The ring-shaped kitchen tool has many more uses than the gadgets advertised these days.

This spring, birds moved into a Portland neighborhood in a big way.

This versatile scape condiment can be drizzled on crostini, turned into salad dressing or used to sauce pasta.

Just don't put these outfits in the laundry.

The lobster industry has been hit hard this year. Here's a recipe to help you do your bit to help them.

Borrow a technique from farmers called succession planting.

Social-distancing rules are in place, but that doesn't affect the beauty of Maine Coastal Botanical and other gardens.

No more giving over the dinner table to pandemic projects. It's been rededicated to dinner.

Use it anywhere you might use spinach -- and don't toss out the stalks.

Then, when you crave asparagus, raspberries, rhubarb, apples..., you just walk out to your back yard and harvest dinner or a snack.

Even though we can’t be together in person, we can still celebrate each of these amazing winners and say: Thank you.

Replace it with a flower garden, and as a bonus, you won't have to mow so much.

Or is spreading that fear the work of the plastics industry and climate change skeptics?

Experts urge customers not to abandon local producers in favor of cheap, supermarket food once the shutdown ends.

Planting vegetables lets you eat locally all summer long. But don't forget the power, and beauty, of flowers.

Atlantic Sea Farms partners with fishermen up and down the Maine coast to produce kelp products sold through stores and restaurant chains.

Radical and self-reliant, subsistence farmer Will Bonsall has preserved tens of thousands of seeds as a way to preserve crop diversity.

Amara Ifeji is a nationally award-winning water quality scientist from Bangor—who just graduated high school.

A dairy farmer, a future flower farmer and an elementary school teacher who is engaging students in growing vegetables each received $1,500 to help them reach their (organic) goals.

Frith Farm walks the walk. The little farm in Scarborough produces organic food for its neighbors and green energy for its operations, fostering biodiversity and community.

The nonprofit Bicycle Coalition of Maine works to make the state's roads safer for cyclists and pedestrians. In the pandemic, its work has become more pertinent than ever.

A former wig designer for TV and Broadway, Linda Rice has been a fierce volunteer guardian of North Pond and other Maine lakes for more than two decades.

Marine Biologist Marissa McMahan takes a three-pronged approach: stop green crabs, improve the lives of fishing communities and teach children science.

Most of the events are canceled completely, but some have moved ordering online.

Brighten up root vegetables to stretch soup into another season.

A new bee "mom" worries about, and delights in, her new responsibilities.

Many Mainers have turned to the garden to wait out COVID-19. Here are some practical tips for growing food, even if you're short of sunlight or space.

Plus a gnocchi recipe that will transport you to Italy.