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Molly Brown House, Tuesday, March 5, 5-7pm
Denver Botanic Gardens, Saturday, March 9. Get out and see some early flowers. Reservations required.
Denver Art Museum, Tuesday, March 12, Sunday, March 24.
Denver Restaurant Week, March 1–10. Three- course meals at 4 price points, $25, $35, $45, and $55 at a wide variety of restaurants.
https://www.denver.org/denver-
St Patrick’s Day Parade, Saturday, March 16, Bands, floats, and more.
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Frozen Dead Guy Days, Estes Park, March 15 – March 17. Looking for something different to do? Coffin races, Frozen Games Polar Plunge, three music stages, and more. https://frozendeadguydays.com/
Monte Vista Crane Festival, March 8 -10. Get away to the San Luis valley for great scenery, tours, and wildlife. https://mvcranefest.
For more ideas check out https://www.colorado.com/
And the garden season begins. Check out the seed selections online. I like Botanical Interests, Renee’s Garden, and High Desert Seed and Gardens.
You can start your seeds inside for cool weather crops and annuals including kale, radish, broccoli, beets, Swiss chard, and salad greens. By late March, if the soil has warmed up, you can put in bare-root fruits, trees, and shrubs.
Leave your impulse-buying tendencies at home and go visit the garden centers. Have a list if you are buying seeds, if I don’t, I usually end up with enough to start a small farm. Be sure to have a garden plan in mind. Check out gardening classes, your local county extension office for help with planning and the best cultivars for your area, and the many great gardening books available. I love the library for this and also used books from Better World Books, https://www.betterworldbooks.com.
For all things gardening, I like the gardening blog: https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/
Plantain is one of those wild weeds that grows nearly everywhere and is a great first-aid plant. There are many species of plantain but the most common are the lance leaf plantain and the broad leaf plantain. You can find both in wild places, disturbed land, your backyard, a city sidewalk, basically wherever there is greenery.
Plantain is an edible green, best collected in the spring when young and tender. Use in salads or like spinach in cooked dishes. A mild acting plant, it is anti-inflammatory and helps to heal both internally and externally. Often used in salves and as a poultice to draw out inflammation and great for use on insect bites, stings, and skin rashes. Internally used as tea or in a smoothie, it helps with digestive inflammatory conditions and as an expectorant. The seeds of plantain are a mild laxative.
Spring drew on...and a greeness grew over those brown beds, which, freshening daily, suggested the thought that Hope traversed them at night, and left each morning brighter traces of her steps. - Charlotte Bronte