Podcasts about boxwood

What are the markets for the common species of lumber you find at your hardwood lumber dealer. I delve into who is buying what and for what. Plus further discussion about logging in national forest land, wood movement and heat, buying veneer, and harvesting Boxwood.

This week the girls mix inappropriate metaphors with vague certainties, and come up with yet another episode to amuse and inform their eight listeners. Without an ounce of humility, Leslie jumps out of the gate with nonsense about a distillery (possibly illegal) where she condenses her vast garden experience into enviable, crystal-clear drops of purity…and assumes Marianne does likewise. Marianne reminds her that they are both just old — however not too old to enjoy a long, luscious, beautiful, lingering, sensuous, gratifying, fully-satisfying-smoke-a-cigarette spring. Let's hope they both get one soon. Other topics this episode include Nancy Goodwin's garden at Montrose, Blight resistant boxwood, the wonders of The Mid-Atlantic Nursery and Trade Show, and what a bird table or feeder can do for your state of mind. (As in, smoke-a-cigarette-afterwards-joy.) _______________________________________ Full show notes, links, and laughs at: thegardenmixerpodcast.substack.com

In this episode, Ken Lain The Mountain Gardener chats about winter gem boxwood and the best companion plants of January. Learn all the best plants to put in your garden along with the Winter Gem Boxwood.Listen to Mountain Gardener on Cast11: https://cast11.com/mountain-gardener-with-ken-lain-gardening-podcast/Follow Cast11 on Facebook: https://Facebook.com/CAST11AZFollow Cast11 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cast11_podcast_network/

Scratch golfer Pat Galleher ends up in the tangled fescue that is Middle Market Musings.  Pat is Managing Partner of Boxwood Partners, the middle market investment bank based in Richmond, VA and Jupiter, FL.  Pat details his youth in and around golf courses, including encounters with a young Tiger Woods, which compels Charlie to offer Pat and Andy a complicated hypothetical involving Tiger, prison and some money.  After college at the University of Richmond, Pat honed his sales and operational expertise at a global financial communications firm, becoming the youngest CEO listed on the London Stock Exchange.  Since co-founding Boxwood in 2008 Pat has led more than 75 engagements, including over 35 franchisor sell-side transactions.  A fast paced tour of the successful mindset common to business and competitive sports. 

Boxwood and tomato blight, pruning lilacs and honeysuckle shrubs, and burying pots of hostas and redbud plants are all covered this week on the Garden Show. Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio

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fWotD Episode 2676: Gothic boxwood miniature Welcome to Featured Wiki of the Day, your daily dose of knowledge from Wikipedia’s finest articles.The featured article for Sunday, 1 September 2024 is Gothic boxwood miniature.Gothic boxwood miniatures are very small Christian-themed wood sculptures produced during the 15th and 16th centuries in the Low Countries, at the end of the Gothic period and during the emerging Northern Renaissance. They consist of highly intricate layers of reliefs, often rendered to nearly microscopic level, and are made from boxwood, which has a fine grain and high density suitable for detailed micro-carving. There are around 150 surviving examples; most are spherical rosary beads (known as prayer nuts), statuettes, skulls, or coffins; some 20 are in the form of polyptychs, including triptych and diptych altarpieces, tabernacles and monstrances. The polyptychs are typically 10–13 cm in height. Most of the beads are 10–15 cm in diameter and designed so they could be held in the palm of a hand, hung from necklaces or belts, or worn as fashionable accessories.Boxwood miniatures were highly prized in the early 16th century. Their iconography, form, and utility can be linked to medieval ivory carvings, as well as contemporary illuminated miniatures, altarpieces, panel paintings, sculpture, woodcuts, and engravings. They typically contain imagery from the life of Mary, the Crucifixion of Jesus, or vistas of Heaven and Hell. Each miniature's production required exceptional craftsmanship, and some may have taken decades of cumulative work to complete, suggesting that they were commissioned by high-ranking nobles.A number of the miniatures appear to have come from a workshop led by Adam Dircksz, who is thought to have produced dozens of such works. Almost nothing is known about him or the artisans who produced the miniatures. Some of the original owners can be identified from markings, usually initials or coats of arms, emplaced by the sculptors. Important collections of boxwood miniatures are in the Art Gallery of Ontario, in the British Museum as part of the Waddesdon Bequest, and at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Because of their rarity and the difficulty in discerning their intricacy from reproductions, boxwood miniatures have not been as widely studied as other forms of Netherlandish visual art.This recording reflects the Wikipedia text as of 00:30 UTC on Sunday, 1 September 2024.For the full current version of the article, see Gothic boxwood miniature on Wikipedia.This podcast uses content from Wikipedia under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License.Visit our archives at wikioftheday.com and subscribe to stay updated on new episodes.Follow us on Mastodon at @wikioftheday@masto.ai.Also check out Curmudgeon's Corner, a current events podcast.Until next time, I'm neural Olivia.

