Green Scene: This week's greenie news 

  Alice Waters, original foodie and creator of Berkeley, California’s Chez Panisse, made a stop at Buford Middle School’s City Schoolyard Garden last week. (Cramer Photo) This spring, goats have loomed large in what I think of as the headlines of our household: “Goats Escape; Are Recaptured. “Novice Farmers Await Birth of Unknown Number of Kids.” […]

Gardening with native plants in a time of change

Trillium, a spring ephemeral, flourishes on gardener Carol Angle’s Albemarle property. (Photo by Andrea Hubbell) Is this the hill? Is this the kirk? Is this mine own countree? —Samuel Taylor Coleridge A fascination with native flora—plants growing here before European settlement—has a venerable history in Charlottesville, and if you can’t guess who it traces to, […]

PACE clinic helps uphold performance agreement for MJH

Residents of the Martha Jefferson neighborhood breathed a sigh of relief when the CFA Institute announced its decision to move into the site of the former hospital last year. Now, UVA is moving toward opening a Programs of All-Inclusive Care for the Elderly (PACE) clinic in the building, bringing more diversity to the site and a new program to Charlottesville.

Tom Tom takes aim at local innovation

The weekend of music that caps off the Tom Tom Founders Festival in May will draw 40 acts and has generated plenty of buzz, but over the course of the next month, festival organizers are steering the city’s attention to a series of talks that put business innovation, not bands, in the spotlight.