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"When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path" (Psalm 142:3a).
We should have never started on our three-hour trip home after attending my oldest daughter's college graduation. The farther we traveled, the lower the visibility became from the blinding snow. Eventually, we couldn't see the road at all. Since turning back was just as far as traveling to the next town, we continued down the road. The close homeschooling relationship between my husband and son was soon to be tested. Sticking his head out the passenger window to see the white line on the road's edge, my son started giving directions to my husband and said, "Move a little left" or "Move a little right." For the next hour, my husband put his total faith in my son's navigation and literally drove blind in the raging blizzard.
Trusting the Lord when you can't see the way through life's difficulties is even a greater challenge than a blinding snow storm. Emotional pain and hardships blind you to God's love and rob you of your faith. You are tempted to believe that God has left you, and you doubt His loving care. Instead of trusting in His promises, you try to escape the pain on your own and fail to stay in the middle of His will. Trusting in your own human understanding, you head for the ditch and destruction.
Is homeschooling testing your faith in God in a way you never imagined? Are you wondering why He started you down the path of teaching your children when it is so difficult to see the daily obstacles and hazards? God knows what lies ahead, and He will tell you if you need to move a little left or right. He hasn't abandoned you and promises to help with parenting problems, financial problems, and even loneliness. Homeschooling works — don't give up the faith! "That the trial of your faith, being much more precious than of gold that perisheth, though it be tried with fire, might be found unto praise and honour and glory at the appearing of Jesus Christ" (1 Peter 1:7).
Father, I cry out to You for help with my homeschooling. I am lost and need Your guidance. Show me the way, so Your perfect will is accomplished in my children's lives. In Jesus' name, Amen.
"When my spirit was overwhelmed within me, then thou knewest my path" (Psalm 142:3a).

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In wake of Supreme Court ruling, 37 college groups issue declaration on educational value of having a diverse student body.
The U.S. Senate on Thursday passed, 68-32, an immigration reform bill with several provisions sought by higher education leaders. The bill would create a path to citizenship for those who are in the United States without documentation to permit them to reside in the country, and provisions would be of particular help to students who were brought to the United States as children. Many colleges have pushed for such a change, saying that these students never sought to break a law, and that they have completed high school in the United States, only to face difficulty being admitted to or receiving aid for higher education. Other provisions would ease the visa process for some international students and make it easier for American colleges and universities to hire some professors from abroad. President Obama praised the legislation, but Republican leaders in the House of Representatives have vowed not to allow a vote in that chamber on the bill. Rather the Republican leaders have said that they would draft their own bill, and it is unclear how the provisions of importance to colleges would fare in that version.
The Supreme Court this week decided Fisher v. University of Texas. It did not decide, as many had expected, what the future affirmative action in American higher education would be. Instead, the Court punted, putting off for a future day any definitive ruling on the rules of engagement for affirmative action.
Fisher did not launch a wholesale challenge to the Grutter ruling, but instead framed her case in a more measured manner, arguing that whether Grutter was right or wrong, it ought not apply when a state has demonstrated that a race-neutral alternative exists, such as the 10 percent system. In response, Texas argued that the 10 percent system did not achieve sufficient diversity, either quantitatively or qualitatively, to vindicate its compelling interests in achieving a more diverse student body.
None of the advocates would supply a crisp answer. Donald Verrilli, the solicitor general for the administration of President Obama, gave it a noble try, eloquently defending the pursuit of critical mass with the argument that our national "strength comes from people of different races, different creeds, different cultures, uniting in a commitment to freedom, and to more a perfect union." To enrich the educational experience of students at American universities, to expose them to a variety of fellow students from diverse races, ethnic groups, religions, cultures, nations, or life experiences, there must be enough of each group in the mix to both make the cross-exposure meaningful. In turn, a critical mass of representation is required to ward off the damage to minority students that might ensue from the tokenism and isolation incident to small numbers.
The skeptics, however, seemed unmoved by the lofty articulation of the goal and unpersuaded by the logic of its execution. Again, much of what surfaced today in the Court's formal opinion was presaged during the oral argument. Chief Justice John Roberts repeatedly asked how the Supreme Court could do its job of deciding whether the pursuit of a critical mass was constitutional if Texas refused to explain how it knew when it had achieved critical mass. Moreover, since Texas relied entirely on an applicant's self-description of racial or ethnic identity, how did Texas even know what the identity of its enrolled students were? If an applicant is 1/8 Hispanic, Roberts asked, did Texas regard it as ethically permissible to check the box "Hispanic" on the application? What if the student was 1/32 Hispanic? Justice Scalia wanted to know if it was a classroom-by-classroom determination. In a deeply uncomfortable moment, Texas conceded that it did not need to prime the pump to enroll more students of Asian descent, as their numbers were already robust, a point that the skeptics saw as approaching a system of racial spoils. Justice Alito thus asked whether critical mass varied by ethnic group. Why, he asked, did Texas lump together all Asian Americans? Was Texas confident, he continued, that it had a critical mass of Filipino Americans? Cambodian Americans?
What the skeptics seemed to be suggesting was that "mass" was indeed a "mask," a euphemism employed to avoid what has long been constitutionally forbidden, the simplistic use of race for race's sake, a "mirror" conception of equal justice in which, in rough-and-ready terms, critical mass is not deemed achieved until the representation of minorities in institutions such as the University of Texas generally approximates their representation in the polity as a whole. Thus Justice Alito asked pointedly, whether the definition of critical mass in Texas would be different from the definition in neighboring New Mexico.
If the skeptics were troubled by meaning of critical mass, however, they were equally troubled by the meaning of holistic. And here, in many ways, the arguments cut more deeply. The ideal of holistic admissions has an impressive lineage. This was the approach advanced by Harvard University and other Ivy League institutions in the Bakke case. In Grutter, five Justices, led by Justice Sandra Day O'Connor, made the permissibility of holistic admissions the formal law of the land, though Justice O'Connor's opinion ended with the suggestion that this might only be acceptable for another 25 years.
Despite the beautiful promise of these arguments, however, the skeptics clearly doubted that the universities really mean it, or really mean it the way they say they mean it. No one on the Supreme Court seemed doubtful of the potential benefits of a holistic approach to admissions that did not bringing race or ethnicity into the picture. The doubt was engendered by the suspicion that when universities include race and ethnicity, the holistic ideals become compromised and adulterated by other pressures within the rankings hierarchy of higher education, pressures that push universities toward efforts to get the right additional minority students and the right kind of those minority students. Why did Texas really augment the 10 percent system with its holistic race-conscious admissions program? Was it because it did not get enough minority students from the 10 percent regime, or was it because the students it got under the 10 percent program were not, in the eyes of Texas, good enough?