Yellow leaves on Katsura, box tree moth persistence and a tiny Redbud in a pot are all covered this week. Plus, how to feed Venus flytrap? Hollyhock from seed, pesky deer flies and more on the Garden Show! Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio

The Box Tree Moth is wreaking havoc on many gardens in southern Ontario and beyond. We discuss identifying the pest, pesticides (BTK) to control, and callers chime in with best replacements for boxwood. Overgrown lilac, and the search for Campanula isophylla also covered this week on the Garden Show. Listen live every Saturday at 9am on Zoomer Radio

The Grumpy Gardener addresses a reader's question about a browning boxwood. Plus, Grumpy's tips on how to prevent the dreaded boxwood blight. You can find us online at southernliving.com/askgrumpy Ask Grumpy Credits: Steve Bender aka The Grumpy Gardener - Host Nellah McGough - Co-Host Krissy Tiglias - GM, Southern Living Lottie Leymarie - Executive Producer Michael Onufrak - Audio Engineer/Producer Isaac Nunn - Recording Tech Jennifer Del Sole - Director of Audio Growth Strategy & Operations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Ken Lain, the Mountain Gardener, talks about Winter Gem Boxwood, one of the Watters January Companion Plants. What is the best way to care for this evergreen plant? Listen in to find out.Listen to Ken Lain's weekly gardener podcast. You can also listen to Ken Lain's Mountain Gardener Radio Show Live on Saturdays at 8 am & 11 am and again on Sundays at 8 am on KQNA, and 11:30 am on 95.5 & 99.9FM.Follow Cast11 on Facebook: https://Facebook.com/CAST11AZFollow Cast11 on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cast11_podcast_network/Listen to Mountain Gardener on Cast11: https://mountaingardener.buzzsprout.com or wherever you stream podcasts.

It's Winter right? The weather has been warm and there is some weird things going on. My lawn is green and customers alerted us about their bulbs sprouting. Should you do something about it? We'll tell you in our first segment! There's a NEW trend for 2024, Edimentals! Plants that are both edible and ornamental that are used in the garden and landscape! Boxwood blight is a disease with no known cure. It has adversely affected the nursery industries $170 million dollar boxwood production. We discuss the details and alternative plants to use during our 3rd segment. The hottest Plant on the Planet right now is the Hydrangea Eclipse hear all about it in our 4th segment!  I recently filed out the NJ Tree Survey. It asked some interesting questions that we'll discuss In our final segment.

My guest this week is Belgian nurseryman Karel Goossens. Karel runs an internationally renowned nursery supplying box plants and is the Chariman of the Belgian arm of the European Boxwood & Topiary Society. With decades of experience growing box and an irreverent approach to tackling the problems that go along with it, when he was recommended to me, I thought he was my ideal sort of guest! He does recommend intensive cultivation methods which include spraying chemical fungicides and insecticides, so this epsiode is not for everyone. However, I do acknowledge that many historic gardens are built around a backbone of box and that many listeners are professional gardeners who deal with box and its attendant blights, so this epsiode is a practical look at what you can do.  Dr Ian Bedford's Bug of the Week: Box Tree Moth Links Kwekerij Goossens on Instagram European Boxwood & Topiary Society Karel's website for tripod ladders Our Plant Stories with Sally Flatman Other episodes if you liked this one: Lawns with David Hedges-Gower Hiring a Garden Designer

