Orlando Event TV interviews Ann Lemis of Green Sky Growers, a technologically sophisticated and sustainable rooftop garden in Winter Garden, Florida.
This 4th-floor hydroponic sustainable garden is located immediately next to the Garden Theatre in a city called Winter Garden, which is just comical. Green Sky sells their lettuce and other products to 8 local restaurants and at the local weekly farmer’s market. See more video about Winter Garden at the Daily City.
As I get older, I tend to have more and more visitors come down looking for a break from the rest of the world. Orlando can be a pretty good place to do that. It’s one of the top vacation spots, after all!
As we have people visit, we’ve started to compile a list of activities (some are mega-touristy) and restaurants that we can recommend to everyone. Here they are, in no particular order:
- The Wine Room
- Disney’s Animal Kindgom
- Cafe Tu Tu Tango
- White Wolf Cafe
- Funky Monkey Wine Co
- El Coqui Mexicano
- Gatorland Zoo (Go Orlando Card
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- Sky Venture Orlando
- Florida Ecosafaris Zip Line (Go Orlando Card
- A Day Away Kayaks – Bioluminescent Night Kayak Trip
- Blue Man Group Orlando
- SAK Improv Comedy Lab
- Sea World Orlando
- Wild Willy’s Airboat Rides
- Bok Tower and Gardens
- Manatee watching at Blue Springs (cold weather months)
- The Old Spanish Sugar Mill Pancake House, DeLeon Springs
- Disney Hollywood Studios (formery MGM)
- The Ravenous Pig
- Hamburger Mary’s Hambingo (Gay Bingo, Tuesday Night)
- Farris and Foster’s Chocolate Date Night
- Leu Gardens
- Kennedy Space Center (Go Orlando Card
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Mike Anello (ultimike) recently talked with Lynn Beighley, author of Drupal For Dummies from Wiley Publishing.
Update: Elizabeth Maupin has launched an independent Orlando theatre blog.
After almost 26 years on the staff of the Orlando Sentinel, Elizabeth Maupin has been writing and creating community togetherness. For my part in this game, I'd like to congratulate her and wish her the best.
Above: Maupin with Boris the Robot at the Orlando Fringe. Boris is a retired robot. As of this post, Maupin is a retired Journalist.
Join Mike and Ryan as they sit down and discuss the latest Drupal news including Florida DrupalCamp 2010, Drupal 7 progress, Drupal jobs and more.
This reminds me of an old joke…
A smurf, a dragon-lady, and a witch doctor walk in to a bar. The robot bartender asks…
Thunder Hag
Curious about the lineup of this band, I dug a bit and discovered a link to Hannah, Brian Feldman’s wife, who he married for artistic and political reasons last week.
Join Mike Anello as he talks to Jesse Feiler, the author of Sams Teach Yourself Drupal in 24 Hours from Pearson Education.
Mike and Jesse talk about the beginnings of database-driven web sites, teaching the concepts of Drupal, usability in Drupal, Russians and COBOL (seriously!), and who should really be responsible for your web site.
Doug Vann (dougvann) joins Ryan Price (liberatr) in a man-to-man talk about training for Drupal, Doug's Drupal Genesis story, Florida DrupalCamp, and Doug's work with Drupal in the last 3 years, most recently for Duo Consulting in Chicago.
Who: The Fair Trade Project
When & Where: Saturday, March 6 at 2:30pm @ Austin’s Coffee
RSVP on Facebook
The Fair Trade Project is holding a poker run–bike style! Registration is only $5 and will start at 2:30pm at Austin’s. The 10+ mile ride will start at 4 and take you to local stores that sell fair trade: Chamberlin’s Natural Foods, Enzian Theater, Ten Thousand Villages, Whole Foods and Austin’s. You’ll pick up a playing card at each stop to complete your poker hand.
We’ll have great prizes from each stop for the person with the best hand, plus additional prizes, including great stuff from local bike shops. After we give out the prizes at 6:30, we’ll have a free show featuring local music.
Even if you don’t participate in the ride, we hope you’ll join us for the show. See you there!
Read more from The Fair Trade Project Facebook Page:
The Fair Trade Project seeks to help disadvantaged producers receive a just price for their goods while building relationships and encouraging social and environmental responsibility. When people are paid a fair price for what they produce, they can pull themselves, their families, and their communities out of poverty.
You can make a difference simply by buying fair trade products.
Who thought this was a good idea? ORLANDO TO THE EXTREME!
All the right video clips, all the WRONG edits, effects, and titles. I seriously want to barf right now.
Give ANYONE with 3 ounces of talent access to your video library - there are some really great things in there, I’m sure, and you must have spent so much money capturing and acquiring all of that footage (or someone did), why would you then let a 3-year-old with a mouse and keyboard near it?
I apologize to the person who did the editing - you may have just been following orders, but they were BAD orders.
What what what ….. Wendell Berry is in Florida?
Yes my friends it is true. Wendell Berry one of my favorite authors is speaking at Stetson University in a free lecture series Monday night the 1st of February. I’m heading up to attend the lecture and I can’t even express how excited I am. Berry’s non-fiction writing has played a pivotal role in developing many of my beliefs. Through his writing I’ve come to appreciate the importance of nurturing of our local community, that the good life is more than consuming and that working with the earth, even in the middle of a modern city, is vitally important to the health and well-being of my family.
The lecture is sponsored by the university’s Values Council. His talk, “Simple Solutions and Package Deals,” is based on the council’s theme for the year, “How Shall We Live?”. Berry will be discussing the impact of economic globalization on the way we live and it’s sure to be lecture chock-full of thought provoking ideas.
According to Berry, the good life includes sustainable agriculture, appropriate technologies, healthy rural communities, connection to place, the pleasures of good food, husbandry, good work, local economics, the miracle of life, fidelity, frugality, reverence, and the interconnectedness of life (via wiki).
Here are the details of the lecture: Stetson University at 7:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 1, in the Lee Chapel of Elizabeth Hall, 421 N. Woodland Blvd. The event is free and the public is invited to attend.
Hope to see you there.
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Behind the scenes video production in Orlando, FL of a tv commercial using the RED camera and a motion control rig to create a unique look and feel.
There was a bit of technical difficulty this morning regarding the Conference Championship Sunday show, but rest assured it is now repaired for your listening pleasure
The SoTG and Weasel bring you the games that determined this season's SUPER BOWL.