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Editors Brent Rosen, Anna Lowder, Caroline Nabors Rosen, Harvi Sahota Creative Director Harvi Sahota Design Matter www.iheartmatter.com Contributing Writers Brent Rosen, Caroline Nabors Rosen, Anna Lowder, Andrea Jean, Heather Steen, Tiffany Bell, Will Abner, Johnny Veres, Sam Wootten, Jennifer Kornegay, Scott Steen, Andrea Marty, Melissa Tsai, Joe Birdwell, Tom Jean, Edwin Marty, Evans Bailey, Tina Hofer Medico, Robert Wool, Will Steineker, Elliot Knight, Mark Bowen, Christian Kerr, Rebecca Seung, David Mowery, David Wondrich

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MADE Paper 505 Cloverdale Road, Unit 102 Montgomery, Alabama 36106 Call 334.223.4862 Email editor@madepaper.com COVER PHOTO: Jon Kohn MOdel: Luke Lindgren Corrections: JUNE 02 Issue The photo credit in Street Style mistakenly listed David Mowery’s baby as a boy. The Mowerys have a beautiful baby daughter.

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MADE is a collective of citizens celebrating the local, the authentic, and the unique. We are creatives featuring other creatives and the engaging work being produced in our city. We call attention to all fields forging new pathways in expression and innovation. We are makers who love to eat, talk, collaborate, question, party, and laugh, and we want you to take part.

Thanks for reading this and supporting the artists, craftsmen, creatives, and active citizens that make a city thrive.

We Need to Avoid the Southern-Glossy Trap WORDS Brent Rosen

Three months. If this were a relationship, we’d have a toothbrush at each other’s house by now, would know each other’s favorite song, would understand each other’s habits and we would begin to realize the potential problems we face as our relationship continues to evolve.

This column is not about toothbrushes or favorite songs or our good and bad habits. Instead, I want to focus on what could become a problem as MADE and Montgomery continue to grow together.

I am a displaced Northerner who spends more per month on food than on all other expenses combined, who loves British literature, who prefers the urban to the suburban, who engages in horseplay of all stripes, who enjoys ironic facial hair, and who whets his whistle with only the sourest of sour mash. For me, MADE does a great job of covering stories I find of interest. Our other editors are former fashion designers, current professional photographers, journalists, marketers, bartenders, actors, musicians, architects and small-business people. We all have other jobs -- MADE is an outlet for our creativity, and the paper’s content reflects our passions. We are very proud of what we have created, but we also recognize that without vigilance, MADE could easily fall into the “Southern-Glossy Trap.”

The Southern-Glossy Trap first came to my attention last year when the Oxford American got into a war of words with Garden & Gun. Since I doubt many of you keep up with spats between niche magazines, some background is likely necessary. The Oxford American is an award-winning Southern literary magazine known for its excellent writing and focus on untold Southern stories.

Garden & Gun, which bills itself as “the Soul of the South” is a beautiful magazine geared toward well-off Southerners and non-Southerners who appreciate the

charm, foodways, sporting culture, and laidback nature of the South. The spat began when the Oxford American accused Garden & Gun of white-washing (literally and figuratively -- if that is possible) the South’s racial and religious past and present, while promoting “vulgar and aggressive materialism.”

While I enjoy (and have subscribed to) both magazines, the Oxford American’s criticism, while excessive, raises a valid point. You can’t be the “Soul of the South” if you don’t have voices in your magazine that represent the South in its entirety. Or, to put it another way, if your magazine claims to be about “Southern Living,” but the only lives depicted are those of the rich and famous, your magazine may have fallen into the Southern-Glossy Trap.

For MADE to truly be Montgomery’s best newspaper, we need to make sure that every voice in Montgomery is included. While I think we have done a good job representing Montgomery so far, we also know we need a larger stable of writers, photographers and other contributors to ensure we don’t become the paper for vaguely progressive, somewhat artistically inclined, foodand-drink obsessed white people. While as a group we have a diversity of interests, backgrounds, ethnicities, and personalities, we need MADE to reflect our larger, wider diversity in Montgomery. There is much more to the city, and we need help covering it. We need to avoid the Southern-Glossy Trap.

So, dear reader, if you look at our pages and don’t see you or your community accurately reflected, step up. We need your voice if we are going to reach our full potential.

Send an email to editor@madepaper.com and we’ll take it from there. If we can work this problem out early, I think our relationship could last a long, long time.

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New residents in general (and the military in particular) form a critical part of Montgomery’s economic and social complexion. The military and its associate organizations and contractors are quite possibly the most critical sector of Montgomery’s economy.

Meanwhile, the 754th Electronic Systems Group (ELSG) forms the base of our area’s high-tech sector as the largest IT employer in Montgomery with an estimated financial impact over $590 million annually. Additional IT companies needed for operations and support total over 140 firms and producing $400 million per year in regional Maxwell-Gunter Air Force Base is home to Air University, the 42nd Air contracts.

Base Wing, the 908th Airlift Wing, 754th Electronics System Group (ELSG) and other organizations totaling more than 17,000 military, Highly skilled and educated, these residents and students move to civil service and contracted personnel employed at Maxwell-Gunter, Montgomery with often low expectations for social and cultural and provides benefits and support to around 49,000 military veterans opportunities. Military newcomers can spend six months or more from all branches. In total, Maxwell-Gunter brings an economic impact before ever getting to know the real - the new Montgomery. So the of over $1.8 billion per year to the river region.

MADE staff set out to accelerate the learning curve. Here is our introduction to the best ways for our military friends to get to know Interestingly, every Air Force officer in the country comes through the city and all of us that call this place “home.” We’ll see you out Air University at some point in their career. Air University’s total and about, and hopefully we’ll each remember to thank you for your Maxwell-Gunter resident student throughput population is over impact on our economy and our community.

39,000 students per year.

How To Be A Local From Day One The MADE Guide: 15 unique MGM hotspots

July brings the Alabama heat, but also brings many new faces to the City of Montgomery. Yeah, we're talking to many of you new folks on base. If you've ever moved to a new place, you know searching for the good spots in town is a must. Or maybe you've lived here and need a few different places to spice up the usual. In either case, Tah-Dah! Here are a few of our favorite spots. This should keep you busy until the MADE August issue comes out.