On this point, in one of the most awkward moments in the oral argument, the justices struggled with what to make of an African-American applicant who was the child of two well-educated, successful and affluent professionals. Should or should not such an applicant be the beneficiary of racial "plus points" in the admissions process? What all the justices surely knew, whatever side they might be on, was that such an applicant is typically perceived as highly desirable by universities, because the applicant helps on the numbers in two ways, improving the both the university's diversity and academic profiles. When the advocate for Texas suggested that Texas needed such affluent minorities as a diversity counterpoint to the minorities generated by the 10 percent system, which were heavily composed of students from entirely minority-race schools from poorer, less academically elite circumstances, Justice Alito blanched, as if this were a duplicitous betrayal of the blue collar roots of affirmative action, an elitist bait-and-switch. "I thought that the whole purpose of affirmative action," he lamented, "was to help students who come from underprivileged backgrounds."
Tellingly, the issue also troubled Justice Kennedy, who emerged as the author of this week's opinion. He seemed turned off by such unabashed race-consciousness, asserting that for Texas, "what counts is race above all." This, Kennedy, claimed, was the necessary conclusion to be drawn from Texas' answer to Justice Alito's questions. "You want underprivileged of a certain race and privileged of a certain race," Kennedy observed. "So that's race."
To all these Supreme Court skeptics, the term "holistic" appears to have taken more the hue of universities wanting to have their cake and eat it too. Universities want the highest possible academic credentials, which works to enhance their reputations and rankings, yet they also wanted the highest possible diversity numbers. Adding to the skeptics' suspicion was the problem of how these holistic reviews, as a practical matter, are really undertaken. Justice Scalia thus inquired, with only thinly disguised facetiousness, how many people a ruling against affirmative action would put out of a job, since Texas must have employed a huge number of people in its admissions office to process all these highly individualized holistic reviews.
We will surely hear alternative narratives emerge on the meaning of this week's ruling. Some will say that it portends that affirmative action is hanging by a thread. Others may characterize it as affirming the framework adopted in Grutter.
One point, however, seems clear: the holistic approach to admissions that most in higher education have embraced for decades is under ever-increasing legal stress. In Grutter, Justice O'Connor's opinion suggested that the clock may run out on race-conscious admissions after 25 years — or 2028. This week's ruling, at the very least, signals that universities should begin to seriously prepare for a much sooner date.
Contemplating that possibility, a holistic approach to admissions may be imagined that does not include any injection of consideration of race or ethnicity. A university might adopt an approach to admissions that is "holistic" in the simple sense that it is not single-mindedly driven by the academic numbers, such as test scores, grade point averages, or Advanced Placement courses. Leadership, altruism, civic engagement, public service, passion for social justice, creativity, entrepreneurial spirit, resiliency, drive, ambition, the capacity to overcome adversity, all the polymath possibilities that might comprise true grit, could be included in a student's evaluation, factors resonant in their connection to our most romantic renditions of the American dream.
And indeed, the vast majority of American universities that employ race-conscious holistic admissions programs claim that race is simply one ingredient spicing this richer bouillabaisse. For those institutions that really believe that these character traits enhance the quality of a student body, the Constitution of the United States, as now redefined by the Supreme Court, stands as no impediment. And whatever one's politics, one's views of affirmative action, one's views of the competing narratives explaining Fisher, an admissions system that includes some flexibility to reward grit will be a good thing for higher education and for society, fully resonant with the ever-evolving reinterpretation of the most enduring traditions of the American Dream.
Rod Smolla, a constitutional law scholar, is president of Furman University. He is the author of The Constitution Goes to College: Five Constitutional Ideas That Have Shaped the American University (NYU Press).
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Babson College will today formally apologize to Brandeis University for an anti-Semitic incident in 1978, The Boston Globe reported. When the two institutions competed in a soccer game that year, some Babson players placed a sign in their gym that said "Happy Holocaust," while others wore swastikas to practice and yelled "Holocaust" and anti-Semitic phrases at one another. In addition to apologizing, Babson will work with the Anti-Defamation League to train students to study and oppose anti-Semitism and other forms of bigotry.
Students who attend "early college" high schools are more likely to graduate, enroll in college and obtain associate degrees than their peers, says a new study.
Colleges have special responsibilities to support young parents and pregnant students under Title IX of the Education Amendment of 1972, the U.S. Education Department's Office for Civil Rights said in a "Dear Colleague" letter Tuesday. The letter is an update and expansion of previous guidance issued on the topic in 1991. The letter cites studies saying that only 2 percent of women who had a child before the age of 18 earned a degree by 30, and notes that Title IX prohibits discrimination of these students in any educational program, including extracurricular activities. OCR sent the letter -- along with a pamphlet of guidelines, strategies and best practices to support pregnant and parenting -- to all colleges.
New federal designation for institutions that serve Asian-American and Pacific Islander students could significantly aid low-income students in those groups, a study finds --- but funding for those colleges lags.
Supreme Court's decision produces a mixed but muted reaction among students at the University of Texas at Austin, with many expecting a more definitive ruling.
When admissions committees at selective colleges choose from among thousands of applicants, nearly all of whom have the credentials to do the work, they are doing exactly what they are charged to do: assembling a qualified, diverse student body. The Bakke and Grutter Supreme Court rulings sanctioned this approach; common sense dictates it; and no anecdotal horror stories or isolated allegations can change this central fact.
There is no evidence that whites are displaced in the process, and those few who are affected likely have many alternatives, as Abigail Fisher did when she was admitted into Louisiana State University after she failed to get into the University of Texas at Austin. Her grades and class standing did not get her admitted even with two bites at the apple -- she did not qualify for the percent plan (under which top students from Texas high schools are admitted), and she was not admitted under the UT holistic review process. Using Bakke and Grutter reasonably, the surprise is not that the system works fitfully, but that it works so well in light of the current crush of applicants and costs of applying. Bakke's carefully nuanced opinion by Justice Powell has proven surprisingly resilient and supple over the intervening decades, even with the attempts at revisionism by Fifth Circuit judges and unyielding conservative organizations that characterize whites as hapless victims.
Grutter's rule of law ensured that affirmative action remains a vital tool in admissions. As demographic changes occur and historical discriminatory practices are changed, the argument that race preferences in admissions are necessary to combat the vestiges of racial discrimination will likely lose its force. Few legislatures are likely to confess racial prejudice or to acknowledge it in their state agencies.
However, aggrieved Anglo plaintiffs and their organizations will not be appeased and will continue to make the unsuccessful argument that even the slight use of race is unconstitutional.
