Bring on the party hats, bake a cake and buy a LOT of candles – Shades Cahaba Elementary School in Homewood turns 100 years old on September 19th.
Continue reading “Happy 100th Birthday Shades Cahaba Elementary School! Here is why this special place in Homewood matters.”
Do you eat yogurt? Use kitty litter in those big plastic jugs? Or how about plastic drinking straws or ketchup bottles? Doesn’t it drive you crazy and a little mad to throw away this stuff?
Continue reading “Need a place to recycle #5 plastics? We found a solution in Homewood called Find Your Fives”16th Annual Salamander Festival
Link for Festival Poster
Saturday, January 25, 2020
Shades Valley Community Church
160 Oxmoor Rd, Homewood, AL 35209 (across Oxmoor from Patriot Park
Click for festival location Map
See Real Salamanders! Also displays with birds, fish, frogs, turtles and crayfish.
Free arts and crafts for kids to make – Clay salamanders, fish prints, origami, and more.
Face painting, fossils, microscopes, insects, recycling information, art by Homewood Students
Southern trees’ display and carnivorous plants, new educational interactive displays, and much more.
2:00 – Family nature hike (outdoors)
3:00 – Festival begins (indoors) with salamanders and activities
Music with Rob Angus and “Over The Hillbillies” band
Each Party on the Porch at our Homewood store focuses on giving back to our local community and raising environmental awareness for conservation, access, usage, and education. The event runs the first Friday of each month from April to October, from 6:00 – 8:30 PM except on our July Party on the Porch (July 12th) so everyone can enjoy July 4th.)
Party on the Porch brings together local musicians, breweries, food trucks, and artisans for a day of fun under the sun. This is a family-friendly event, with kids, dogs, corn hole, and loads of comradery. Attendance is free, but we ask that of-age attendees donate $10 for a refillable souvenir cup to enjoy great beer donated from a local brewery.
Net proceeds from your donations at our October event go to Homewood City Schools Foundation.
Who’s attending?
Our friends:
The North Face
Birmingham Mountain Radio
High Point Climbing
Birmingham Boulders
Music:
Tonal Vision ft. Jenni
Beer:
Trimtab
Food:
Eugene’s Hot Chicken
Edgewood Creamery
Attention bagel lovers! Homewood Bagel Company is opening their first brick and mortar shop on Central Avenue in Homewood this year and we’re soooo excited! Read on for all the delicious details.
Continue reading “Homewood Bagel Company is opening a new shop at Christmas. We can’t wait!”
Unearthed trolley tracks and brick down the center of Broadway street in the city of Homewood will be preserved, according to Homewood City Councilor Barry Smith.
Continue reading “Unearthed Homewood trolley tracks and bricks from the 1920s to be preserved”
The much anticipated opening of Hero Donuts in Homewood is happening today.
Continue reading “Hero Donuts – from pop-up shop to storefront”
An old house is being renovated in Homewood. You might know the one – on the corner of Linden Avenue and Reese Street. In that house will be Caveat, a new concept restaurant. Learn more about the latest brainchild of Real & Rosemary’s owners, Jennifer Mims and Nate Crawly.
http://thesweethome.com/
Continue reading “Caveat, unique coffee, wine concept coming to Homewood”
If you are a runner or cyclist, there is one overpass in the Magic City where you literally fear for your life.
Continue reading “Connecting communities: Highway 280 Homewood-Mountain Brook bridge”
Birmingham’s oldest independent bookstore, Little Professor Book Center, re-opened this weekend in the heart of Homewood’s 18th Street Central Business District after departing its previous location for nearly three weeks.
Continue reading “Homewood’s Little Professor Book Center is back!”
One of Birmingham’s most iconic bookstores – the Little Professor Book Center – will be closing its doors this week on Wednesday, February 15th.
But, here is the good news….
For twenty years, the Freshwater Land Trust has become one of the most respected and successful land trust organizations in the South. Throughout the years, they have saved and protected special places in the Magic City; including restored industrial sites transformed into green spaces to endangered darters found no where on earth but in our local springs and streams. This year, the land trust is providing the public with an unique opportunity to see firsthand these special places they have saved through their 2017 Sunday Hike Series.
Start 2017 off right this week
For 2017, start your tour of Freshwater Land Trust hosted hikes this Sunday, January 29th, 2:00 at the High Ore Line Trail.
Continue reading “Take a special Sunday hike with the Freshwater Land Trust”
Two years of wishing, praying and hoping in Homewood starts up again this holiday season. Looking towards 2017, Homewood natives are sharing their thoughts and hanging them on the annual Wishing Tree.
Continue reading “Share a Hope, Wish, or Prayer at the Annual Homewood Wishing Tree”
Have you put up your unadorned pole, held your Festivus dinner, performed the “Airing of Grievances” and “Feats of Strength,” and labeled the easily explainable events as “Festivus miracles” today?
Continue reading “Spotted in Homewood’s Edgewood Neighborhood…. a Festivus pole”
One of Birmingham’s special holiday traditions is “Singing Santa.”
This year, Singing Santa is back at Brookwood Village, joyfully belting out Christmas carols and listening carefully to children, so he can make his list and journey later this week.
Continue reading “A Birmingham tradition: Don’t miss “Singing Santa” at Brookwood Village”
