©2011 Porsche Cars North America. Porsche recommends seat belt usage and observance of all traffic laws at all times.
Experience the status quo being
bucked at its fastest.
We offer sales, service and leasing with daily pick up
and delivery in Wilmington.
Experience the new Boxster.
Porsche of Fayetteville
(910) 487-0000 • 800-264-3203
3211 Bragg Blvd. Fayetteville, NC 28303
www.porscheoffayetteville.com
1816 Mews Drive | Wilmington, NC
910.256.6111
www.landfallrealty.com
Selling from Landfall. For Landfall. Exclusively Landfall.
1903 Prestwick Lane
$449,000
1700 Verrazzano Place
$629,000
1229 S. Moorings Drive
$624,000
1204 Forest Island Place
$939,000
32
WBM may 2011
shrubs for months.
The second, absolute thing that
Taylor suggests is cutting back on
lawns. “We’ve become obsessed with
grass in this country,” he says. And
only the greenest will do, made possible
by gallons of pesticides, herbicides
and fertilizers, all of which end up in
the watershed and create havoc in the
riparian and for marine life. Although
there are ways to achieve more sustainable
lawns — seeding native grasses,
fertilizing with organic time-released
fertilizer, and weeding by hand —
when it comes to grass, less is always
more sustainable.
Christin Deener
Federal Point Farms
Carolina Beach resident
Christin Deener thinks about
sustainability before she
thinks of anything else. And her partner,
David Higgins, is no different.
Deener and Higgins set up their
Farmers’ Market booth every Saturday
on Water Street beside the Cape Fear
River in downtown Wilmington with
tables made from old tongue-and-groove
doors originally found in their idyllic,
last-of-its-kind, Carolina Beach cottage.
Their wares are unloaded from repurposed
plastic buckets that once housed
But-R-Creme icing at Sam’s Club.
Their truck, farm tractor and
Deener’s personal car are all fueled by
biodiesel that Higgins makes himself,
using leftover oil from a local restaurant.
The tractor, used for cultivating,
is a 1952 Chalmers “G,” found and
restored by Higgins. All plastic pots
and flats used to start plants were salvaged
by Deener from a defunct nursery.
And the primary water source on
the three-acre farm is an old fire hose
that stretches across the acreage, ready
to put out July’s garden infernos.
Their cottage, built in 1939, has
been well-preserved and is filled with
reclaimed materials — a commercial
kitchen sink salvaged from the old
A&P, butcher-block counters once
used in a Wilmington electronics