Families are seeking walkable neighborhoods when they scout out where to live.
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Do bees a flavor by planting for them
Next spring, bolster the bees around your neighborhood by offering them a friendly perch – a pollinator garden.
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Paying with credit cards can be a bad, unsustainable habit
Using cash encourages good habits of all sorts.
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Eero Ruuttila’s years of growing lead to seed company gig
Influences on the new research station manager at Johnny’s Selected Seeds have included the poet Allen Ginsberg.
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Dig in, or maybe employ goats, to stop garden invaders without chemicals
Cut back, remove roots, employ weed wrenches, try goats.
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Food that has lost its looks doesn’t have to go to waste
Millions of pounds of pitted produce and outdated cakes still fill the plates of hungry Mainers, feed livestock or become compost. If anyone tells you different, that’s garbage.
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Bottles vs. cans: Which is the more environmentally friendly way to buy beer?
Local beer in a can is a winner, on balance.
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Black Bear energy drink provides a healthy dose of vitamin B12
The Bethel-based company says the types of B12 it uses are especially good for athletes and other active folks.
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Farmers grow their voices in the national organic field
Ann and Andrew Mefferd buy a magazine dedicated to helping small farmers.
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Vermont about to make Gilfeather turnip its state vegetable
A farmer and legislator who lived about a century ago crossbred a turnip with a rutabaga to come up with the tasty tuber.