It doesn’t take much to get Fritz Appleby, a retired Maine State Park manager, to wax rhapsodic about his love…
Photo by Gabor Degre Starting a community garden can be a terrific way to grow vegetables and help people in…
A garden journal, or garden record book, is a place to log the seeds you use, where and when you…
Folks swear by elderberry benefits, which are said to include reduction of nasal congestion and swelling and the warding off…
Donkeys can be stubborn, but they are also intelligent, attentive animals that are good draft animals, guardians for other animals…
Garlic needs a period of cold in order for a clove to separate and form a head of garlic. Here's…
Watch out: Something stinky this way comes. Brown marmorated stink bugs, the voracious eater of fruit, vegetable and nut crops,…
Late fall is the season to scatter native seed bombs and bury bulbs. Scotch bellflower in the gardens of Heather…
Are backyard chickens OK in the cold? Learn about the birds' natural protections, and what's safe to help keep them…
Roberta Bailey of Seven Tree Farm in Vassalboro with white oilseed poppy seeds. She is saving seeds to grow plants…
Native bees could use a little help from humans to keep them healthy. Necessary in the ecosystem for pollination, Frank…
Bean hole beans are a Maine tradition. Bean hole beans are the traditional food of Maine’s lumber camps and are…