As one of the responses to Hopwood, in which an appeals court ruled that public universities in Texas could not consider race in admissions, and in light of the enrollment damage evident to its undergraduate programs and professional schools, the Texas Legislature enacted a race-neutral program, the Texas Top Ten Percent Plan, in 1997. This plan allowed all graduates of the state's high schools to attend any public college, provided that the applicant had graduated in the top 10 percent of his or her class. This provision broadened the number of schools that sent students to the state's public colleges, particularly to the University of Texas at Austin, and all internal UT studies and other scholarship have revealed that full-time, first-time freshmen admitted under the Top Ten Percent Plan remained enrolled longer, performed better, and graduated in greater numbers than did their non-plan counterparts.
Indeed, the plan became so successful that it threatened to swamp the Austin campus. As a result, the legislature reluctantly granted an escape valve at UT-Austin to trim back admissions under the percentage plan to the top 7 percent of high school graduates in the state. Since its inception, this plan had no racial component; while it mitigated some of the earlier Hopwood losses, its participants were of all races, predominantly whites, who recently constituted more than half the percent plan admittees, even though whites are less than a third of Texas K-12 enrollments. Even so, in Fisher v. University of Texas, another generation of white applicants sued the university, arguing in a 2008 federal district court case and a 2011 circuit appeal that, with the percentage plan in use, the university should not be permitted to use the tools that Grutter had constitutionalized.
In effect, the suit – the basis for Monday's Supreme Court ruling – argued that if colleges can find some way to get a little diversity, they need to settle for that, and not attempt to bring greater diversity to campus. Never mind that over half the percent pan admits have been white, in a state where half the schoolchildren are not white. "Critical mass" has to mean something different in New Hampshire than it does in Texas.
Not only were some members of the appeals court distressed that the percent plan had been implemented, but in a special concurrence with the decision rejecting Fisher's suit, Circuit Judge Emilio M. Garza wrote to show his special disdain even for Grutter: "Today, we follow Grutter's lead in finding that the University of Texas's race-conscious admissions program satisfies the court's unique application of strict scrutiny in the university admissions context. I concur in the majority opinion, because, despite my belief that Grutter represents a digression in the course of constitutional law, today's opinion is a faithful, if unfortunate, application of that misstep. The Supreme Court has chosen this erroneous path and only the court can rectify the error. In the meantime, I write separately to underscore this detour from constitutional first principles."
In this round of deciding the constitutionality of Texas public college admissions standards, the circuit was once again calling into question the legitimacy of the Supreme Court's decision-making, as it had done in Hopwood, even as it followed its requirements in this instance. What is extraordinary is that no legal challenge to the percent plan or even to Grutter was on the table. On their own gag reflexes, they choked.
Minorities with real grievances, such as racially profiled Mexican-origin citizens in Arizona, gerrymandered black and Latino voters in Southern states, and even majority educators in Louisville and Seattle who tried to desegregate schools -- these claims are stonewalled and denied by this conservative Supreme Court, but the inadmissible applicant Fisher is encouraged that she was somehow deserving of yet another bite at the apple, even as she was not admitted under her own power and merits. She, like so many before her, is convinced that her inability to be admitted was surely due to a lesser-deserving minority having taken HER place.
Now that whites are a shrinking number and percentage of the school population and polity, this racial calculus is sure to soar, and whites will aggressively and purposively seek "minority legal protection."
Should Fisher win her case down the road, they will find no safe harbor, and will feel the stinging accusations, that they made it due to special pleading and do not deserve the leg up. For now, with Fisher, the Supreme Court has vacated and remanded the appeals court ruling: "The reviewing court must ultimately be satisfied that no workable race-neutral alternatives would produce the educational benefits of diversity." The Supreme Court ordered the appeals court to reconsider the key holding of Grutter -- that any plan be narrowly tailored. As I had feared, they appear to have misapprehended the percent plan, which is race-neutral and resulted in over half its admits being Anglos, else the case would not still be in play, as UT's plan is operationally like the Michigan Law School plan, which the Supreme Court backed 10 year ago.
I assisted the late Texas State Rep. Irma Rangel in the drafting of the percent plan, a tremendous success, and it was race-neutral. It is sad that such a plan as operationalized has occasioned such misunderstanding, even by Justice Ginsburg in her dissent, and given aggrieved Anglo plaintiffs more occasions to assume that if they are not admitted, it must have been due to a lesser-deserving minority taking their place. This did not happen here, and the Circuit should uphold its earlier ruling.
To the extent that race is accounted for in the process, it should be one of many considerations: I have argued that Justice Powell's opinion was the correct route for the Supreme Court to follow when it took up Bakke's progeny, and Grutter had settled that issue for the foreseeable future.
The use of affirmative action in college admissions has been the constitutional law of the land as determined by the U.S. Supreme Court at least since 1978. But having conservatives, and especially federal judges, cursing the darkness does not help matters; one can only ask why conservative organizations continue to litigate settled matters and to protest, methinks, too much. Under traditional rules of civil procedure, before one can go to court, there must be a demonstrable harm to be remedied, and the admissions evidence clearly shows that whites are not harmed by affirmative action in the aggregate.
There are substantial civil penalties for litigants frivolously employing federal courts to bring unwarranted or inappropriate actions, and the jurisprudence of admissions challenges on race -- Bakke in 1978, affirmed by Grutter in 2003, and now Fisher in 2013, should the narrow-tailoring be upheld -- will have been resolved to the point where these sanctions should be leveled at such future claims.
Michael A. Olivas is a professor of law at the University of Houston. This essay is adapted from his new book, Suing Alma Mater: Higher Education and the Courts (Johns Hopkins University Press).
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Summery Seeds
Today was a beautiful day at the farm and we were so lucky to have some lovely people to share it with! As the season winds down for us here at the farm, we are planting cover crop seeds for the summer, replacing the crops that nourished us for the last several months: tomatoes, cucumbers, patty pan squash, watermelon, cushaws, beans and so much more!
Some of our weird experiments this year are still going strong and giving us things to look forward to like the African Horned Melon, a giant 10ft. tall luffah wall, bottle gourds and a some other odds and ends in the legume family.
The Seminole squash are going nuts as they like to do (my all-time favorite thing to grow and eat!), the Everglades tomatoes are heating up now that a real Florida summer is here, and our peppers are starting to produce.
Today we harvested all kinds of goodies that we will enjoy and save seeds from, to offer to our Southern Heritage Seed Collective members next spring. Cosmos, marigolds, zinnias, cowpeas, Seminole squash, Jamaican cushaw, Ali Baba watermelon and Everglades tomato.
The great thing is that we get to share this bounty with our friends and family, empowering them to save seeds too.
