Bryn Mooth

There are more than 7,500 known apple cultivars, and on a gentle slope facing her Indian Hill home, Marsha Lindner grows about 40 of them.

Ethan Snider dishes on the value of freshness and friendly farmers.

This Findlay Market vendor keeps 2 million bees.

Catch a laid back vibe at Farm Beach Bethel.

One man's commitment to keeping one of the last Hyde Park indie groceries open.

A comfortable bookstore café gives itself a welcome revision

In this almost-missable College Hill storefront, owner Rasheedah A. Majid and her two sons prepare Southern and Caribbean comfort food with Halal meats: the bacon is turkey, the ribs (a special on Friday and Saturday) are beef, and no alcohol is available.

On a perfectly bright late-spring morning, Vicky Tewes walks through the dew-damp grass, absently adjusting the netting that covers three long rows of blueberry bushes. The berries are just beginning to blush, and the nylon cage protects them from greedy birds.

West-siders: If this place isn’t in your regular grocery shopping rotation, it should be. East-siders: Plug in the GPS and gas up the car.

Great Scott opened in August 2012 in a quirky Tudor roadhouse on Madison Road, the former site of Nick’s Chops & Chasers. The building had been vacant for five years but Krauser and Scott Elsaesser (who own another Great Scott in Withamsville and a diner in Amelia) liked the proximity to Crossroads church and the emerging Oakley Station development.