Join Nancy J. Reid and Lisa D. Smith, the mother-daughter travel team and publishers of Big Blend Radio & TV Magazine and Parks & Travel Magazine, for Big Blend Radio’s Nature Connection Show, airing live online from the Historic Coronado Motor Hotel in Yuma, Arizona. ON THIS EPISODE: - Living Canopies - Dave Tilley - Co-founder of Living...

Owner-Researcher-Grad-Student Nick found some really “cool” properties for the Living Umbrella when he was conducting research for his MS degree. A Living Umbrella was 14 degrees cooler than a fabric umbrella—that’s the difference between 88F and 102F. We like to think that’s impressively cool. OK—enough with the cool puns!! We...

Mt. Washington Tavern Owner Rob Frisch likes the pretty touch his new Mandevilla flowers added to his existing pergola on his Sky Bar. Living Canopies is trying out its newest product the Living Pergola, which comes with an automated solar powered watering system, at the Tavern this summer.  The red...

The University of Maryland College of Agriculture and Natural Resources featured co-founder Nick Cloyd and his graduate thesis. http://agnr.umd.edu/sites/agnr.umd.edu/files/_docs/newsletters/Jan2017Web.pdf

Read a little about our beginnings. http://terp.umd.edu/growing-shade/#.WU9CAxPyuu4