Northern Neck Master Gardeners

The Northern Neck Master Gardeners will once again be at the market with materials on what to do in the month of May in your garden including information on ticks and tick-borne disease; the International year of soil sponsored by USDA as well as answers to all of your gardening questions. Rain barrels are on sale to guard against summer droughts as well as information on what plants to use for shoreline maintenance. Special this month is the schedule for the "Go Wild" day at the Hutchinson tract just north of Tappahannock. Stop by and say hello – all the Master Gardeners love to talk about gardening!!!

Kirsten Hazler Sings to the Market

Kirsten Hazler is this month's featured musician.  Inspired by countless nights harmonizing with a Dylanesque friend, Haze bought her first guitar and started writing songs at age 25  A decade later, she released the album Recovery with her band Cycle of Addiction in Athens, Georgia.  Now based in Richmond, Virginia, Haze performs regularly as half of the duo Haze & Dacey.  Haze covers a variety of artists including Patty Griffin, Joni Mitchell, and Kathleen Edwards.  Her own songwriting is driven by good intentions, messy entanglements, and ditched resolutions; guilt and forgiveness; sweet-talking boys and tortured, troubled men; beautiful broken women and the girls they used to be.  Take time to listen and enjoy!

Artist for May: Sally Honenberger and TAG

As this month's Featured Artist, local photographer and writer Sarah "Sally" Honenberger will offer a selection from Tappahannock Art Guild artists including original photos and her latest river country novel, MINDING HENRY LEWIS, 2015 winner of the Virginia Professional Communicators contest. Honenberger's fiction has won numerous national awards, including first place in New Millenium, SouthLit, and the Antietam Review, nominations for the Library of Virginia Award, second in the F. Scott Fitzgerald Literary Competition, and semi-finalist in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Contest. Her first Rappahannock River novel CATCHER, CAUGHT is a Pen/Faulkner selection for its Writers in Schools program. More TAG artwork will be available at the Prince Street gallery during expanded Famers Market hours from 9 to 4. The Women's Club Youth Art show just opened in the gallery along with a show by watercolorist Jackie Leavitt and oil painter Carol Wollstein. Original photo "Summer Bedtime" by Sarah Collins Honenberger, the Rte 17 Wildlife Refuge barn at sunset.