Next week, I am heading off to camp out at the Seed Savers Exchange farm in Decorah, Iowa for two whole weeks! I can't wait to live and work with some of the most dedicated seed savers in the country and bring back to the south whatever information I can. It is our mission to provide the best possible seeds for our community that thrive in our climate and nourish the body and mind!
Peas out.
School's Out Festival – June 6th
Join Forage and First Magnitude Brewing Company on June 6th from 11am-3pm for the Third Annual School's Out Local Food and Music Festival, a celebration of the beginning of summer and everything that makes our community great.
Great fun for the whole family including bounce houses, arts and crafts, live music, great beer, local food vendors, activities with local organizations, and much more! Enter into the watermelon seed spitting contest to win fun prizes and test your seed-spitting skills or buy a drawing ticket to win one of the many door prizes provided by local businesses and organizations. Bring the whole family but PLEASE leave your pets at home!
Tickets on sale now – 5$ for kids, 10$ for adults, and $30 family pass (2 adults and up to 4 kids)! Click here to purchase!
Featuring food from:
Humble Pie Gainesville
Sweet Dreams of Gainesville FL.
FED Food Company
The Cookie Parlor
ChewBox Co.
Sara's Seasonings
Enjoy live music by:
Corporal Captain
Boiling Oil
Endless Pools
Michael Claytor
The Swamp Cats
Parking for event is on Main St – Backstage Lounge and Winn Dixie have offered up their lots. Please park there and enter the event at the entrance to First Magnitude that is accessible from Main St. It is just South of the 11th Block, and next to Continental Imports.
Thanks to our sponsors – First magnitude Brewing Co., Bouncing Big, and Lucky's Market!
All proceeds benefit Forage Farm's programming and community efforts. For more information and updates, visit https://www.facebook.com/events/865765470148157/.
Join us June 6th and take a bite out of summer!
Wildflower Field Day May 2nd 11am-2pm
Join us at Forage Farm for a fun and informative day all about native wildflowers and pollinators!
10-11am: Terry Zinn from the Florida Wildflower Cooperative "10 Easy Wildflowers Presentation and Field Walk" followed by a demo of a wildflower seed harvester. Forage planted a wildflower meadow last fall and things are sprouting! See an early successional field and learn how to establish a wildflower garden at home!
11-12pm: Dr. Cory Stanley- Stahr "Wild Pollinators" talk. Learn about the importance of wild pollinators and what you can do to help support their populations.
12-1pm: Wild pollinator house building workshop. Suggested $20 fee, email firstname.lastname@example.com reserve your spot. On-site sign ups will be first come first serve depending on materials available.
12-1pm: DIY seed balls with native wildflowers.
Ongoing kids activities: scavenger hunt, painting and more! Wildflower seeds and plants will be for sale, all proceeds benefiting the programs of Forage!
The Farm is located on the beautiful Prairie Creek Preserve -7204 SE CR 234. Please do not use GPS it is incorrect. You can find it on google maps, or print the map located here.
The Conch March Theme: Gardening and Farming
Come join Forage as we partner up with The Conch-Gainesville's True-storytelling Project, Swallowtail Farm, The Porters Community Garden, and Florida Organic Growers to share our stories on the theme, "Gardening and Farming." We know we've all had those funny, frightening, fun, and freeing times while we're out doing what we love most: working with dirt and food! Come on out for a great time, some good food, and very relatable stories.
When: Tuesday, March 3rd, 7-9pm
Where: Lightnin' Salvage (the back area of Satchel's Pizza)
Visit our partners' websites here:
Porters Community Farm
Swallowtail Farm
Florida Certified Organic Growers and Consumers
Farm to School to Work Program
The Alachua County Farm to School to Work Program located at Loften High School is a place where students can learn about the food system by experiencing it. What began as a joint venture between the Food and Nutrition Department (FNS) and the Exceptional Student Education Department (ESE) of the Alachua County Public Schools has grown into a vegetable-producing machine, providing 150 heads of lettuce weekly for use in school salads, as well as a number of other vegetables appearing on the weekly menus. Students are gaining horticultural skills and are able to interact with each other and the community in an empowering way. The Farm to School to Work Hub is working, and students are receiving valuable training in horticulture, food production, food safety, and nutrition.
Forage is proud to be a collaborator on this project. With the support of the community, we can continue to make it bigger, better, and impact even more students and families in an incredible way.
Spring and Summer Seed Collection
The last seed distribution date is THIS Saturday February 28th
10am-1pm at Highlands Presbyterian Church
This year we've done something a little different. To encourage seed saving of rare southern heirlooms, we have provided some great varieties for you to try. However, most of them are not available in sufficient quantity to serve every single member. We ask that if you select one of these, that you take our pledge to try and save seed from it for the next season. Enough for you and enough to give back to our collection. They are all fairly easy seeds to save and we'll tell you all you need to know in order to do it. This way, we can start proliferating our own local source! We think you will really like these varieties, and the rewards of becoming a seed steward for southern heirlooms. Remember, as you're planning your garden, only take what you think you will actually plant this season, to ensure everyone gets seeds!
We have cover crop seeds! Try out some Iron Clay Cowpeas available in 1/2lb increments to use as a cover crop this summer. We are asking an additional $1 per 1/2lb.
We have a new greenhouse and got excited about the idea of offering tomatoes and peppers as transplants. This gives you a significant jump-start to the season, for two of the most challenging seeds to start. Each organically grown 6 pack will be $3. Hooray! This is an experiment and we were unsure of demand, so bear with us as we try this out. Mid to end of March is when we predict they will be ready. We'll be sure to email you if you're on our list, and make an announcement on Facebook.
DOWNLOAD AVAILABILITY LIST to see what is still left, and read the detailed descriptions in our SEED CATALOG.
JOIN NOW or join at one of our events below.
Highlands Presbyterian Church is located at 1001 NE 16th Ave. We are in the large main room that is immediately to your right when you walk in the main doors.
Forage has signed "The Safe Seed Pledge"!"Agriculture and seeds provide the basis upon which our lives depend. We must protect this foundation as a safe and genetically stable source for future generations. For the benefit of all farmers, gardeners and consumers who want an alternative, we pledge that we do not knowingly buy or sell genetically engineered seeds or plants. The mechanical transfer of genetic material outside of natural reproductive methods and between genera, families or kingdoms poses great biological risks, as well as economic, political and cultural threats. We feel that genetically engineered varieties have been insufficiently tested prior to public release. More research and testing is necessary to further assess the potential risks of genetically engineered seeds. Further, we wish to support agricultural progress that leads to healthier soils, genetically diverse agricultural ecosystems and ultimately healthy people and communities."
