Stalled jet stream holds winter at bay - Toledo Blade
It's February, supposedly one of the snowiest pages on the calendar. But this year, the jet stream is stalled five miles up in the atmosphere in a west-east pattern. The frosty Yukon air that usually pours over the Midwest is, for the most part, staying up north. Down on the ground in Ohio and southeast Michigan, tiny crocuses are sprinkling Easter-basket colors across brown back yards. It might as well be spring despite the 0.02 of an inch of precipitation yesterday. AccuWeather, Inc., a private forecasting service based in State College, Pa., said this February has consisted so far of 21 days of relatively warm weather, with an average daily temperature in Toledo of 35.5 degrees. It's the seventh-warmest February since 1880, when official weather records started being kept. February is
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The Beekeeper Inn - Oak Harbor, OH | Groupon
Peggy Dennis and Mark Kohn transformed the historic Oak Harbor Hotel, while retaining the well-known façade's historic charm. But inside the duo refurbished the guts by restoring the century-old hardwood floors and hanging glittering chandeliers. They remodeled the dining room to house their restaurant – which serves a variety of locally grown produce and locally raised meats. They also renamed the venue to The Beekeeper Inn, a nod to their own passion for apiculture. Together they run the banquet hall and restaurant, taking breaks in their day to tend the family farm, harvest honey, or net a new swarm of bees. Mark even uses the Inn's upstairs space as a Krav Maga practice studio to teach self defense classes.
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Bench's Greenhouse & Nursery - Elmore, OH | Groupon
In 1978, a modest 32’x144’ poly greenhouse began supplying a farm with tomatoes and pepper plants. More than 30 years later, the greenhouse has exploded into a 3-acre operation that supports a leafy abundance of 15,000 flowering hanging baskets, more than 100,000 potted annuals, and 25,000 potted perennials. Helmed by Don and Janice Bench and their son and daughter-in-law, the greenhouse and nursery pairs visitors with more than 200 varieties of hybrid roses, which only require 1 gallon of gas to bloom on the highway, as well as trees, shrubs, statues, and fountains.
In November and December, the garden center morphs into a winter wonderland that showcases more than 100 decorated trees and a seasonal trove of ornaments, fragrant wreaths, poinsettias, and crimson bows. During summer months, the Benches man a roadside produce stand, where they sell sweet corn, melons, beans, and squash from their 650-acre farm.
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Greenhouses likely to up prices - Toledo Blade
With natural gas prices for Bench's Greenhouse roughly three times higher this winter than just four years ago, the rural Elmore business delayed planting annuals and other traditional summer offerings for a couple of weeks to conserve energy. Gardeners shouldn't notice a difference in the flowers in the next few weeks, but prices will be 5 percent higher on some items that didn't get increases last year, said owner Donald Bench, Sr. "We didn't open some greenhouses until we had to open them," he said. "We're trying to save as much as we can." Prices for annuals, perennials, and vegetable plants are expected to be higher this year to help growers compensate for increased operating costs, including for items such as petroleum-based plastic containers, local growers said. Some said
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Bench's Greenhouse in Elmore, OH | 18063 W State Route 105, Elmore, OH
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