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JULY 2021 PUBLISHER

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Happy Summertime, Venice! WE HOPE YOU ARE STAYING COOL AND ENJOYING THESE LONGEST, BRIGHTEST DAYS OF THE YEAR! Of course we at Venice Lifestyle remember those bygone days when summer meant quiet streets and not all that much to do. But our beautiful region here in Southwest Florida has continued to boom, and summer in Venice is no longer the sleepy thing it once was. In fact, there are just as many things to do and places to go as during season! This summer, consider chartering a private cruise with SailFuture, a nonprofit started

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eight years ago right here in Sarasota County. Founder Michael Long, a local boy and New College graduate, began with a couple of dinghies on Sarasota Bay, teaching underprivileged kids how to sail. Now he has 40 employees, serves 200 children per year, has a fleet of sailboats, and is opening a SailFuture high school. Read all about SailFuture’s endeavors in this month’s feature. In our Good Times section, take a look at photos from United Way South Sarasota County’s Women United launch event at the Venetian Hotel. Venice Lifestyle is proud to be a member of the Women United fundraising campaign to help locals in need. In Around Town, we highlight donations made to local organizations by Burlington Stores and the Plantation Community Foundation. Crystal Cream in Osprey offers handmade,

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FEATURES 14 Bountiful Florida How To Grow Organic Tomatoes Right In Your Own Backyard

20 A Passion For Painting Venice 'En Plein Air' Venice Plein Air Artists' Group Hosts Outdoor 'Meet And Paints' And Has Been Recording The Growth Of The Urban Forest

24 Defying The Odds SailFuture, An Educational Nonprofit Started Right Here In Sarasota County, Has Grown Exponentially Over The Past Ten Years

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SARASOTA COUNTY'S POPULAR KIDS' SUMMER BEACH RUNS RETURN The popular Kids’ Summer Beach Runs continue all through July. They are presented by Sarasota County Parks, Recreation and Natural Resources, Sarasota Crew, and New Balance of Sarasota. Kids’ Summer Beach Runs are Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Registration opens at 5:30 PM and races kick off at 6:30 PM. + Tuesdays through July 27, Siesta Beach. Meet near the playground. + Wednesdays through July 28, Brohard Park. Meet near the Venice Fishing Pier. Registration is required on-site. All fun-run participants will receive a ribbon for finishing

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Emily with a single day's harvest of cherry tomatoes.

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HOW TO GROW ORGANIC TOMATOES RIGHT IN YOUR OWN BACKYARD ARTICLE TONY D'SOUZA | PHOTOGRAPHY STEPHANIE SNOW PHOTOGRAPHY

Emily's cherry and heirloom brandywine tomatoes. Her signature dish: baked cherry tomatoes stuffed with grassfed beef, fresh mozzarella and homegrown herbs.

EMILY D’SOUZA CAME TO FLORIDA FROM NORTHERN CALIFORNIA FIVE YEARS AGO, WHERE SHE WAS A COMPETITIVE SNOWBOARDER AND PROFESSIONAL GARDENER. Giving up Northern California’s ‘normal’ growing seasons, Emily had to learn Florida’s wildly different growing cycles, planting her spring raised-bed garden in January instead of in May as she did back home. Determined to grow organically, Emily has to fight off at least five different types of veggie-loving caterpillars, as well as squirrels, cardinals, raccoons, rabbits, and the occasional mouse, all of which love to steal her prize tomatoes. But it’s all worth it. Emily’s tomatoes have more flavor by far than any kind of tomato that can be bought at the store. This year’s harvest was a bounty and her family enjoyed two months of fresh tomato dishes like Caprese salads, stuffed cherry tomatoes, garden fresh jalapeno and herb tomato salsas, slow cooked pasta sauces, and savory grilled cheese and tomato sandwiches, just to name a few.

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M ATER I A LS + High Quality Organic Soil + High Quality Organic Fertilizer + Use Proven Seeds + Plant In Full Sun + Bamboo Stakes + Tomato Cages + Sharp Pruning Shears + Keep A Log Every Season

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Build a raised bed planter and

TIP

Prepare for pests. Nothing

TIP

Water and fertilize in the morn-

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works better than inspecting

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your garden daily and removing

plant’s base and keep the leaves

Florida’s sandy soil. Amend the

caterpillars by hand. Harvest

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soil before planting with organic

your tomatoes as soon as they

and disease. Trim off all leaves

fertilizer. Emily’s planters are 16”

begin to ripen or risk losing them

near the soil. Prune your plants

deep, 8’ long x 2’ wide. Place

to bigger critters. Try playing

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them in full sun if possible.

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Emily and her son Cedar, ten months old in this photo. Cedar enjoys fresh veggies from the garden.