"I Love Local Food" Week 2015
Join Forage, Blue Oven Kitchens, Florida Organic Growers, and other members of the Alachua County Nutrition Alliance as we celebrate "I Love Local Food" Week February 14-21st, 2015. There will be great events, designed to support efforts to build our local food system and to connect you with the resources you need to love making local food a part of your diet and be a part of the "Eat Local Challenge" in May. If you have any questions, want more information about an event, or have an event you would like to add to the line up, please see the contact listed or email Anna at email@example.com.
"I Love Local Food" Week Events
Saturday, Feb. 14th
Native Pollinators 101 and Bee Box Building
10 am-1 pm at Forage Farm 7204 SE County Road 234
Forage Farm and Alachua Conservation Trust are wild about native pollinators! Come learn about these awesome insects and what you can do to help them thrive! Dr. Cory Stanley-Stahr from the University of Florida Honey Bee Research and Extension Laboratory will enlighten us, then afterward (if you chose), we'll head outside to our shop. We'll have all the fixins for you to build and take home an outdoor wooden nesting box! The talk is free, but if you wish to take home a box, we suggest you donate $20 to the cause. RSVP is a must, reserve your spot now by REGISTERING HERE.
Eat Local and Healthy for Your Heart Cooking Demonstration
9:30-10:30 am at the Alachua County Farmers Market, 5920 Northwest 13th Street.
Seasonal Salad and Strawberry Lemonade Cooking Demonstration, hosted by Hogtown HomeGrown and Florida Organic Growers. Join Stefanie Hamblen from Hogtown Homegrown for a cooking demonstration using local fennel, spinach, pecans, lemons, honey, citrus and strawberries. Learn how to use the freshest ingredients available to make healthy, delicious, affordable meals. The demonstration is free and open to the public. For more information, email email@example.com or visit www.hogtownhomegrown.com.
Local Love Dinner
6-9 pm at The Vine Bread and Pasta 627 N. Main Street
Treat yourself and your valentine to a fresh, local dinner prepared with love by the Farm Kitchen Collective. All proceeds benefit local non-profits, Blue Oven Kitchens and Forage. Tickets $40, for more information email firstname.lastname@example.com. You may REGISTER HERE! Limited spaces available, get your ticket before it's too late!
Mushrooms for Food and Medicine Workshop
Sunday February 15, 4pm, Little Orange Creek Nature Park, Hawthorne
Join Mycol Stevens and Oliver Moore in a two-day mushroom intensive following the Florida Earth Skills Gathering. The intensive will cover the basics of what mushrooms are, how they are made, their physical and chemical attributes and their function as food and medicine. Mushroom identification will be a large part of the course and cultivation techniques will be introduced. To register and find out more information, visit www.floridaearthskills.org/
Sunday, Feb. 15th
Community Gleaning, hosted by Gainesville Harvest.
Have trees bending under the weight of fresh fruit you don't need? Have a garden brimming with veggies and not sure how to use all the bounty in your yard? Or, perhaps you want to help glean from local yards around town to donate to families in need? Either way, contact Pat Abbitt at firstname.lastname@example.com, and let her know how you can help!
Cinema Verde Film Festival
The Cinema Verde Film Festival has several food-themed films in its amazing line up! Check out "Just Eat It" at Noon, "Of The Land" at 1:30 pm, Terra Firma at 6pm, or Food Chains at 7:30 on February 15th! See the full line up and get more information on tickets and locations at www.cinemaverde.org.
Monday, Feb. 16th
Vegetable Garden Seed Distribution
6-8 pm at Highlands Presbyterian Church 1001 NW 16th Ave.
Join the Southern Heritage Seed Collective and get locally saved seed and the best varieties for our region to start your spring garden.
Tuesday, Feb. 17th
Porter's Community Farm Volunteer Workday
8am-12 pm at 518 SW 3rd Street.
Join fellow community members to help Florida Organic Growers grow fresh, healthy veggies for the local community and for the St. Francis House Shelter. For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com or visit www.foginfo.org.
Frog Song Organics Special Farm Tour for Chefs
3pm at Frog Song Farm, 4317 NE US Highway, Hawthorne, FL
This farm tour is open to professional chefs. Reservations are required by emailing firstname.lastname@example.com with your name and business contact information by 2/15/15
Wednesday, Feb. 18th
Eat Local and Healthy for Your Heart Cooking Demonstrations
4:00-5:00pm at the Union Street Farmers Market 111 East University Ave.
Cabbage Stir Fry recipe will be demonstrated and samples provided as the UF/IFAS Extension Family Nutrition Program share how to grocery shop smarter, use nutrition information to make healthy choices, and cook delicious, affordable meals with local ingredients. This demonstration is free and open to the public. For more information about the Family Nutrition Program visit http://fycs.ifas.ufl.edu/Extension/HNFS/FNP/.
5:30-6:30pm at the Union Street Farmers Market 111 East University Ave.
Seasonal Salad and Strawberry Lemonade Cooking Demonstration, hosted by Hogtown HomeGrown and Florida Organic Growers. Join Stefanie Hamblen from Hogtown Homegrown for a cooking demonstration using local fennel, spinach, pecans, lemons, honey, citrus and strawberries. Learn how to use the freshest ingredients available to make healthy, delicious, affordable meals. The demonstration is free and open to the public. For more information, email email@example.com or visit www.hogtownhomegrown.com.
Vegetable Garden Seed Distribution
4-7 pm at Union Street Farmers Market 111 East University Ave.
Join the Southern Heritage Seed Collective and get locally saved seed and the best varieties for our region to start your spring garden.
Thursday, Feb. 19th
Host a local food potluck!
Any meal time at your home, a local park, or your office break room.
Challenge your friends, neighbors, and/or colleagues to prepare a dish with local products, and enjoy a meal together!
Friday, Feb. 20th
Local Food Tasting Night
4:30-7:30 pm at First Magnitude Brewing Company – 1220 Southeast Veitch Street.
Join Blue Oven Kitchens, Forage and First Magnitude to try a taste of North Florida as we sample everything from pickles to chocolate made by local food entrepreneurs. For more information on how to be a vendor at the Tasting, contact Anna at email@example.com.
Saturday, Feb. 21st
Seed Starting Workshop
10-11:30 am at the Downtown Farmers Garden – 12 SE 1st. St.
Florida Organic Growers and Forage will teach you how to grow garden plants from seed. They will review the basic concepts you need to be successful, while demonstrating two techniques: soil blocking and using trays/cells. The workshop is free. For more information contact Melissa, email@example.com
French Cooking Class
11:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the Alachua County Extension Office – 2800 NE 39th Ave.
Seeds, Skills and Classes for 2015!