Capitol City Oyster Bar It’s on the river, it’s a bit of a dive, it’s close to base. You’ll find all sorts of folks here. Grab a cold beer, raw oysters & listen to live music on Sundays. This place has what you want: riverfront views, a working marina, outdoor tables, and sunsets that last for days. This is one of Downtown’s real treasures so find it early.

capitoloysterbar.com 617 Shady St Downtown Montgomery Photos Jon Kohn

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chris’ hotdogs 96 years and counting, Chris’ is a Montgomery institution. Call it our rendition of a Philly cheesesteak - we love these hot dogs. Chris’ Special Sauce is the secret to these hot dogs and burgers. Old-style crinkle fries drowned in ketchup on mint green melamine plates what could be better with a bottled Coke or beer? The waitresses will entertain you while you wait - try a counter seat for a real throw back experience.

chrishotdogs.com 138 Dexter Ave Downtown Montgomery Price- $ Photos Jon Kohn

E.A.T. South Downtown Farm Go visit farmer Jetson in the heart of downtown and learn about your food.

Take lunch, walk around and enjoy a true urban farm. Watch school kids learning too. eatsouth.org 425 Molton St Downtown Montgomery Price- Free

Photo Jon Kohn

Railyard Brewing Company Montgomery’s only craft brewery. A great place to watch a game, get a cold beer & a burger. Also right across the street from the Biscuits Stadium. railyardbrewingcompany.com 12 W Jefferson St Downtown Montgomery Price- $$

Photos Jon Kohn

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LEROY It’s dark, it’s cold, it’s the perfect spot to explore new beers and craft cocktails.

With a staff that knows their spirits, it’s the perfect place to meet and relax.

It’s a vacation out of Montgomery in the heart of Cloverdale. Plus they have an amazing patio out back.

leroylounge.com 2756 Boultier Ave Old Cloverdale Price- $$

ELREY El Rey Burrito Lounge has been an alt-Montgomery institution for over 14 years. This renovated bungalow-turned hip bar / restaurant turns out authentic, fresh Mexican in a neighborhood setting. Extensive (seriously long) craft beer list, margaritas, delicious salsas and more. Try the malditos and plate-filling tacos of all types.

burritolounge.com 1031 E Fairview Ave Old Cloverdale Price- $$

TRUE Chef Wesley has carefully crafted the menu at TRUE to reflect flavorful produce, meats and Alabama Gulf seafood sourced from local farmers & suppliers.

truemontgomery.com 503 Cloverdale Road Old Cloverdale Price- $$ Photos HARVI SAHOTA

MIDTOWN PIZZA Kitchen MPK may be a bit hard to find, but the fresh pastas and pizza reward those who do. Intimate space with good craft beer selection. Great picks are the Zelda pizza, the stromboli or a BYO (build your own) pizza.

midtownpizzakitchen.com 2940 Zelda Rd Midtown Photo WILL ABNER FOR MPK

Price- $$

TOMAtInOS Located in the heart of Old Cloverdale’s Five Points main street, this small spot only seats about 20 or so, but with a great takeout business it’s all you need. Good salads, pizza, calzones and more.

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THE coosa RIVER

Bark Park

There are a few options to kayak or tube around here. Google “kayak,” “coosa,” or any combination there of for a fun day outdoors.

Your canine friend will thank you. Go to this brand new, state-of-the-art dog park in Blount Cultural Park. Lots of friendly people and dogs will greet you. Blount Cultural Park • 6055 Vaughn Road

EASTBROOk FLEA MARKET

INternational MArket

Need a new bed, antiques, records or anything in between? This is the spot for you for any price point. It’s hours of fun digging through three stories of different booths.

This is the real life version of it’s a small, small world. Amazing selection of groceries, fruits and juices that are international. It’s gritty and as the guys around here say, “just dope.”

425 Coliseum Blvd

2256 E South Blvd

Photos Jon Kohn

D’Road Cafe It’s local flavor like no other. Check out the daily specials and pick up for an easy dinner. No booze and limited seating, but worth the drive out the Atlanta Highway for food “so good it’ll make you wanna slap your mama.”

facebook.com/droadcafe 6250 Atlanta Hwy East Montgomery Price- $ - $$

THE TIPPING POINT Have you ever watched Cheers and dreamed of going to a place like that? Well this is your option for it “out East.” Sam, who may or may not be sporting a mustache, can help you choose the perfect beer for any occasion. They’ve revamped the menu with great bar food for Summer. Kids? No worries, bring them along and let them play in the Beer Garden or the famous Kids’ Hill.

tippingpointhampstead.com 5015 Hampstead High St East Montgomery Photos Jon Kohn

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h c i r d n o David W

made interviews AMERICA’S COCKTAIL KING

WORDS CAROLINE ROSEN

Call him “a living iPod of drink lore and recipes” (The New York Times) or “a crazy, bearded Civil War general” (Conan O’Brien), David Wondrich is the world’s foremost expert on the history of the American cocktail.

Whether writing and editing for The New York Times, Esquire, Saveur, Bon Appetit, Gourmet, or countless national publications, David has helped revive and propel cocktail culture to the forefront as a new American hobby. MADE met with David in Atlanta and spoke about drinks, life, and his new book “Imbibe! From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to Professor Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar.” David, we’ve read your bio and the life you’ve led looks like something out of a movie. When did you discover your love for the cocktail? It could have been when I was about 8 or 9 and bought a plastic GI Joe-scale cocktail kit at a street market in Sicily (my father was half Sicilian and we used to spend time over there when I was a kid). I had my guys behind the bar with the shaker. Or it could have been later, when I was drinking in old-man bars in NYC because they were all I could afford. A gin martini was your best bang for the buck and didn’t get you dirty looks from the bartender.

Were you really a process server for a mob lawyer? I was indeed.

Crazy job. They used to send me to the bank with tens of thousands of dollars. I was 20 or 21 then, and right next to the bank was the Airline Ticket Office, where all the airlines had counters. Very tempting, but then again, it was mob money.