In this episode of Down the Garden Path, Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss the three types of holly and their popularity as a replacement for boxwoods. Here are some of the topics covered in this episode: Two notable holly species to add for winter interest in your garden. Ilex aquifolium, Common or Christmas Holly: evergreen with slightly sharp leaves and red berries on the female plants Ilex verticillata, Winterberry: North American native, deciduous holly Honourable mention: Ilex glabra, Inkberry: An evergreen native to the Eastern US and Canada but not in Ontario. Compact with shiny leaves it could be a Boxwood replacement in areas where it is hardy. Resources mentioned during the show Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden Down the Garden Path Podcast Each week on Down The Garden Path, professional landscape designers Joanne Shaw and Matthew Dressing discuss down-to-earth tips and advice for your plants, gardens and landscapes. As the owner of Down2Earth Landscape Design, Joanne Shaw has been designing beautiful gardens for homeowners east of Toronto for over a decade. A horticulturist and landscape designer, Matthew Dressing owns Natural Affinity Garden Design, a landscape design and garden maintenance firm servicing Toronto and the Eastern GTA. Together, they do their best to bring you interesting, relevant and useful topics to help you keep your garden as low maintenance as possible. In their book, Down the Garden Path: A Step-By-Step Guide to Your Ontario Garden, Joanne and Matthew distill their horticultural and design expertise and their combined experiences in helping others create and maintain thriving gardens into one easy-to-read monthly reference guide. It's now available on Amazon. Don't forget to check out Down the Garden Path on your favourite podcast app and subscribe to be notified of new content. You can now catch the podcast on YouTube and Patreon.

Bob meets Caroline from the Civic Garden Center and invites her to talk about a subject she is really tired of! Join us for the good the bad and the ugly about boxwood a plant that seems to be everywhere. Our sources about boxwood include: Where they came from and why they became the universal standard Why we gotta get rid of them What we can replace them with/ What do we gotta do to get more American Yew

So we've had a freeze and your annuals, even your Mum's are looking really bad! There are some ornamental plants you can plant right now that will last for a really long time! Hear what they are in the first segment. Camelias are an underused broadleaved evergreen that can be grown in our area with a little bit of help. Hear how to get these cold weather bloomers to grow in your yard during our second segment! We have a call from a listener in North Jersey! She had Questions about planting Bulbs and growing Boxwood in containers. The call continued with Maryanne's Husband asking her to ask us a question about giving squirrels a hot tongue! During our final segment we received two text messages that couldn't be more different! First up is a question about Hydrangeas and second is about tomatoes! 

When is it time to transition out of the game and focus on being a franchisee or even further your growth as a franchisor? During this episode, we take a deep dive into all things exit strategy with Brian Alas, Managing Director at Boxwood Partners. Boxwood is a mid-market mergers and acquisition firm with a keen focus on franchising. Brian shares sell-side insights and from-the-trenches perspectives, helping multi-unit franchisees and growing franchise systems sell to institutional investors. From operating a franchise system and thresholds for exits to next-level strategic growth for franchisors, Brian gives us a show full of great insights that you don't want to miss. So tune in and learn more tools for success in the franchising world.

This week, Dee and Carol talk about growing flowers for cutting, how they add beauty to their vegetable gardens, a new-to-them book, and boxwoods.More info in our Substack newsletter!Some helpful links!The velvet ant, aka the cow killerCarol's FH article on gardening glovesQueeny Lime Orange Zinnia seeds from Botanical InterestsOn the Bookshelf: Grow and Gather: A Gardener's Guide to a Year of Cut Flowers, by Grace Alexander (Amazon link)  Boxwood winter dieback info Boxwood Browning, Blights, and Cankers – 2023 Update  and Re-Visiting Volutella and Browned Boxwoods | BYGL plus Bob Hill on Boxwood Winter - GardenRantTaste of Home's Sausage Ratatouille to use up a lot of garden veggies… Our Affiliates (Linking to them to make a purchase earns us a small commission):Botanical InterestsFarmers DefenseEtsyTerritorial SeedsTrue Leaf Market Eden BrosBook and Amazon links are also affiliate links.Email us anytime at TheGardenangelists@gmail.com  For more info on Carol  visit her website.  Visit her blog May Dreams Gardens. For more info on Dee, visit her website.  Visit her blog Red Dirt Ramblings.Support the showOn Instagram: Carol: Indygardener, Dee: RedDirtRamblings, Our podcast: TheGardenangelists.On Facebook: The Gardenangelists' Garden Club.On YouTube.