Free Compost Workshop
Saturday January 10, 2015 from 10am-12pm
Downtown Farmers Garden, 12 SE 1st. St. On the SW corner of the Alachua County Administration Building lawn. Near Main St. and University Ave.
Learn the principles of composting, like how to make black garden gold in under 2 months, the tools you can use, one secret to kickstart a new compost pile that can save you 3 to 6 months, how to make the most of finished compost in your garden, and how to use earthworms to assist your composting efforts. Led by Chris Cano of Gainesville Compost. For more information contact Van Tran, firstname.lastname@example.com.
Free Beginning with Herbal Medicine Workshop
Monday January 19, 2015 from 7-9pm
Highlands Presbyterian Church, 1001 NE 16th Ave.
Every month, on the "3rd Monday", a gathering occurs where local knowledge is shared. This month, we are excited to learn about herbal medicine from our own local expert, Susan Marynowski. For more information contact Faith Carr, email@example.com.
Earthskills Gathering
February 5-8, 2015
Little Orange Creek Nature Park, about 1.3 miles east of Hawthorne, FL, on Hwy 20.
Not to be missed, the annual Florida Earthskills Gathering is even closer to home this year! The gathering is a unique blend of enthusiasts who bring abundant skills and a great spirit of co-creation. The time is ripe for modern, "civilized" humans to become more ecologically aware, to reclaim the true meaning of sustainability, and to help grow a culture of thriving which can only be achieved by living in symbiosis with each other and with our beloved Earth. Workshops and intensives go on all weekend. Check out the website for more information.
Native Pollinators 101 and Bee Box Building Workshop
Saturday February 14, 2015
Forage Farm/Prairie Creek Lodge. 7204 SE CR 234. 10-1pm.
Celebrate this international day of love by learning about our beloved native pollinators! Join us as we learn about these awesome creatures, and what we can all do to help them thrive. Followed by a hands on bee habitat building workshop, you will take home your very own native pollinator bee box! Workshop is free, but if you'd like to take home your own pollinator house, a suggested donation of $20 is requested.
RSVP required to Melissa: firstname.lastname@example.com
I Love Local Food Week
February 15-22, 2015
Join Forage, Blue Oven Kitchens, Florida Organic Growers, and other members of the Alachua County Nutrition Alliance for an exciting line up of events to celebrate local food! The Southern Heritage Seed Collective will be distributing spring and summer seeds; we will host a garden planting downtown; you can get a taste of local food and brews at a local food expo, and more! Check out the events!
Free Seed Starting Workshop
Saturday February 21, 2015 from 10am-12pm
Downtown Farmers Garden, 12 SE 1st. St. On the SW corner of the Alachua County Administration Building lawn. Near Main St. and University Ave.
Learning how to grow your own garden plants from seed is a valuable skill that opens you up to a much wider range of plants, not just those available at local stores. In this workshop, we'll review the basic concepts you need to be successful, while demonstrating two techniques: soil blocking and using trays/cells. Lead by Travis Mitchell and Melissa DeSa of Forage Farm. For more information contact Melissa, email@example.com
Spring and Summer Seeds Distribution
Monday February 16th, 6-8pm, Wednesday February 18th, 4-7pm and Saturday February 28th, 10am-1pm
If you're not part of the Southern Heritage Seed Collective yet, what the hek are you waiting for? This is your chance for a great selection of seeds that are adaptable to our region and some of them are even locally grown! For $25 a year, you get access to two gardening season's worth of seeds. Sign up now, or sign up there. On the 16th we'll be at Highlands Presbyterian Church (1001 NE 16th Ave); on the 18th we'll at the downtown Union Street Farmers Market; on the 28th we're back at Highlands Presbyterian Church.
For more information contact Melissa, email@example.com
Free Spring Gardening Workshop
Saturday March 7, 2015 from 2-3:30 pm
Downtown Farmers Garden, 12 SE 1st. St. On the SW corner of the Alachua County Administration Building lawn. Near Main St. and University Ave.
Learn about what and how to grow for our spring and summer season in north Florida. Led my Melissa DeSa and Travis Mitchell of Forage Farm. For more information contact Melissa, email@example.com
Free Integrated Pest Management Workshop
Monday March 16, 2015 from 7-9pm
Highlands Presbyterian Church, 1001 NE 16th Ave.
Every month, on the "3rd Monday", a gathering occurs where local knowledge is shared. This month, we are excited to learn about the principles and practices of integrated pest management. Think first before you attack those garden pests, and learn how to work with beneficials for a more harmonious garden ecosystem. For more information contact Faith Carr, email@example.com.
Free Garden Pests Workshop
Saturday April 25, 2015 from 2-3:30 pm
Downtown Farmers Garden, 12 SE 1st. St. On the SW corner of the Alachua County Administration Building lawn. Near Main St. and University Ave.
Good, bad or both? As gardeners we need to know who our visitors are and what to do about them organically, if they're a problem. We'll explore the garden to look for common insects and arachnids, and discuss some of the more common ones. Bring any samples you have and we'll help you identify them. The best way to humanely preserve a bug is to put it in the freezer. Then put it in a container that won't crush it, and bring it to us! For more information contact Van, firstname.lastname@example.com
Wildflower Field Day at Forage Farm
Saturday May 2, 2015
Held at Forage Farm/Prairie Creek Lodge; 7204 SE CR 234 Gainesville, FL 32635
Join us for a fun day of learning about Florida wildflowers, and how you can plant your own wildflower garden! We'll tour the farm looking at our newly planted 3/4 acre wildflower meadow, with expert Terry Zinn of the Flower Wildflower Cooperative. Seeds and plants for sale. For more information contact Anna, firstname.lastname@example.com
Free Seed Saving Workshop
Saturday May 16, 2015 from 10am-12pm
Downtown Farmers Garden, 12 SE 1st. St. On the SW corner of the Alachua County Administration Building lawn. Near Main St. and University Ave.
Saving seed was once a common practice among gardeners and farmers, a cultural heritage going back since our ancestors cultivated the first wild crops thousands of years ago. Seeds were saved and shared generously and passed down over generations, because livelihoods depended on it. It is now by and large a lost art, but one that remains critical to our resilience in the face of corporate seed control and climate change. By re-gaining our ability to properly save seed, we not only break free from our dependence on large seed companies, but we also start selecting for varieties that perform well in our climate, taste good, and resist diseases. In this workshop we'll review basic concepts, terminology and techniques you need to know to be well on your way to seed sovereignty! Led by Melissa of Forage Farm. For more information contact Melissa, firstname.lastname@example.com
Southern Heritage Seed Collective
This is your local seed collective! Look no further for your seed needs; we've got a wide selection of vegetable, herb and flower seeds that do well in our region. Modestly started with the help of various community organizations and individuals four years ago, we have grown to be a local hub for seed. We make bulk orders of seed twice a year from companies we trust, offering mostly open-pollinated and organic seeds, never any GMO's. We have started collecting our own seed from the farm and other growers, which is an exciting way to start adapting our edible crops to be more north Florida savvy. These bulk quantities of seeds are re-packaged into quantities sufficient for a home gardener, and distributed to over 300 individuals and organizations every year. School gardens, community gardens and others have joined the collective. It's a great deal financially, takes the guess work out of selecting the right varieties for our region, connects you to numerous other gardeners and resources, supports our small local non-profit business, and brings us closer to taking back control of the most fundamental element of our food system: seeds!