In the cocktail world you’ve been dubbed “the godfather”. Who inspires you the most to continue in the field? Dale DeGroff has always set the example for me for how to do this - unfailingly pleasant and hospitable, with a permanent curiosity and, above all, a sense of humor.

When you are creating, do you do this in your office? Home? Or do you have a favorite bar? I don’t have a home bar, since my house is quite old and they didn’t do that sort of thing back then. I use the kitchen like everyone else.

For the novice cocktail enthusiast, what’s the most important part of the cocktail? Great liquor, mixers, following the recipe exactly?

I’m a firm believer in practicing the basic techniques until you’ve got an easy mastery before getting all creative. Learn to use a Boston shaker (the kind with the glass and the tin), to stir properly (much harder than it looks) and to measure everything accurately. Then master a few (5 or 10) bedrock classics. Everyone will be happy to have you at their parties.

Do you have a favorite spirit? Rye whiskey. And cognac. And rum.

And mezcal. Can’t forget gin. Ok, no.

Have you ever made a cocktail for a person and you were completely star struck? If so, whom? I made a cocktail for Jacques Pepin once, the great French-American chef. It was the house cocktail from Le Pavillon, the French restaurant in New York where he got his American start in the 1950s. He hated it.

You’ve researched cocktails across the world. Is there a particular region that you find the most interesting? Cuba is fascinating, as is New Orleans and (for Punch) the UK. But to me no place is more fascinating for its drinking history than New York City, where I live.

Very convenient.

We’re here in Montgomery - any great Alabama recipes we should know about? I don’t know any off the top of my head beyond the Alabama Slammer, with which I messed up my youth. This tells me I’m either getting forgetful or I’ve got to do more research. The Deep South is tough for old cocktail recipes because the newspapers weren’t so chatty about such things as the northern ones and there was much less of a publishing industry, so there were far fewer cocktail books.

What’s your favorite summertime cocktail? The Daiquiri, made the original Cuban way by stirring a barspoon of superfine sugar into the juice of half a lime, adding 2 ounces of flavorful, imported white rum, shaking it up viciously with lots of ice and straining it into a champagne coupe. Most refreshing thing ever.

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Best spot or dish to eat in the whole world? Right now, I wish I had an arancino - a fried, stuffed rice ball - from Savia, in Catania, Sicily. I’d settle, though, for a plate of red beans and rice at the Napoleon House in New Orleans, as long as I had a Sazerac with it.

This is the water of presidents. And of celebrities.

It is the water of athletes – even Triple Crown winners. It’s as comfortable in the Oval Office as it was in the Old West. Sodium free and naturally ionized, Mountain Valley was named “Best Water in the World” – twice – at Berkley Springs International Water Tasting. Premium domestic spring water, bottled in glass at the original source for more than 140 years.

Find it locally at MountainValleySpring.com

WORDS ANDREA JEAN

A Special Kind of G.E.A.R… Kellie Guthrie An old fire station sits at the intersection of Cottage Hill and Five Points. But the firemen of Station 5 have long since gone, and Kellie Guthrie and her team of talented seamstresses have moved in. Guthrie flipped the station into a veritable showroom and studio for her business, Re-Invention/G.E.A.R. by RI. And her workspace mirrors her products.

A fashion industry veteran, Guthrie left the hustle and bustle of the trade in 2005 and applied her skills toward a more meaningful end. Think TOMS Shoes meets Anthropologie—her elevator chat summation.

How did you start down this path of creating pieces made from re-purposed materials that are socially responsible?

Work, and finding ways to provide work-based solutions, makes sense to me.

I stumbled upon “Social Business,” which tackles a social or environmental need with a purpose absolutely central to what it does. The net-profits from these businesses are reinvested to sustain and further positive, lasting change. I believe real change happens when opportunity is created, and social businesses are at the forefront of driving that change.

Mission by providing a full textile manufacturing and upholstery processes program, followed by industry apprenticeships. Building a sustainable business that provides a solution to poverty is a challenge we face every day.

What is the thought process or creative inspiration behind your bags and home designs?

My inspiration and design concept is about rich textures, color, repurposing and human struggle. By taking discarded materials and mixing them with “hope,” we create a product comprised of truth and beauty!

G.E.A.R. (Go! Everyone, Everywhere and Re-Invent) is a social design business that creates recycled and re-purposed home accents, furnishings and an array of one-of-a-kind bags. Not only are her pieces aesthetically beautiful, but a majority of revenue from each of her “handmade with love” items benefits charitable organizations.

What are some of the challenges you face?

Tell me about the tools you use…

Along with day-to-day small business challenges, “Social Businesses” face additional obstacles —the business and the product is a means to an end.

G.E.A.R. by R-I was created to “Re-Invent” where we live - to create jobs and with the hope of expanding the organizations we serve.

Our hands are our main tools, but we also use needles, thread, rotary cutters, scissors, regular and industrial sewing machines, drills, saws, wrenches, screwdrivers, tweezers, paint…just lots of tools! I love them—especially power tools.

What led you to design home accents and travel bags?

In our partnership with the Friendship Mission, we provided training for the homeless to help them learn skills and regain the confidence needed to join the workforce. Women and men learned to cut, sew and create in a re-purposed yellow school bus! Another partnership with The Nehemiah Center in the Chisholm area expands on the process started at Friendship

Where can we purchase your products?

A desire to find solutions for real, sustainable change for those ravaged and exploited by circumstances or poverty using my gifts and experiences. I have seen the effects of poverty and the many forms of exploitation and made the commitment that this won’t happen on my watch!

TJ Williford

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Our website, www.re-invention.org, has a list of stores that carry G.E.A.R. goods. We’re also at the Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts store. And make sure to follow us on Facebook, Twitter and of course, Pinterest!

Photos CENTER & RIGHT: Michelle Marie Photography LEFT: KELLY GUTHRIE

How Montgomery Wears Its Holiday Red White & Blue Top Left. Luke Lindgren Board and summer plaid set the local Superhero scene spotted in a Cloverdale alley.

Bottom Left. Julian Grayson When not pouring pints at his favorite watering hole, Julian sports the Tipping Point turquoise for his take on RW&B.