Ron takes your calls. Also Buggy Joe is in OT today taking Boxwood/boxtree moths.

Do you want to jazz up your indoor or outdoor space this summer? Then consider upgrading it with an artificial boxwood hedge, living wall, or planter from Brooklyn West (1-646-974-8891) in Brooklyn, NYC. Go to https://www.fauxboxwood.com to find out more. Brooklyn West LLC 140 58th. Street, Building A, Unit 5N-2, Brooklyn, New York 11220, United States Website https://www.fauxboxwood.com Email prc.pressagency@gmail.com

 In this episode of Ask Grumpy, Steve Bender, Southern Living's Grumpy Gardener, helps a reader deal with spider mites attacking an Alberta spruce. Plus, he shares a tip on how to root boxwood cuttings. You can find us online at southernliving.com/askgrumpy Ask Grumpy Credits: Steve Bender aka The Grumpy Gardener - Host Nellah McGough - Co-Host Krissy Tiglias - GM, Southern Living Lottie Leymarie - Executive Producer Dominique Arciero - Audio Engineer/Producer Isaac Nunn - Recording Tech Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dorothy Shephard, the PC MLA for Saint John-Lancaster, resigns from cabinet over the controversy surrounding changes to Policy 713 and other issues. We hear from the CFIA about moths in boxwood shrubs. And on the phone-in: Gardening expert, Niki Jabbour.

Today we're welcoming Kalyn from @boxwoodandspruce on Instagram - she's a furniture flipper with 48,000 followers and counting - she 's passoinate about DIY Home decor, thrifting, and flipping and has an awesome blog called Boxwood and Spruce at boxwoodandspruce.com LINKS Boxwood and Spruce on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/boxwoodandspruce/ Boxwood and Spruce Blog - www.boxwoodandspruce.com A WORD FROM OUR HOST - GARY LECLERC Hi friends! Gary here! Thanks for checking out the Flipstoration podcast. If what we're doing resonates with you, please do us a big favor by subscribing and leaving a short review/rating. That would mean the world to us! Also, feel free to send us a message or leave a comment about other topics you would love to hear on the Flipstoration Podcast. Thanks guys! ABOUT THE FLIPSTORATION PODCAST Hosted by: Gary LeClerc Sponsored by: Stripwell The Flipstoration Podcast is dedicated to the stories of those who strip, sand, finish and repeat. Whether you're into furniture flipping as a hobby, a side-income, or for restoring the purity of an antique or vintage piece - welcome to the Flipstoration nation! Be sure sure to check out our sponsor Stripwell on social media @stripwell or visit their website - https://www.stripwell.com

Are you getting or giving Roses to your Sweetheart? We'll tell you how to make them last. Ron from Bergen County sent us a text message to the Bloomers in the Garden Hot Line. He is having problems with his Boxwood. It's time to get out in the yard and start you winter pruning! Do you want to have knock out summer blooming shrubs. Learn what to do in our 3rd Segment.  One of our favorite flowering perennials is starting to bloom! We'll tell you all about Hellebores in our 4th segment. On this week's "House Plant Rant" we're talking about Rabbits foot fern! Learn all about this beautiful house plant with the furry feet in our final segment!

In this episode we talk about the future of boxwood in the garden, a visit to Bunny Mellon' Garden, and the return of the Norton Grape to Virginia with Pat Reilly.Pat educates homeowners and landscape professionals. Teaching them how to select, care and thrive the plants of their gardens.She is the horticulture outreach specialist for NewGen Boxwoods and Saunders Brothers, inc. and you'll also find her at Merrifield Garden Center in Northern Virginia.She has been an active Master Gardener volunteer with Virginia Cooperative Extension since 1995. Pat is happy to be breaking in a new garden where the bulb planter will actually work with her husband and two old rescued Golden Retrievers.She also tells stories and pours wine at a local winery.

