PEORIA MAGAZINE June 2023

Cover Stories 34 Dancing the Samba

SPOTLIGHTS 22 Underground Equilibrium By Mark Welp 26 Wines Fit to Swig By Lisa Coon 30 Ta-da! It’s TADA! By Mike Bailey 46 From Farm Boy to Famous Landscape Architect By Linda Smith Brown

50 ‘We Could Blanket Peoria in Mulch’ By Michael Miller 92 Banking on Progress By Phil Luciano 94 Galloping Through

On Central Illinois Soil By Lisa Coon

36 A Heaping Slice of

Hosta Heaven (and More) By Terry Bibo

38 Drip and Drizzl By Katie Faley

the Heart of Peoria By Sarah Rashid

COVER ILLUSTRATION : “Land of Plenty” by Missy Shepler

ABOVE PHOTO: B y Ron Johnson

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