Rent your own garden plot at the Peace & Carrots Community Garden for $40 for the year, or $25 for six months.
A church and a community that sows together, grows together.
This is just one of the aims of the La Verne Church of the Brethren’s gardening group that has broken ground on a roughly 50-foot-by-150-foot parcel of land that once served as a pre-school playground and Nature Park.
Dedicated September 6, 2009, with an official ribbon-cutting scheduled [...]
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What’s the best way to make the best part of the year even a little more special? Come “Home for the Holidays.”
That’s the name and theme for this year’s 2009 La Verne Holiday Home Tour, which will be held Nov. 21 from 2 p.m. to 7 p.m., when the public will be invited to tour [...]
At 80 years young, everything is coming up roses for owner Jim Coiner. He along with his son James, operations manager, and John Mellon, general manager, run Coiner Nursery, which boasts operations in Wasco, Calif. (San Joaquin Valley), El Monte and La Verne.
This is no budding operation. In particular, Jim has spent more than 60 [...]
Outdoor Elegance, a high-end outdoor living and patio design center, attracted many of the Southland’s top designers to its 13,000-square-foot La Verne showroom where they met Tuesday evening with industry representatives of the world’s leading outdoor furniture manufacturers.
The invitation-only event was the brainchild of Outdoor Elegance owner Doug Sanicola, whose vision is to make Outdoor [...]
For two summers in the mid-70s, Devon Hartman worked as a stone mason and carpenter at a French castle in the heart of the Burgundy region. A friend whom he met while studying French in Paris had inherited a chateau and invited Devon to help him restore it.
After one particularly long day, he laid his [...]
On April 29 at 7 p.m. at Vroman’s Bookstore in Pasadena, author Amy Stewart, who normally resides in the Northern California hinterlands, will be speaking about her new book “Wicked Plants: The Weed That Killed Lincoln’s Mother & Other Botanical Atrocities.” The short trip to Pasadena could save your life. Plus, her talk comes just [...]
Joann Lammens, the artist and moving force behind Gina T Interior Accents and Gina T HOME in downtown La Verne, is an extraordinary business woman and even more remarkable interior designer. That her stores continue to thrive and flourish when so many “discretionary consumer” businesses have gone under in this recession is a testament to [...]
