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This weekend brought a couple of new ideas for me in the form of a local arts and crafts fair in our town square. My family shopped the farmers market on Saturday (bought: cut flowers, lemongrass, lemonade, cookies) and we were surprised to see a major art fair a couple of blocks away.
One of the coolest booths there was an art business called Vincent Van Gourd. I can't stop thinking about how this couple takes a simple gourd and transforms it into a wonderful piece of decorative art. A gourd! They grow and produce prolificly and their many shapes and sizes lend them to many creative options.
So while most of the customers were asking technical questions about "how-to" on the art, I was the garden geek asking about growing gourds! While I personally have trouble painting the side of a barn, much less an artistic object, I can grow the raw materials that some other enterprising artist will use to make beauty.
Dried flowers and grasses are another option that pop to mind. Do you have recommendations to pass along to our readers? I'd personally love to hear your experiences and ideas!
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Denise Burns is a wife to Mike and a mother to Cooper, William and Eston. Their family farm website can be found at Burns Best Farm and she blogs here at Homestead Blogger on a blog of the same name. She is spending Labor Day picking the last of the tomatoes in a very weedy garden!
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