Steve Kay for Lexington

Green Acres in the City - What is the world coming to?

Chickens, bees, pygmy goats, ducks, and rabbits – several cities in the U.S. are grappling with how to regulate “farm” animals in the city.  For years most city ordinances addressed dogs and cats but prohibited certain farm animals or ignored them altogether.  For instance, Lexington allows any ani…

Fascinating View on How Food Fits in Our Lives

In this podcast,  Krista Tippett interviews down-to-earth celebrity chef Dan Barber in an episode of her American Public Media radio program, On Being.  Barber shares his views on food, flavor, family, economy.  It runs almost an hour, and is well worth listening to from beginning to end.  Thanks t…

Food Trucks for Lexington?

Food trucks are certainly taking the nation by storm!  The Food Network has the “Great Food Truck Race,” San Antonio has a food truck park, Nashville has a food truck court, and Austin has an “app” to find them.  They all have social media.  Apparently the “best of the best” is Portland, OR which C…

Youth Speak Out for Change

Last week I attended “Youth Speak Out for Change” sponsored by the Mayor’s Youth Council and Partners for Youth.  It was great to be with these exciting and inspiring young people who care about our community, think about it creatively, and are working to make it better.This session featured four h…

Zero Food Miles, Yum

A couple of weeks ago I went to Windy Corner and Berries on Bryan Station to talk about local food and its importance to our individual health and the health of our local economy. You can watch the video on GTV3.I chose these two businesses to highlight because they are almost next to each other an…

Pat McNeese Video Redux

Apologies to all who read the earlier post, tried to look at the video, and found that the link did not work. It took a while, but we now have a link that works.  You can watch the video here.

Adaptive Reuse Symposium Challenges Conventional Thinking

On March 31 – April 1, the UK College of Design presented a Historic Preservation Symposium entitled “Adaptive Reuse: Preservation Through Innovation” at the Carnegie Center.  The speaker’s presentations were followed by a local panel discussion.  The speakers were were Roberta Brandes Gratz, Holly…

Which Way for Two-way Streets?

Recently I was in an LFUCG meeting about options for changing some of downtown Lexington’s one-way streets back into two-way streets. The last comprehensive report about the potential impact of these changes was done in 2007 in conjunction with the Downtown Master Plan.  Usually referred to as the …