Top Right. Andrea Jean MADE Style Editor and all-around fashionista, Andrea evokes “Rosie The Riveter” as she unveils her of-the-moment turban chic at the pump. Navy Superga trainers and chic umbrella are optional accessories.

Bottom Right. Chandler Sims Hines Ever-stylish Chandler takes the holiday look to a new level with Jenny Johnson retro Chanel jewelry, poppy top, and a straw trilby.

Rosé champagne recommended.

Montgomery Street Style July 4th edition

Photos Luke, Andrea & Julian by Jon Kohn Chandler BY HARVI SAHOTA

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Words & Photos Elliot A. Knight

Space 301’s Futures Project brings cutting-edge Contemporary Art to Alabama’s Gulf Coast

If you need an excuse to visit Mobile this summer, the Futures Project at the Centre for the Living Arts is worth the drive down I-65. The Centre for Living Arts (CLA) runs Space 301, which is a 16,000 square foot gallery where the Futures Project is housed. The exhibition is innovative, interactive, and thought-provoking, and is confirmation that the CLA is quickly becoming a beacon of contemporary art on the Gulf Coast. The exhibit runs through January 2014 and brings together internationally recognized artists to explore visions of the future in the gallery and throughout the Mobile area.

Candy Chang lives in New Orleans, is a senior TED fellow, and is best known for her participatory community art projects that invite audience responses. Her project “Before I Die” inspired the wall on Dexter Avenue that was on display earlier this year. Chang’s work for the Futures Project is titled “The School of the Future” and uses Barton Academy, the oldest public school in Alabama, as a springboard to contemplate the ways in which children learn and the role schools play in making us who we are. Thousands of red beach balls surround a desk where visitors are invited to sit and write down their thoughts about the future of education.

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Kenny Scharf is an internationally recognized painter that incorporates street art, pop culture, and science fiction into his work. Scharf painted a 240 foot mural on the outside of Space 301 as a gift to the City of Mobile, and also has an array of work inside the gallery. The exhibition has a number of Scharf’s large scale paintings on display, which reference past notions of the future through nods to The Jetsons, Tang, and other midcentury imagery. He also created a room filled with DayGlo painted junk, which becomes a portal into a multisensory future and provokes thought about consumption.

Last year, the CLA invested in projectors and video equipment to become home to Xavier de Richemont’s first exhibition in the United States. The video installation is in a raw industrial space with 30-foot-high walls where images are projected simultaneously onto every wall for an immersive experience unlike anything I have experienced anywhere else. This incredible space is now home to over 20 short videos curated by Tom Leeser for this exhibition. The videos last over two hours and play continuously on a loop. The Futures Project is exhilarating, expansive and highly recommended.

Getting to the Futures Project: Where: Centre for the Living Arts, Mobile, Alabama When: Open Wednesday – Sunday Admission: $5 for adults; $3 for Seniors & Students (free for members) Questions? Call 251.208.5671 or visit www.centreforthelivingarts.com

ASF Spotlight:

Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash

WORDS Jennifer Kornegay

He may be considered a country music legend, but you don’t have to be a fan of the genre to appreciate Johnny Cash. His distinctive sound crosses musical boundaries, and the raw honesty in many of his lyrics, telling tales of hard times often pulled from his personal struggles, resonates with millions, as evidenced by his chart-topping hits and inclusion on Rolling Stone’s list as the 31st Most Influential Musician of All Time. That his stories are delivered in his rough, yet rich, voice, only make them that much more compelling.

This month, The Alabama Shakespeare Festival is giving us the chance to hear the man in black’s most iconic songs in “Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash,” which opens on July 11 and runs through August 4. Featuring and being directed by Jason Edwards, who starred in the Broadway production, the musical celebrates Cash’s life and the music he created and includes over 30 of his songs, favorites like “Folsom Prison Blues,” “I Walk the Line” and “The Ring of Fire.”

The show has sold out to crowds across the country, thanks to a cast of talented Nashville-based actors and musicians who bring Cash’s story to life. Whether you’re hearing his music for the first or the hundred and first time, experiencing it amid the intimacy of live theatre is a treat not to be missed.

So make your plans now to join this expert cast in our amazing, world-class theatre and fall into the flames. It may burn a little, but it’s a good burn.

Tickets start at $30. Buy now at 800.841.4273, at www.asf.net or by visiting the ASF Box Office.

Photo Vicki Kerr (featuring Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash cast members Jason Edwards, Kelli Provart, Trenna Barnes, Troy Burgess)

Feature Film

July 11-12, 18-19, 25-26 Summer Children’s Matinees Capri Theatre

10 a.m. and 1 p.m.

For the 30th year in a row, the Capri Theatre presents the Children’s Summer Matinees. Nine weeks of entertainment to get you through the summer. July features include “The Pirates! Band of Misfits,” “Monsters vs Aliens” and “Hotel Transylvania.” Admission is $1.00 per child.

For info call 334 262 4858 or visit www. capritheatre.org

July 11 – August 4 Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash

Alabama Shakespeare Festival WORDS Evans Bailey

YOU HAVEN’T SEEN...VERTIGO?!

No biggie. All you have to do is work up the intestinal fortitude to lift up that rock you’ve been living under and get your vitamin D-deficient ass to the Capri Theatre on July 18 at 7:30. Bring some cash because you are going to need a beer or two (or five) to calm your nerves during the nail-biter that is Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo.

Jimmy Stewart (against type and, in 1958, 19 years removed from Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) plays a talented policeman forced into early retirement after a rooftop chase unearths his debilitating vertigo and acrophobia. He doesn’t stay retired for long.

Upon the advice of his ex-fiancée Midge (Barbara Bel Geddes), he decides to get some stimulation in his life and takes a private eye job helping his old college pal, Gavin Elster (Tom Helmore). Gavin wants Stewart’s former cop skills to help him figure out what on earth is going on with his wife (Kim Novak). She’s disappearing for long periods of time and unusually immersed in her family’s tragic history. Is the supernatural at play, as Gavin suggests, or is it simply madness?

