A stroll through Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens provides an education about plants that repel destructive insects.
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Paul Naron aims to grow the best indoor farmers market in the world
Belfast already had one farmers market when Paul Naron relocated here, but he’s taking his to a new level.
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Make soup stock from whatever’s at hand – fish heads, ham hocks, chicken feet
As soup season nears, our columnist walks us through making stocks from all the bits and pieces you’d otherwise toss out.
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EPA’s Scott Pruitt’s push to roll back vehicle emission standards is a disaster
Lowering the standards harms air quality, destabilizes the climate and is bad for Mainers.
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New York chastises EPA chief over river’s Superfund cleanup
At the rate the cleanup’s going, it will be 55 years or more before the fish are clean enough to eat once a week.
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Alan Hutchinson, ‘champion’ of land conservation in Maine, dies at age 70
He played a key role in protecting 1 million acres for people who hike, hunt, fish, paddle or work in the state’s vast forestlands.
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Interactive map: With dry weather, drought comes creeping back into Maine
A drier-than-usual summer has brought drought conditions back to parts of Maine, but the problem remains mild compared to the drought of 2016.
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Want to add color to your fall garden? Think chrysanthemums.
People usually plant them in September.
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Farmer Ben Whatley turns his parent’s land into an evolving farm
But gambling on melons didn’t pay off this year.
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After decades of blight, Mainers could help save the American chestnut tree
American chestnuts were almost wiped out. Now, a UNE professor turns to science to make them stronger.