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VENICE PLEIN AIR ARTISTS' GROUP HOSTS OUTDOOR 'MEET AND PAINTS' AND HAS BEEN RECORDING THE GROWTH OF THE URBAN FOREST FOUNDED BY ARTIST KAREN ANN HITT IN 2003, VENICE PLEIN AIR IS DEDICATED TO THE SHARED JOY OF PAINTING OUT OF DOORS, OR AS THE FRENCH SAY, ‘EN PLEIN AIR’. The tradition enjoys a rich history and was practiced by legendary artists like Vincent Van Gogh and Paul Gauguin, who enjoyed working outdoors together. Meeting from November through April, Venice Plein Air offers free ‘Meet And Paint’ (MAP) events at 8:30 AM the first Monday of each month at Caspersen Beach, and the third Saturday of each month starting at the Centennial Park Gazebo in Historic Downtown Venice. On the third Saturday of January, the group MAPs at Venice’s Urban Forest and 20

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'Whipped'

has been documenting the growth of the forest in painting over the past three years. Special guest painters host and critiques are offered on request. “It’s a great group and everyone is welcome to come and paint with us,” says Karen, an award-winning artist whose work is represented by the Hughes Gallery in Boca Grande. “Venice offers such a wonderful variety of subjects, from the water, to the historic buildings, to the wildlife and woods. There are many accomplished artists who live here and we enjoy a welcoming, creative, supportive community. Everyone from the very experienced painter to the person picking up a brush for the first time is invited. We really have great camaraderie.” Venicepleinair.com. Venicepleinair@gmail.com. Artist Karen Ann Hitt: Anoriginalhitt.com. Hughes Gallery: Hughesgallery.net

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SAILFUTURE, AN EDUCATIONAL NONPROFIT STARTED RIGHT HERE IN SARASOTA COUNTY, HAS GROWN EXPONENTIALLY OVER THE PAST TEN YEARS

RAISED BY A SINGLE MOTHER IN SARASOTA, MICHAEL LONG KNEW WHAT IT WAS LIKE TO GO WITHOUT. For a time in his youth, his struggle led him to become disengaged in school and land in trouble. A stint in the Florida Department of Juvenile Justice woke him up to the fact that he had to become accountable to himself. He refocused, did well at Venice’s Gulf Coast Marine Institute and Riverview High School, and earned a spot at the famously exclusive New College of Florida. New College also gave him an opportunity to show off his problem-solving skills. “I didn’t know the tuition didn’t include housing until they sent a bill for $10,000,” he says. “I told the financial officer that I had no way to pay that and he made a joke that someone once lived on a sailboat anchored off the waterfront campus in Sarasota Bay for free. I took him seriously and found a guy on Craigslist who was willing swap my Jeep Cherokee with 200,000 miles on it for

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his beat-up 30-foot Santana sailboat. A friend and I managed to get the boat up from Marco Island even though neither of us knew how to sail, and I lived on it for four years while I went to college.” A love for sailing was born in Michael that has since taken him around the world. And since 2013 when he founded his nonprofit SailFuture while still an undergraduate, Michael has been sharing his experience of focus and hope with disengaged young people. “When I started SailFuture, I wanted to find a way to bridge the gap between New College students and lower income kids who were growing up the way I had,” he explains. “We put New College students and underprivileged Booker High School students out on two-person Collegiate 420 sailboats—which are dinghies—and if you both lean to one side, they flip over. So you have to work together. It was an awesome way for these two very different people to laugh, play, bump their heads, skin their knees, and come out of the experience with a relationship that has implied trust. We have taken that concept and applied that to everything we do at SailFuture.” From dinghies on Sarasota Bay less than a decade ago, Michael has grown SailFuture far beyond anything he could have dreamed. The nonprofit now employs 40 full-time staff in five different programs. It includes a project-based, experiential high school located in a renovated1926 Pinellas County school building and set to open next month, two residential foster care homes, and a $2 million fleet of vessels for the program’s sailing expeditions. The fleet includes a 105-foot yacht with staterooms that can be chartered by the public and the 65-foot racing sloop “Defy The Odds,” which was donated to

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SailFuture on the condition that Michael and a team

program is that there is no diversity in the sailing

of kids in the program sail it back across the Atlantic

and yachting industry. There’s no entry pipeline

from Turkey where it was docked. SailFuture serves

because to work on a boat you have to have

more than 200 children per year, and sails in the Gulf

experience, but most people from marginalized

of Mexico, the Caribbean, and the Eastern Seaboard.

communities and communities of color never

“What I am most excited about now with SailFuture

get the opportunity. We operate training pro-

is our new high school,” Michael says. “We want to

grams that provide paid-apprenticeships to our

reach disengaged learners like I was. Our school isn’t

kids to learn how to maintain and operate yachts

for ‘troubled’ kids. It’s for any child who is disengaged

for future careers.”

in their public school education. As a learner, if I didn’t

SailFuture boasts an over 80% high school

see any practical use for the knowledge a teacher was

graduation rate, which is very high in the sector.

requiring me to learn, I had no intrinsic motivation to

SailFuture also offers private charters, is actively

learn it. Our philosophy is that we are going to teach

recruiting board members, and is always in need of

students to solve real world problems and give them

donations and gifts of vessels.

practical, hands on ways to learn.” There is also a practical end to the education that SailFuture provides.

“Helping these kids gives me a sense of purpose and meaning,” Michael says. “Giving back to them is the most important part of it all.”

“Another of SailFuture’s programs is a yacht-training program,” Michael explains. “The premise of the

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THE SIXTH ANNUAL SEAFOOD & MUSIC FESTIVAL IN MAY FEATURED LEGENDARY LOCAL BAND KETTLE OF FISH, LED BY SINGER/SONGWRITER DANA LAWRENCE, AND FEATURING GREG POULOS ON GUITAR, CHRIS GUERTIN ON BASS, AND PAT MCDONALD OF THE CHARLIE DANIELS BAND ON DRUMS. This was one of Kettle Of Fish’s last performances as the band is ending its long run this month as members pursue other projects. Venice Lifestyle says ‘Encore! Encore!’ to these great musicians. Seafoodfestivals.com. Kettleoffish.net. 34

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