There’s really only four characters in the film (or is it five?), and the big mystery gets revealed about halfway through. But it’s where Hitchcock takes Stewart’s character and the audience from there that’s led many far more established, experienced, talented, and better-paid critics to laud this picture as his magnum opus. Hitchcock weaves a ghost story, a love triangle (or rectangle?), drowning, falling, and intense psychological suspense with vivid scenes of 1950’s San Francisco to create a truly unforgettable film.

You like good things (you are reading MADE aren’t you). Gather all the change under your rock and go see Vertigo when it comes to the Capri.

I’m not kidding about needing the beer.

“Ring of Fire: The Music of Johnny Cash” opens at the Alabama Shakespeare Festival on July 11 and runs through August 4. This song-filled country music cavalcade pays homage to the life and times of John R. “Johnny” Cash, one of America’s greatest music icons. Tickets start at $30. For tickets and info call 800 841 4273 or visit www.asf.net.

July 20 Art on Fire: A Mixed Media Event

Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts

7 to 9 p.m.

Join the MMFA Junior Executive Board for the summer Mixed Media event Art on Fire. Listen to live music by local talent Charlie Hubbard and Michael Gaby and watch a live glass blowing demonstration

by Calvary Glass. Picnic baskets, chairs, and blankets are welcome. For info visit www.mmfa.org or call 334 240 4347.

July 24 Zelda’s Birthday Party

F. Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Musuem

4 to 6 p.m.

Celebrate what would have been Zelda’s 113th birthday at the museum’s annual cocktail party featuring Tiziana lo Porto, author of “SuperZelda”. www.fitzgeraldmuseum.net

July 26 Don Quixote

Montgomery Ballet Performance at the Davis Theatre 7:30 p.m.

The Montgomery Ballet Professional Company presents Don Quixote at the Davis Theatre. For tickets call 334 409 0522 or visit www.etix.com

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WORDS & PHoto David Mowery The food scene in Montgomery has grown exponentially in the past few years. We have a fine array of upscale and downscale options: “authentic” southern cooking, enough meat and three options to choke a horse, and enough chains to delight the taste buds of anyone who wishes they lived in Orlando. We also have some off the beaten track options that this column will seek to explore over the next few issues.

When Hyundai arrived in Montgomery it was the biggest industrial recruitment project in Alabama history and it paved the way for a cross-cultural dialogue that had occurred much in the region. Did you know there are over 10,000 Koreans living in the River Region?

As a young man, my dad was stationed in Korea. We were lucky enough that it was an “accompanied tour” which meant that I got to spend my 11th Birthday on a Northwest flight from SeaTac to Seoul. This was even pre-Gameboy, so my entertainment options were my Walkman and two trusty cassette tapes: George Michael’s “Faith” and Poison’s “Open Up and Say….Ahhh.”

What does all of this have to do with food? Well, while everyone has their favorite go-to Chinese place, many enjoy Hibachi and Sushi nightly at several locations, and we even have Lao, Thai and Vietnamese restaurants in Montgomery, how many of you have eaten at one of the Korean restaurants in our city?

My dad worked for something called The Combined Field Army, which meant, essentially, that his boss was a Korean General – General Han. He was stationed at Camp Red Cloud in Uijongbu and we lived on Yongsan in Seoul. Aside from having half days the entire first two weeks of school, my best memories are about the meals we had.

Meals varying from high-end dinners with a wood-fired cooking pot in the middle of the table to make your own Kalbi (short ribs) lettuce wraps, to meals with my dad, his boss, and colleagues where we were the only ones who spoke English, to our “Ajuma” (housekeeper) making Chap Chae (like a pasta salad) to a pre-Anthony Bourdain “street food experience” of eating Yakki Mandu (Korean style pot stickers) and Jjamgyeon (Soup). Well, that and the time my dad conspired with his boss to make me eat dog.

The dog thing and the fact that many of the ingredients are often translated as “fermented black bean paste” and “beef tendon,” coupled with a general lack of knowledge about Korean culture present a high barrier to entry – even in a town who’s largest private sector employer is a Korean company.

Most Americans start out with (and enjoy) Bulgogi. It is similar to stir fried beef, but with a pronounced sesame and onion component that may take some getting used to.

Traditional Korean food is also served with steamed rice on the side, and Kimchi – the dreaded fermented cabbage that everyone is immediately wary of. Kimchi looks odd to the western eye, and it has a pungent smell and taste that may take some getting used to, but like curry in India and marinara in Italy, each region, and often families within the region, has its own recipes – so you can’t write all kimchi off on the basis of one that you tried.

The first time my wife and I went to a Korean restaurant in Montgomery, I was excited. Having not eaten much Korean in the ensuing years, I wanted to get some of my old favorites, and show off my supreme command of the language – I can say both “Hello” and “Thank You.” But the proprietors of the establishment could not have been less excited to see us, and seemed to be angry when I tried to use my vast knowledge on them. I chalked it up to the fact that the restaurant in question, Korea Garden, is two doors down from a Chinese restaurant, and they probably get sick of shooing people down there for Fried Rice Special #4.

We had a good meal, and they serve all the usual dishes. Our next meal at Arirang

was met with a slightly more cheerful reception, and a similar meal. I have not been back to either, though.

Woo-Ga is a “Korean Barbecue Restaurant” located where the old McAlisters was on the Eastern Boulevard. It appears to be a chain based out of Atlanta, operated by locals. I have been several times and sampled much of the fair. The hosts don’t speak the best English, but if you go in knowing what you want, you can have a superb meal. Each order comes with an appetizer sampler with a stream of always changing fare that is all excellent. I had the pork Kalbi and Yakki Mandu, while Michelle enjoyed the BiBimBap – a sort of mixed bowl of rice, vegetables, meat and a fried egg.

The old Hooter’s is soon to be the home of “Gangnam” – which I’m sure is an attempt to capitalize on the dance craze by K-Pop superstar Psy. At press time it was not open, but I look forward to trying it soon.

There is also a Korean market in the shopping center at the corner of Interstate 85 North and the Eastern Boulevard, which sells home country favorites, but also to-go food options including Kim-Bop (Korean sushi for lack of a better term. It often features egg or a piece of hot dog instead of fish, and uses Korean style sticky white rice and not the sushi rice we are all used to. That said, I can eat 25 pieces of this right out of the package. It tastes like the after school rec center on Yongsan to me).

