Amber Waves Farm will host a community dig at which guests have been invited to dig and harvest dahlia tubers from its farm fields on Saturday at 11:30 a.m.
Originally planted five years ago, the tubers have multiplied and propagated to number more than 15,000, providing years of flowers to thousands of Amber Waves guests.
Farming apprentice graduates have also received tubers to plant in their own farms across the country. The cost is $10.
On the South Fork, where the effects of climate change are seen in woodlands decimated by the southern pine beetle, Rivers Burke hopes to plant as many redwood and sequoia trees, both of which are highly fire resistant, as he possibly can, in the process inspiring others to take up the cause.
“This has been the best experience I’ve ever had. I’ve been telling people, ‘I feel more welcome now than when I actually came home,’ ” said Sabrina Mohammed, a veteran who took part in Soldier Ride the Hamptons on July 18.
From a 1985 Unimog platform fire truck imported from Germany to black open-toe platform booties, you can find a bit of everything vintage at Georgopoulos Motors on Main Street in Amagansett, where the brother-and-sister team of Stathios and Tiffany Georgopoulos are in business together this summer. He sells the cars, she sells the clothes.
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