In this episode of GardenDC: The Podcast about Mid-Atlantic Gardening, we talk with horticulturist Leslie Harris all about the new plants and products we discovered at MANTS 2023. The plant profile is on Boxwood and we share what's going on in the garden as well as some upcoming local gardening events in the What's New segment. We close out with garden designer and host of Better Lawns & Gardens Teresa Watkins, who shares the Last Word on Mulch. BTW, YOU can become a listener supporter for as little as $0.99 per month! See how at: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/support. Show Notes will be available after 1/17/2023. If you liked this episode, you may also enjoy listening to: ~ GardenDC Podcast Episode 41: New Plant Introductions with Dr. Allan Armitage https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2021/01/gardendc-podcast-episode-41-new-plant.html ~ GardenDC Podcast Episode 93: Pruning Tips https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2022/02/gardendc-podcast-episode-93-pruning-tips.html We welcome your questions and comments! You can leave a voice mail message for us at: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/message Note that we may use these messages on a future episode. And be sure to leave us a 5-star review on your favorite podcast platform plus share us on social media with #GardenDC, so other gardeners can find us too! Episode Credits: Host and Producer: Kathy Jentz Recorded on 1-13-2023. --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/gardendc/support

In this episode of The Garden Culture Podcast, Bailey Van Tassel interviews Chloe MacKintosh of Boxwood Avenue. Chloe started a blog years ago with the aim to sell pillows and share about her ranch life. She soon turned that blog into a successful business and then an interior design firm, eventually a brick-and-mortar shop, The Boxwood Mercantile. Chloe still finds time to connect with nature, plant her garden each season, and lead international retreats.  She now shares with us her search for true meaning in the merchandise space, as well as the stories that go alongside the beautiful goods and wares that she finds.  Chloe has been deeply inspired by nature since she was a little girl and shared the connection between gardening and life and business with us.  Find Chloe here: www.boxwoodavenue.com Some Links:  Western Sunset Gardening Book Savory Institute  Epic Gardening   About The Kitchen Garden Society: www.thekitchengardensociety.com Join us for a ONE-TIME offer of an annual membership (at a discount) with code MASTERCLASS

Got deer? We've got plant suggestions! Plus, we talk about the beauty of boxwood, the benefits of mulch, and amazing owls.

Today's guest Christina Dandar is the founder of The Potted Boxwood. To Christina, a potted boxwood by the front door, or anywhere in the landscape, is a fairly certain declaration that what is inside is something worth seeing. While it might be true that it is what's inside that counts, potted boxwoods have the subtle ability to let you know it's worth opening the door. As a child, Christina was always stealing copies of her mother's subscription to stylish magazines and she has had an appreciation for tasteful and timeless design since. She believes in buying what you love and making it all work together. Her hope is that her blog would be a useful tool in inspiring design, creating ideas, and showcasing the tremendous talent that exists in the world of interiors. From pretty packaging to stylish events to lush landscapes, chic design is truly everywhere. You'll love hearing the story behind Christina's popular home tours, how she grew on social media, and what's next for her in today's conversation! Be sure to share this episode with your design-loving friends! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/howdshedothat/support

This episode features a special garden visit with Connie Kleindienst and her daughter Susan Meagher, a new neighbor and friend. Susan mentioned her Mom's boxwoods are showing signs of disease. So, I offered to drop by primarily to meet her Mom and witness their mother-daughter connection in the garden.We chat about symptoms and remedies of the boxwood dilemmas, such as Boxwood Blight, caused by a fungus, and Boxwood Leaf Miner, an insect. But Connie's boxwood dilemma is likely Volutella. Fortunately, Connie's dilemma is early, and the avid gardener at eighty-nine years young will be on top of the remedy to prevent the spread of the fungus.  Then comes the best part of the visit is a delightful tour around the garden filled with treasures.   I'd love to hear about what or who gave you your gardening start. You can email me at AskMaryStone@gmail.com.  Thanks so much for tuning in :^)  Link to Related Stories:Boxwood Dilemmas & Garden Delights Boxwood Blight Coming to Town?Boxwood Leaf Miner Native Plants, especially Oaks, are Essential The History of 4-H ***Kind listeners, I'd love to hear about your garden and nature stories. And your thoughts about topics for future podcast episodes. Please email me at AskMaryStone@gmail.com. You can Follow Garden Dilemmas on Facebook and Instagram #MaryElaineStoneEpisode web page —Garden Dilemmas Podcast PageThank you for sharing the garden of life,Mary Stone, Columnist & Garden DesignerGarden Dilemmas? AskMaryStone.com 