A good place to start for some “Korean 101” of Bulgogi is Sushi Café on Zelda Road.

They have recently introduced a Bulgogi option for the both the Bowl and Bento Box, and (deep dark secret) the place is actually owned and operated by a Korean couple.

Everything is great there, but next time you go try the bulgogi, and maybe that will spark a desire to seek out and try more Korean food – now that you know what you are missing.

Wine-Poached Dates with Bacon A couple of months ago, I attended my first “kitchen shower” in NYC to celebrate the pre-nuptials of one of my best friends and college roommate. The bridesmaids wanted to do something that reflected the bride’s passion for baking and that’s where the idea stemmed from.

“Home Cooking New York” guided us through several different recipes, including wine-poached figs with prosciutto. Yum! I have to admit, I don’t eat much pork but I could not stop popping those little savory, sweet delights in my mouth. Instead of using figs and prosciutto, I used dates and bacon when I remade them at home; the result was just as delicious. These are the perfect snacks for summer get-togethers.

Adapted from a recipe on homecookingny.com

ingredients: 24-30 dried dates • 2 cups white wine • 1 sprig fresh thyme • 3 black peppercorns •2 tbsp honey • ¼ cup balsamic vinegar • 1 tbsp dark brown sugar • kosher salt • ½ lb bacon • toothpicks

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directions: In a medium saucepan over medium-high heat, combine dates, wine, thyme, peppercorns and honey.

Bring to a boil, reduce heat, and simmer for about 5 minutes. Remove the dates with a slotted spoon and set aside.

To the poaching liquid, add the balsamic vinegar, sugar and a pinch of salt. Continue to simmer until the mixture is syrupy, about 8 minutes more.

Preheat oven to 400 degrees F. Wrap the dates with bacon and secure with a toothpick. Place the wrapped dates on a baking sheet and brush with the wine syrup.

Bake for 10-15 minutes until the bacon is crispy. Serve with wine syrup drizzled on top.

What Beer Drinker Are You? Real Beer for July 4th WORDS Sam Wootten

We’ve worked extra hard to bring our readers the Best of Beer this Fourth of July week. Knowing there are dozens of beer types and new brands and brews cropping up every month (thank goodness), we’ve rounded up the best for a hot Summer’s holiday. Our aim is to convince our readers to put down the usual go-to summer beers and try something new. “No Bud Light” will be the mantra this Fourth of July! Instead we’re pulling out new ice-cold IPAs, pilsners and ambers for you to pair with hot dogs, Summer sun and fireworks.

All Day Drinker

Keep it light and refreshing with an appropriately named “All Day IPA” from Founders Brewery out of Michigan. At 4.7% ABV, it is a steady companion for a long day, but doesn’t compromise on flavor. Plenty of hops (42 IBUs) keep it bouncy, and the malt smooths the finish to a light (and much less bitter) satisfying quaff. Available in twelve pack cans this summer to make it extra easy to pack in and pack out (ask your local retailer). Would be the perfect complement to a spicy salsa or hot buffalo wings.

Lake Boat Drinker

So long as you aren’t steering the ship, settle in for a gentle lake cruise with a Treehugger from Athens, GA’s Terrapin Brewery. This smooth Americanized Altbier (5%) is a flavorful, session ale with a conscience. You feel better knowing you are protecting southern forests with this environmentally-aware brew. Rich brown color, sweet malt tastes with a clean, watery finish. Great with grilled salmon or pizza.

Parent Drinker

Getting everyone tucked in at night on vacation is a challenge. We recommend a little onetwo punch from one of our favorite Colorado breweries, Oskar Blues. Start with a “Mama’s Little Yella Pils” (5.3%, crisp and balanced) while you are putting the wee tikes to rights, and then reward yourself with a “G’Knight Imperial Red” (8.7%, seriously hopped and velvety finish) after everyone is tucked in and a quiet settles around you after a long day of swimming or just plain chasing your kids. As most parents know, sometimes you just eat cold leftovers but you’ll care less with these two tasty beers by your side.

Fireworks Drinker

Nothing says stare at the sky and contemplate the infinite wonder like a “Red Giant.” Enjoy the nighttime displays of bombast and patriotic pride with this big (8.1%), luscious American amber ale from Massachusetts’ Element Brewing Company. This 750ml of surprising complexity pairs perfectly steaks and salty cheeses.

FOOD & DRINK EVENTS July 4 Beer-B-Que Central 4pm til

Join Chef Leo as he cooks Bar-B-Que on the back patio and has some of his favorite craft beers on special.

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July 9 2nd Tuesday Trivia Night Leroy 7pm WORDS & PHOTO ANNA LOWDER

It’s time to get the Fourth of July celebrations started with a bang. No better way than to fire off your warning shot with the Chatham Artillery Punch. This is a take-no-prisoners punch, a drink that pulls no punches (pun absolutely intended) and can knock your socks off.

The history of Chatham Artillery Punch is a long one. It was first concocted in the 1850s in Georgia to honor a rival military organization, Savannah’s Republican Blues. Legend has it that the original recipe was created in “ice-filled horse buckets into which were placed sugar, lemon and a quart each of brandy, whiskey and rum. Then the bucket was filled with champagne.” I recommend using the best quality alcohol you can, as this punch relies on the flavor of - well, just alcohol basically.

This punch will knock you off your arsenal. So make it for a crowd, and plan to stay put a while. A charming but deceitful celebratory drink.

Chatham Artillery Punch recipe adapted from David Wondrich’s cocktail book Imbibe!: From Absinthe Cocktail to Whiskey Smash, a Salute in Stories and Drinks to “Professor” Jerry Thomas, Pioneer of the American Bar ingredients: 8 lemons 1 pound superfine sugar 750 ml bottle bourbon or rye 750 ml bottle Cognac 750 ml bottle dark Jamaican rum 3 bottles Champagne or sparkling wine nutmeg (optional)

Start brushing up with your Trivial Pursuit or old-school Jeopardy games.

These trivia nights are competitive.

