Urban Discoveries Baltimore

The weather is warming and it makes us want to stick our hands in some dirt. The only problem is, we couldn’t even manage to keep our window sill herb garden alive last year. Lucky for us, though, this Thursday (March 12) at 6:30 p.m., local green space–advocates Community Greens host a workshop on transforming blighted urban land into beautiful, usable space. Community gardens here we come! The workshop costs $4 (or nothing, if you’re a Community Greens member); look for them at the St. Francis Neighborhood Center in Reservoir Hill (2405 Linden Avenue).

But maybe it’s another kind of green you’re thinking of. While most of the city’s St. Patrick’s Day celebrations are scheduled for next week, you can get a jump on your Irish pride at the Eighth Annual Irish Stroll this Saturday (March 7). For $10 (or $7 with two canned food donations) you can mosey between 11 participating bars from 1 – 9 p.m., enjoying drink and food specials along the way.

If you prefer a less alcohol-sodden celebration, make your way to the Enoch Pratt Free Library’s central branch in Mount Vernon (400 Cathedral Street) on Saturday at noon for a W.B. Yeats poetry discussion led by local poet Erik Kestler.

Gardens and shamrocks are normal. The 2009 FortFest, a national conference that bills itself as “a weekend of anomalous phenomena!” is decidedly not. Topics of discussion include UFO invisibility, freemasonry, the Atlantis of the Occultists, “the seven vowels,” and other sensible things like that. The ever-innovative American Visionary Arts Museum (800 Key Highway) hosts Saturday’s events, and on Sunday the conference moves to the Days Inn Inner Harbor (100 Hopkins Place).

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