On this week's Good Growing Podcast, we talk about some problematic plants in the landscape, wintercreeper and Japanese barberry, They have been widely planted, but in many places, they have escaped cultivation and are now causing problems in natural areas. Learn more about these troublesome plants and some alternative plants we can plant instead! Watch us on YouTube: https://youtu.be/-06EunFV3Gk 00:27 – Ready for colder weather and moving plants indoors 01:32 – Keeping cats out of potted plants 03:12 – Can plants be good or bad? 04:26 – What does invasive mean? 08:00 – “Bad plant” #1 – Wintercreeper 10:36 – Managing wintercreeper 13:18 – Wintercreeper alternatives 14:12 – Wild ginger 14:55 – Barren strawberry 15:40 – Ferns 16:14 – Sedges 16:47 – A few more groundcovers 17:42 – Vining alternatives, Virginia creeper and passionflower*c 20:07 – Mayapple (groundcover) and other spring ephemerals 22:44 – “Bad plant” #2 – Japanese barberry 26:14 – Managing barberry 28:55 – Barberry alternatives 29:07 – Hydrangeas, Little Quick Fire 29:44 – Boxwood 30:39 – Winterberry holly, Berry Poppins 32:35 – Inkberry holly 33:42 – Aronia, Low Scape mound chokeberry 35:34 – Fothergilla 36:42 – Ninebark 38:15 – Knock out rose 39:05 – Red and yellow twig dogwood 40:32 – Wrap-up, thank you, what's up next week, and good-bye! Management of Invasive Plants and Pests of Illinois: https://extension.illinois.edu/sites/default/files/management_of_invasive_plants_and_pests_of_illinois.pdf Check out the Good Growing Blog: go.illinois.edu/goodgrowing Subscribe to the weekly Good Growing email: go.illinois.edu/goodgrowingsubscribe Any products or companies mentioned during the podcast are in no way a promotion or endorsement of these products or companies. -- You can find us on most podcast platforms. SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/user-555304573 iTunes https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/good-growing/id1446630377 Stitcher https://www.stitcher.com/show/good-growing Tunein https://tunein.com/podcasts/Gardening/Good-Growing-p1187964/ Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/202u3siWExE1tTqrVgtmCR Vurbl https://vurbl.com/station/good-growing-4pljnNlUtyG/ Listen notes https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/good-growing-chris-enroth-cHLPMWpvEOG/ Ivy https://ivy.fm/podcast/good-growing-167902 Castbox https://castbox.fm/channel/Good-Growing-id4302614?country=us Google podcasts https://bit.ly/3AiYjTD

 A unique combination of education and experience brought Rachel Martin to launch Oceano Wines with husband and co-proprietor, Kurt Deutsch in 2016. A Virginia native, Martin was present at the inception of what is now considered one of that state's premier wine producers, Boxwood Estate Winery, in 2005. As Executive Vice President of Winery Operations, Martin's job was to oversee all facets of production, sales and marketing of Boxwood's award-winning whites, rosés and Bordeaux-style red blends. After earning a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts (Boston/Tufts University), Martin decided to make her love of wine a full-time vocation. She parlayed a degree in Viticulture and Enology from Napa Valley College into a spot in the prestigious Sensory Evaluation program at the University of Bordeaux School of Enology. And from there, Martin ushered in the very first wines at Boxwood, located in Middleburg, a bucolic area previously better known for horses than vines. Appreciating the distinctiveness of Middleburg's terroir, Martin spearheaded the move toward securing a coveted American Viticultural Area designation from the Alcohol and Tobacco Tax and Trade Bureau, the federal agency charged with evaluating the merits of all such applications. The petition she authored on behalf of the region was approved in 2012, making Middleburg Virginia the state's seventh AVA. Martin's forward thinking led directly to Middleburg having its own wine identity separate from the more generic Virginia designation, making her well suited to again start from scratch with Oceano Wines. None other than the esteemed author Jancis Robinson noted Martin's marketing savvy in her book “American Wine.” Martin is a member of Les Dames d'Escoffier International New York and Washington, D.C chapters and was the first woman to be inducted into the District of Columbia chapter of the International Wine & Food Society. A founding board member, she is also closely involved with the beverage/culinary aspects of the annual Middleburg Film Festival.  Hear her here.