Watch out, cheaters, Shannon will confiscate your iPhones. www.leroylounge.com 334.356.7127

July 14 Bastille Day Leroy

Celebrate the French liberation with Franco-phile inspired cocktails and beers at Montgomery’s closest thing to a dark, French bar. www.leroylounge.com 334.356.7127

July 15 Bastille Day Dinner El Rey Burrito Lounge

Celebrate wtih El Rey’s annual bash honoring our European liberation friends. Always a great, unexpected event! www.burritolounge.com 334.832.9688

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The Silo Project

When is a place art? Is it in the designer’s intent, or is it something more natural, more innate, that qualifies it as artistic? Take, for example, something as common to the Southern landscape as a silo….

Surely those who constructed this object weren’t worried about aesthetics. The landowners needed somewhere to store their fodder, and the tall, cylindrical metal silo had proven its value on countless other properties in the area. Now, take this silo and allow it to be weathered, bent by the wind and rusted by the rain, forsaken by its owners and given over to the powerful hands of Nature. Robbed of its function, and now completely reliant on form, can this sight now be considered art? Timothy Hursley seems to think so, and he’s taken over a million (yes, a million) photographs to document that sight.

This silo of such intense interest stands near Greensboro, Alabama, in the heart of Hale County, the sprawling workshop of Auburn University’s Rural Studio. The Rural Studio works to create efficient and attractive architecture in the severely underserved Black Belt region of West Alabama, and Timothy Hursley has worked with the Studio as both a commissioned photographer and an independent promoter for over twenty years. Hailing from Detroit, Hursley moved to Little Rock, Arkansas, in 1980 to start his own architectural photography studio. He was instantly drawn to the South’s abundant vernacular architecture, the structures Words Christian Kerr PHOTOS Timothy Hursley

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created from local materials for the fundamental needs of the community. As his body of work grew, so did the quality of his résumé. He began being commissioned to photograph buildings by such household names as I.M. Pei and Frank Gehry, the latter of whom would influence his interest in a defunct relic of Alabama’s agricultural past.

One spring day in 2007, while driving from Marion to Greensboro for a Rural Studio shoot, Hursley’s roaming eye glimpsed something strange jutting from the flat, green landscape of the Black Belt’s back roads. He pulled over, asked and received permission from the object’s owner, and began shooting. What he captured was a crimped and twisted steel silo, beaten bent by time but refusing to fall completely. His modern art sensibilities told him the object was undoubtedly sculpture; reminding him of early Gehry architecture in its unnatural curves, and Philip Guston’s late paintings of cigarette butts in its grotesqueness. He would go home and arrange photographs of four different angles of the silo in a tetraptych that spoke to him of the object’s artistic possibilities. It became an almost mythical structure to him, like “something out of H.G. Wells’s War of the Worlds,” he’s quoted as saying.

Like all legends, the exact details of the silo’s origins are murky. Hursley once heard from an elderly man in a Greensboro hardware store that silos of the sort began popping up in the area in the mid-1950s; other sources

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say that a hurricane-spawned twister ripped through the area in the 80s, forcing the silo to bow the way it does today. During one of his many trips to the silo, a lady living on the property mentioned the silo might be getting scrapped. Hursley wouldn’t allow it.

He contacted the property owner, Towana Harris, and purchased the silo from her for $2000. He says that fellow Rural Studio photographer William Christenberry would take old street and traffic signs as souvenirs of his travels through the South. He laughs, claiming he’s doing the same, just on a much larger scale.

In October of 2011, Hursley decided to experiment with observing the silo in its environment by setting up a surveillance camera to photograph the scene every thirty seconds. With the help of the Rural Studio and the Harris family, the team positioned the camera, dug trenches for power lines, placed a system of LED lights to capture the sight by night, and set up a computer in a nearby trailer to download the camera’s continuous stream of images. The resulting photos are hauntingly beautiful. An edit of six months’ of images compressed into a five-minute video posted by the Oxford American demonstrates the product of Hursley’s vision. The Silo Cam, as Hursley calls it, shows the silo as a work of art constantly being shaped by its sculptor, Nature. As an electrical storm illuminates the darkness, the silo flashes like a bowing ghost of a South far-removed from what it is today, but as the downpour turns to drizzle

and the blackness turns to the grey of dawn, the silo still stands, defiant to the infinite forces of Nature that push against it, day after day, hour after hour. While Hursley states that his goal is not to capture the fall of the silo, he has noted that its angle has gotten more acute, and that it is, in fact, steadily coming closer to its fall.

So, after nearly two years of documentation, what plans are in store for the silo? Hursley himself isn’t even sure. He calls his work with the object “Project Unfolding,” because, like the Nature’s unending work on the structure, it is a work constantly in progress.

The success and positive responses from the art community have pushed Hursley to set up two other surveillance cameras on similar industrial objects. The Silo Cam is currently down due to technical problems with the power lines, but Hursley is interested in changing the angle of the camera to see what effect that would have on the photographs. Ultimately, he would love to see the silo removed from its rural context and placed in a city center, the juxtaposition of a defunct agrarian relic against the steel and glass of the urban landscape forcing the viewer to see it as sculpture, and Hursley is confident people will see it as such. All he needs now is a patron.

For more information on Timothy Hursley’s work with the Rural Studio, his photographs can be seen online at ruralstudio.org

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Too Tough To Live: Words Rebecca Seung

There’s this guy in town. You may have heard of him, but probably not. He doesn’t mind though; plenty of other folks have heard him and his signature punk-abilly swagger, and after a ten-year-long career, there’s a lot to hear.

With an extensive collection of records on labels including Birmingham’s Skybucket Records, the London-based One Little Indian (which boasts label mates such as Bjork and Paul McCartney to name a few), Swami Records in San Diego (founded by John Reis of Rocket from the Crypt fame), and even Jack White’s Third Man, this guy is Alabama’s best kept secret.

And his name is Dan Sartain. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, but a Montgomery resident off and on for about seven years now, he’s been playing shows since he was 14 - around the time when he dropped out of school.

“Dad knew how to play guitar, so there was always a guitar around. I had to beg and beg and beg to play guitar, and I started getting better at that, so eventually he warmed up to the idea of teaching me. As a reward system for getting a grade or something, he’d teach me a new chord, but I was learning the chords instead of getting the grades.”

