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.

For Gretchen Ostherr, this is the latest job in a career spent outdoors.

Then make a quiche. Bonus points if you use the bacon fat in the pie crust.

But some work requires an expanded arsenal, feeding a perfectly natural attraction for gadgets.

Much of the nation ground to a halt because of the coronavirus. The garden carried on more beautifully than ever.

Farmer Ian Jerolmack is a dab hand at the labor-intensive baby ginger root.

When you've had your fill of them fresh off the vine, these recipes will be waiting.

Protecting your fruit from critters is the last critical step to growing tomatoes.

How to put your table scraps, leaves and grass clippings to use.

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.