clear. A slight earache is hanging around but the pressure of the tooth on the jaw muscle had a chain reaction to so much, I am sure the release of it's spot is setting things back.
Now to start preparing that tutorial since I have a new monitor...
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