Since then, he’s become a self-professed Jack of all instruments, even playing (almost) all of the instruments on his latest release Too Tough to Live, which includes a track from guest vocalist Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go’s. Having toured with the White Stripes and the Hives, amongst many others, namedropping is pretty easy when it comes to Sartain, but what’s more, he’s started to seek those names out. On his most recent 7” Love Is Suicide, he brought in Richie Ramone to play drums, and he’s not stopping there.

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“It’s expensive, that’s how I got into starting to do that stuff, cause my friends wanna get paid to do sessions and do things like that, and they ask about as much as these people who live in LA,” said Sartain. “My friends’ bands, I like them, but I don’t sit around and listen to them, and I definitely haven’t had the history with them. But bands like the Ramones or The Go-Go’s or X, those are people I’ve been listening to for 30 years now, I’ve been listening to them my whole life. And they’re still working, they’re still out there looking for work.

And I figure that people who do this kind of thing, that they figure a day working in entertainment is better than a day not working in entertainment.”

Although music has defined most of his life, Sartain has maintained a curiosity about other professions, from auto mechanics and construction to hair styling, even shortly attending a barber school at one point. He also has a deep obsession with all things cinema, most notably Star Trek and horror flicks.

“I want to work again, I want to get back into it. You can’t goof off your whole life and then go and get what everybody else has been working for... I still love music, but at some point, you just outgrow your own usefulness. I can keep going, but I know what to expect out of it now. I know what I can get out of it.

And it’s good, and it’s nicer to know. I keep getting reassured.”

“Every time I go back over to Europe, I think they forgot about me, or the audience won’t be there, but they are, they come back. And they’re good, you know. And I keep thinking they aren’t gonna do it forever, but maybe they will.

If you don’t expect to do much more than play to several people at a bar which is what I wanna do - if you expect that when you go out, and you get it, I’m fine with that.”

Dan Sartain’s Romance In Stereo album is out now - listen and download at joindansartain.bandcamp.com For tour dates and more info, visit dansartain.com. To read the full interview, visit the Music section at madepaper.com.

Follow more music news with Rebecca Seung on her blog getbent.fm.

SPACES Events July 19-28 W.C. Handy Music Festival Florence, Alabama

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July 5 The Rich Hands & Holy Youth El Rey / Leroy Alleyway

Get Bent! presents The Rich Hands & Holy Youth event outdoors between these two great spots.

Music, drinks, food and more.

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Can You Dig It!

Summer Teen Program Teaches about Food in Their Homes and Community Deeontee is having fun teasing his little sister, Kiara. He thinks the fennel salad he just made is better than Kiara’s basil pesto pasta. Josh, on the other side of the kitchen, quietly focuses on his Mediterranean squash sautée. None of these teens had ever prepared a meal that required directions and measuring utensils, much less ingredients that they, themselves, had grown and harvested.

Deeontee, Kiara and Josh are summer youth interns with EAT South’s Can You Dig It! (CYDI) summer employment program. Every summer, EAT South employs teenage youth to engage in an 8-week program based on sustainable agriculture, food systems, and preparing and consuming fresh local food. Each day looks different for these teens when they show up to work at 7 a.m., Monday through Friday. One day they could be at EAT South’s Hampstead Farm in 98 degree heat harvesting food and picking weeds, the next day they could be in a classroom learning how to read nutrition labels. By the end of the week, they could be at “Petals from the Past” learning about fruit production, picking and eating blueberries and blackberries. That’s a pretty sweet job to have (no pun intended).

All three teens are from the West Montgomery, where the public elementary schools have free and reduced lunch programs for over 90% of their students. The CYDI teens are involved in addressing food issues at these schools and in their own home. Every morning CYDI takes care

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of the school gardens at E.D. Nixon and Wares Ferry elementary schools. Both schools are a part of EAT South’s A Garden in Every School, a School in Every Garden program. During the school year, EAT South facilitates garden education programs with the students at these elementary schools while training teachers how to use the gardens to teach math and science. When school is out for the summer, CYDI goes into those schools, expands the infrastructure of the garden, plants food, and maintains the garden until the students return.

While the CYDI-ers are helping sustain change in their neighborhoods, they are also trying to create change in their own homes. When the teens go home at night, they know how to grow and prepare their own food. The teens have been incredibly motivated, taking home extra plants from the greenhouse on the first week of work and preparing meals for their families.

Growing up as a teen on the west side, trouble is right around the corner - whether you are looking for it or not. More teens from neighborhoods like West Montgomery should be engaged in a summer of learning, hard work, and fun. Given EAT South can find the resources from our community to expand CYDI, next year more teens will have the opportunity to help their communities and help themselves. For now, at least three teens will go home and make changes in the most important place for change to start in their homes and their communities.

What Is A “Community Supported Agriculture” (CSA) Program ?

It’s simple: members sign up for a season of vegetables (Spring, Summer, Fall), pay in advance, then pick up a box of fresh veggies and fruit every week of the season.

Easy and delicious!

Members of a CSA buy a subscription to the farm early in the year, which helps to pay for the seeds and farm equipment needed to get the season rolling. Additional revenue from the CSA program supports EAT South’s farms and children’s education programs.

The CSA program is offered three times each year. CSA members visit our Downtown Farm or Hampstead Farm to pick up a weekly harvest of in-season, naturallygrown vegetables, fruits, and herbs freshly harvested

from both farms. Participants receive a family-sized variety of produce valued at $25 and a newsletter complete with healthy recipes and updates about farm life and events. A limited number of work/trade positions are available each season.

Produce grown at our EAT South farms for the CSA includes:

Cut Flowers, Herbs, Peppers, Eggplant, Tomatoes, Melons, Green Beans, Sugar Peas, Arugula, Sweet Potatoes, Fennel, Collard Greens, Turnips, Shelling Peas, Onions, Squash, Cucumbers, Beets, Kale, Broccoli, Broccoli Raab, Kohlrabi, Lettuce, Choi, Pumpkins, Carrots, Radishes, Chilies, Chard, Spinach, Tomatoes, Cabbage For info regarding EAT South’s CSA program, email jetson@eatsouth.org

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