Sign up online today! You may also sign up the day of our seed distributions, which will be announced soon!
For more information, contact Melissa. email@example.com
Fermented Winter Vegetables!
Tis the season for fermented veggies! Sauerkraut, kimchi, kvass and more are possible with the abundance of cabbages and root vegetables from our local farms and gardens. Every year we teach a fermentation class you won't want to miss that teaches you how to do this at home. Here is Susan's recipe for sauerruben or "sour roots". It's so yummy, you can follow the recipe exactly or sub for what you have.
Sauerruben ("Sour Roots")
- 4 medium-large golden beets
- 4 medium-large carrots
- 2 small-medium rutabaga
- 1 large parsnip
- 1 small cabbage
- sea salt
- 4-6 Cloves garlic, pressed
- 2 Tbsp celery seed
- 2 Tbsp caraway seed
- 1 Tbsp dill weed, dried
- 1 Tbsp cumin seed powder
Shred or julienne the roots and thinly slice the cabbage so that they have a fine and consistent texture. Salt everything liberally with sea salt as you go. Mix and squeeze everything well with hands. Pack firmly into jar or crock. Add some brine (salted water) if necessary. Allow to ferment one week, more or less, to taste. This recipe makes about one gallon of sauerruben. Cut the recipe in half to make 1/2-gallon or 2 quarts.


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8 Lloyd's Avenue[edit]
This seems hardly worth mentioning, since this article seems rather neglected, but one of his minor designs was at (now) 8 Lloyd's Avenue, EC3 London, at the other end of the street from Lloyd's Register of Shipping. I suppose in Wikipedia terms this is called primary sources, but since his stone is set in there as the architect, with that date, primary sources or not it is a fact.
I get fed up with primary sources sometimes when the stone has been stuck in there for over a hundred years and still stands. The office where I work, between the two, seems rather nondescript but of the same period generally. I used to contract occasionally for Lloyd's Register of Shipping, which gives one the immeasurable pleasure, in the basement loos, to be pissing up the Roman London Wall.
Best wishes Si Trew (talk) 23:58, 20 May 2011 (UTC)
- By all means add it in. I dont have the City Pevsner which probably lists it but all the others are uncited right now. Will look out for it next time I am there. Justinc (talk) 13:00, 22 May 2011 (UTC)
- I forgot to add the date, and I no longer work next door (it was a short contract), so won't be there for a while. It was just after the last century, I think 1908, but please don't take that as fact. Si Trew (talk) 09:06, 9 July 2011 (UTC)
there isn't Allianz Assurance Building it's important http://www.victorianweb.org/art/architecture/normanshaw/19.html — Preceding unsigned comment added by 126.96.36.199 (talk) 17:10, 24 December 2013 (UTC)


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I will be getting married on Sunday, going for kallah mikvah on Thursday. Obviously, this is an area of Jewish practice I haven't experienced for myself before, so I was hoping one of you lovely ladies could help me out: when you go to mikvah, are you required to clip your nails?
I have heard some horror stories about rude mikvah ladies coming at women with nail clippers if they have long nails, and I'm a bit nervous...I'm a nail biter, and I've had to really fight my nature to grow my nails out for the wedding. They are neat and I will scrub under them before I go, so I'm hoping that's good enough. I think I would cry if I had to clip them now! I've already been having a stressful enough week as it is (the ketubah place sent us somebody else's personalized ketubah instead of ours, thank God I thought to take it out and check it before the wedding!).
Also, the mikvah I will be going to is Lubavitch--I am Conservative. I would prefer to wear short sleeves to the mikvah (I mean, it IS August), but I am wondering if I should dress to Lubavitch standards in the interests of minhag hamakom. Thoughts?


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Russia's one-year ban on food imports from the U.S. and other countries will hit U.S. poultry exports particularly hard, given Russian fondness for American frozen chicken.
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Russia is banning nearly all agricultural imports from countries supporting trade sanctions on Russia.
06 Aug 2014
U.S. poultry exporters are facing stricter inspections of their products by Russian authorities.
06 Aug 2014
Japan has decided not to extend punitive tariffs imposed on some products imported from the United States in retaliation for a U.S. anti-dumping trade law known as the Byrd amendment.
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More gloom has darkened the outlook for the export of U.S. distiller dried grains now that China is requiring all shipments to have a certification showing the feed ingredient doesn't include an unapproved genetically modified strain.
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A selection of articles related to glyphosate endocrine disruptor debate.
Original articles from our library related to the Glyphosate Endocrine Disruptor Debate. See Table of Contents for further available material (downloadable resources) on Glyphosate Endocrine Disruptor Debate.
- My Brother's Keeper?
- My older brother was Evil. Not garden-variety evil, but Evil in the sense of a palpable malevolence that is devoted to the destruction of all that lives and breathes. Ever been pinned to the floor by someone laughing maniacally with a genuine replica of a...
Paganism & Wicca >> Daily Life
- The Pagan Roots of Democracy
- I stepped into the voting booth with civic pride and religious inspiration. The pastors urged the congregation to renew America and vote for a good Christian man, Ronald Reagan. I voted a straight Republican ticket. Those godless Democrats were no better than...
Saga of Times Past >> History & Anthropology
- Hypnosis: A Selected Bibliography
- Index of bibliography sections Selected Periodicals (14 entries) Edited Overviews of General Theories of Hypnosis (5 entries) Specific Topics Related to Research into Hypnosis. General single-author overviews, non-special-state views, social andexperimental...
Parapsychology >> Hypnosis
- Everything you always wanted to know about the beliefs of the Founding Fathers that your Congressman will never tell you!
- Through the Dark Ages, civilization and learning languished under the iron rule of the church. Finally, through the rediscovery of the Pagan Classics, Plato, Aristotle, Epictetus, Plotinus and many other philosophers, the west began to see a glimmer of the...
