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Beginning December 5th, 2009, Fleming Island Farmer’s Market will open it’s doors to the local community every Saturday rain or shine!
The market will be located at the parking lot of Fleming Island Shoppes off Highway 17, at the Village Square Parkway.
For more information on this market, please email info@globalgreenup.com or call 904 236 9966/407 595 3052
The Fall Festival of Houses and Gardens takes place in Beaufort, South Carolina on October 23 – 25, 2009.
Founded in 1711, Beaufort, South Carolina, located between Charleston and Savannah, GA, is South Carolina’s largest National Historic Landmark District. During the Fall Festival of Houses and Gardens, visitors get to explore a variety of private homes, churches, gardens and plantations rarely open to the public. The sites represent three centuries of architecture for which the city is justly famous. These are self-paced walking tours.
Candlelight Walking Tour
Friday, Oct. 23, 2009
5:00pm to 8:00pm or 5:30pm to 8:30pm
The Candlelight Walking tour is a self paced tour highlighting seven historic houses, dating from the 1820s through the 20th century. Explore the rich architecture in the National Historic Landmark District of Beaufort. In addition, the colonial revival First Presbyterian Church (1929) will be open.
Tickets are $40.00 each
Ramble Around Beaufort
Saturday, October 24, 2009
10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. or 11:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
This tour gives you a chance to ramble through historic antebellum, Victorian and early 20th century homes and buildings in Beaufort’s National Historic Landmark District. This tour will also includes one of Beaufort’s most distinctive gardens, (the Henry Farmer House Garden) and the charming Gothic Revival Beth Israel Synagogue. Continue on to the grounds of historic Pick Pocket Plantation by car (approximately five miles from downtown).
Boxed lunches on the Green in the old Point Neighborhood are available for an additional $16.00.
Tickets are $40.00 each
Lunch tickets are $16.00 each
Kitchens & Cuisine Tour
Sunday, October 26, 2008
12:00 to 3:00 p.m. or 12:30 to 3:30 p.m.
Experience culinary Beaufort! Local chefs create regional specialties in six private kitchens in downtown historic Beaufort. Enjoy them with a glass of wine and tour six houses which are a mix of antebellum and contemporary houses in the historic district. (All but one are walkable, the sixth site requires automobile transportation).
For more information and tickets visit the website
The Jacksonville Fall Home & Patio comes to the Prime Osborn Center in Jacksonville, Florida, October 1 – 4, 2009.
This year’s event is packed with activities and happenings. Find out what’s available for your home from flooring, furniture, home improvements, cabinets, doors, security systems and much much more.
If you’re considering home improvement, visit the show to get ideas and great tips before you get started. The 21st Annual Fall Jacksonville Home & Patio Show has answers to most of your home improvement questions.
Read our top 10 things to do at the Jacksonville Home & Patio Show here.
The 33rd Annual Fall Tours of Homes & Gardens in Charleston, SC, feature beautiful gardens and architecturally significant homes, churches and public buildings. The tours highlights the very best of American architecture from the early Georgian Period up to and including the 21st century. Each tour features a unique neighborhood representing Charleston’s culture from the Colonial era to the present. The tours take place from September 24- October 25, 2009.
Most of the properties are privately owned and are open to the public exclusively for the Annual Fall Tours of Homes and Gardens. Volunteer guides will interpret the history, architecture and decorative arts of each property.
The tours take place on Thursday and Friday evenings from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m., and Saturday and Sunday afternoons from 2:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. All tours are self-paced walking tours held on the peninsula of Charleston within the city’s various historic neighborhoods.
The Fall Tours of Homes and Gardens is the Preservation Society’s annual fund raising event. Tickets are $45.00 per person, per tour and may be purchased only through the Preservation Society of Charleston online at www.preservationsociety.org or by calling (843)722-4630.
Forget voting for your favorite “American Idol”, or Americas most popular dancer in “So You Think You Can Dance”, now there’s a more important question on the world wide web — where is the most popular Farmers Market in the country?
This popularity contest is sponsored by Care2.com and Local Harvest. Over the weekend, Fernandina Farmers Market climbed the list and is now Number Three with 3,744 votes, which even made the local news in Knoxville TN, run out and do a special report from Market Square, Knoxville, their favorite local farmers market, currently in fourth place with 3,070 votes.
(Here is the link to the complete Tennessee story)
Are we going to let Tennessee win?Let get our people in and vote.
Go Fernandina!
Make sure to visit this website right now and place your vote
and help them win $5,000.
Also, Riverside Arts Market from Jacksonville is in spot 33.
You can also add your favorite market to the contest. There are lots of markets in Florida, Georgia and South Carolina who are not yet on the list.
