Beans: They come in many types: thin, flat and those grown for dried beans. Whichever type you chose, they are easy to grow and produce a lot. Cherry tomatoes: These are easier to grow than full-sized tomatoes. If you’re like us, you eat as many in the garden as ever make it into the house. Leaf […]
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Five fun things your kids can do in the garden right now
Garden plan and journal: Daydream and draw your 2021 garden. Give your child some seed catalogues, a notebook and glue stick and have your child make a 2021 Garden Plan Journal. Plant outside: Peas and radishes are a great pair to plant with kids. Pea seeds are big, making them easy for little hands to […]
Heather McCargo: Launching a counterattack against invasive species
The Wild Seed Project founder is dedicated to returning native species and biodiversity to Maine’s landscape.
Letter from the Source editor
The pandemic has commanded our attention so much over the past year that it has been hard to have any energy left over (renewable or otherwise) to worry about the grave environmental problems we face, let alone to try to fix them. That’s the story for me, anyway, but as we paged through the nearly […]
Partners for World Health: A second life for unused medical supplies
The Portland nonprofit collects supplies discarded by hospitals and ships them worldwide to others that desperately need them – and reduces medical waste that would otherwise end up in the trash.
Raised beds or in-ground gardening? Which is right for you?
If you have good soil, garden in the ground. It’s easier because you don’t have to build beds and add soil to them. But if you have ledge, rocky soil, lead in your soil or perhaps you have trouble bending down to reach the garden, use a raised bed. In sum, in the soil is […]
Andy Burt: A lifelong advocate, and she’s not done yet
Grassroots work on a new environmental rights bill and making films about climate justice are the latest – but not last – efforts in the Edgecomb woman’s lifetime of advocacy.
Vegetable gardening season is here: Ready, set, go
Are you a new gardener? Follow this timeline and our tips to get started this season.
2021 Lee Auto Malls Community Farm Champion
Liberation Farms is a co-operative farm managed by the Somali Bantu Community Association in Lewiston. After years in operation, they have finally found a permanent home in Wales.