Saga of Times Past >> History & Anthropology
- King James Bible: Romans, Chapter 1
- Chapter 1 1:1 Paul, a servant of Jesus Christ, called to be an apostle, separated unto the gospel of God, 1:2 (Which he had promised afore by his prophets in the holy scriptures,) 1:3 Concerning his Son Jesus Christ our Lord, which was made of the seed of...
New Testament >> Epistle to the Romans
- An Opinion on Magick
- When I decided to write an article on magick I didn't quite foresee what a difficult subject it was to write about. Magick, (real magick, not the tricks that David Copperfield does) is still considered to be somewhat of a taboo subject. Even in this...
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- Our Mother Who Art In Heaven
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Religions >> Christianity & Paganism
Glyphosate Endocrine Disruptor Debate is described in multiple online sources, as addition to our editors' articles, see section below for printable documents, Glyphosate Endocrine Disruptor Debate books and related discussion.
Suggested Pdf Resources
- Fish & Endocrine Disruptors
- www.ngo.grida.no
- Cetaceans & Endocrine Disruptors
- www.ngo.grida.no
- ITALY. Summary.
- www.springerlink.com
- Endocrine Disruptors
- www.springerlink.com
- Endocrine Disrupting Compounds - Report to the Legislature 2008
- Agency, shall prepare a report on strategies to address endocrine disruptors in ... exposure has been very controversial and the focus of much debate. Glyphosate is a widely used herbicide that may have endocrine disrupting effects .
- www.leg.mn
Suggested Web Resources
- Glyphosate - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- en.wikipedia.org
- Roundup (herbicide) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
- en.wikipedia.org
- Horticulture/Glyphosate - Wikibooks, open books for an open world
- Feb 22, 2011 Whether these studies classify glyphosate as an endocrine disruptor is a matter of debate.
- en.wikibooks.org
- Fish & Endocrine Disruptors
- www.ngo.grida.no
- Endocrine Disruptors: A Quiet Threat to health — Catawba
- This article explains some of the basic tenets of endocrine disruption and underlines There is much debate over what amount of these chemicals, exactly , our .
- www.catawbariverkeeper.org
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Victoria City Sightseeing Tour with Craigdarroch Castle
Read what other Viator.com travelers think about the Victoria City Sightseeing Tour with Craigdarroch Castle. What they loved, what they liked and what they think could be improved, it's all here to help you make the most of your next trip.
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Very comprehensive tour. We could not have covered that much territory, in the time we had, on our own. Driver was very informative.
On our bus we had a couple in their nineties with walkers sitting topside and our driver showed much compassion towards them. He made sure they got up the hil to the castle and back down safely. Also aiding them down the stairs of the bus. Cudos to our driver!
Loved Victoria. What a beautiful city. This was an enjoyable tour showing a sample of the Victoria area. The time passed quickly. The bus driver was very nice, informative and helpful. I would highly recommend this tour.
Fantastic Trip, Excellant tour guide very knowledgeable.Stanley Park was so beautiful.
Victoria is a great city to visit! Full of history, beautiful interesting buildings and great people!
The city tour was informative and the guide very knowledgable. Scenery spectacular both in sun and drizzle!
Royal Museum a place for a return visit!
We had excellent driver/tour guides. They actually talked with us prior to the start of the tour and recommended sites according to our interests. Would certainly take the tour again.
All of my trips were wonderful! The buses were convenient and timely. The drivers were informative and caring.
I am still awaiting information that you have issued a refund for all the trips I took with you after the initaial one.
I'm so glad we decided to take the City Tour. It gave us a more full picture of Victoria, the history and a sense of where things were, so when we wanted to go to specific sites, we felt more comfortable about the areas, how to get there and what to expect. The three day 'hop on and off' pass was a great idea. Unfortunately, we were so busy that we didn't have the time to take advantage of it.
Driver was informative and interesting to listen to. Loved his city and helped us see why.
Same company that did the Buchart Gardens tour. They did an exceptional job.
It was a wonderful experience for first time visitors of Victoria. We truly enjoyed our 90-minute tour of the BC capital because our driver guide was very knowledgeable and brought us to places we
wouldn't have gone on our own. Highly recommended!
Annie L
It was wonderful and I enjoyed it very much. I would recommend it to everyone.
Kenneth R
The driver was very friendly and knowledgeable. We had front seats on the top level of the 'Big Red Bus' and it was a fantastic view.
I am so glad that I took this tour. I got a chance to see the full beauty of victory...the extra dollars for the high tea is highly recommended
driver/tour guide was fabulous!
We took this tour to get us familiar with the layout of the area. Guide was very knowledgeable and pointed out many places of interest.
Our tour bus drivervDave was excellent. We saw a lot of very nice homes along the shore drive. We didn't get up near any of the castles during the tour. Be careful if you are on top of the bus. The trees can smack you pretty good if you are not alert to them. So much to see that it's impossible to fit it all in. This tour gave us a good roadmap of where we would like to go back to and investigate more thoroughly.
I enjoyed the tour. I would have liked also some time off at some points, for example China town to visit the Chinese Gardens. A lot of companies drop you off at some point and give you between 1/2 and 1 hr. free.
A bit too much of looking at fancy homes rather than historical information about your beautiful city.
motor coach good, route good, liked the ability to get on and off..
4 stars because of the site set up--site doesn't make it very clear whether p/u from the hotel is an option or not (I've sent an email and then later made a call to the company trying to clarify, but it did not help either). Anyway, the website allows you to put the name of your hotel in for the p/u when in fact you have to wait for the bus in front of the Empress. Other than that everything was fine. We took the tour twice, once for the tour itself and the other time we've used hop-off/hop-on option. The best guide was Adrian, he loves his city and we just loved his sense of humor!
We found the tour guide very knowledgeable and informative while on the Victoria Sightseeing tour
a very nice overview of the city of victoria. I recommend it
Delightful tour. It gave us a view of inside Victoria beyond the Empress Hotel, its different sorts of residents and the neighborhoods where they live. Well worth the time.
This was fab, everyone involved had time to explain all. cost covered 3 day hop on hop off journey. This was great as on day 1, could do the entire journey working out where and how long to get off and stay to look around on future trios. well worth the money. Guides very knowledgable on all aspects of tour
I assumed that this was a double-decker bus tour, but it is a regular bus tour. My mistake, I should have checked. But it was a very warm day when we took the bus tour, so I was thankful for the A/C in the bus. A tour of Victoria with the driver giving facts/history/interesting points of interest and a few jokes here and there. I had gone on this tour before,so I knew what to expect. It was my parents' first time, and they fell asleep through some of it. They were surprised that a good portion of the tour was through the nicer Victoria neighborhoods. I think they didn't realize that Victoria, although beautiful, is not a large city.