Take a page from the French approach to potage.

With it, you can make your own brown, caster, confectioners' and other sugars, and eliminate unnecessary packaging.

House plant SOS! When employees were sent home to work in March, in some cases their office plants felt the neglect.

Flowers aren't the only part of your garden that can look pretty inside your house.

They can take on the flavors of the world and make for a meal, side or sandwich filling.

Thanks to watering with a garden hose, both the flowers and vegetables flourished.

Try these two neat Sunday prep tricks and the possibilities multiply.

And it takes just a few minutes' work to make it yourself.

Feed and shelter wild animals? Or clean up the mess in the perennial garden? Each approach has advantages and disadvantages.

Lessons learned: heed bee warnings or get stung, and drought is tough on bees.

The time to enjoy them is next spring.

They have many uses in the garden, among them helping you reduce the size of your environmentally destructive lawn.

And you can grow the plant yourself for a ready supply of fresh leaves.

Plus, a recipe for crackers that are not Cheez-Its, but are just as addictive.

Some annuals in your garden have monetary or sentimental value. Here's how to keep them for another year.

Keep your squeamishness in check and add silky-textured chicken feet broth to your repertoire. If you eat the meat, you can eat the feet.

Avoid plastic, fertilize in the appropriate season, and just say no to phosphorus.

But all methods of defining it and adhering to it do good for the planet.

Several native black cherry trees grew up, unseen, under our columnist's very eyes. The tree provides many benefits to Maine birds, butterflies and mammals.

Add to that, it's a good, sustainable choice.

A: When you are talking to a nursery about the size of a tree or shrub.

Two local schools teach students about the intersection of ecology, food and social principles. The concept is called agroecology.

Use our quick crib sheet to help you preserve them through the fall and winter.

In which columnist Christine Burns Rudalevige stares down her fear, gives lacto-fermentation another go, and lives to tell the tale.

Curb appeal, schmerb appeal. Unless you're selling your house, the view from inside the house will reward you far more richly.

A farm in Scarborough has just begun to sell ground sumac from local trees, a spice much used in cookery of the Levant.

These shrubs are showy, but also can be finicky. Choose wisely.

Banana Cream Pie keeps your kitchen, and you, cool.

It might be boring, but so will next spring if you're housebound with nothing to do.

Try our simple formula for stir-fried rice.