Every year, on the first Sunday in October, the Boilard family hops into a caravan of cars and drives to Giles Family Farm in Alfred to pick a bushel of apples. When they get back to their home in Biddeford, they use their family’s traditional cider press to make homemade cider. It isn’t easy, but […]
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Meet: Peter Felsenthal, who chronicles the work of Maine farmers
His book ‘New Growth’ shows the beauty and the grit of the farming life.
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Meet Bob Garver, owner of Wicked Joe Coffee
From the company’s solar-powered Topsham roastery to its electric vans, the Maine coffee business strives to be as sustainable as possible.
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Market Watch: Sugar snap peas
I am feeling depressed about sugar snap peas. I waited all winter long – it was an awfully long winter – for this sweet and snappy taste of early summer, but now that the peas have arrived, I don’t think I can afford them. Sugar snaps are selling for, gulp, $9 a pound, or some […]
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What to plant when you no longer want a lawn
Tired of the maintenance? Replace your lawn with anything from pavement to petunias.
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Homegrown: Biodegradable straws
‘Straw straws,’ made of winter rye, can help reduce the plastic polluting the ocean and harming sea life.
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Leg Work: Mainers jump on as bike sharing rolls from cities into towns
Need to run errands? In Norway, lime-green bikes are yours for the asking, thanks to homegrown efforts.
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It takes guts to contain onslaught of food allergies
Columnist Laura McCandlish cautiously reintroduces strawberries to her son, lest he break out in hives.
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Green Plate Special: Use stone fruit pits to give desserts a haunting almond flavor
The French call it noyaux. We call it delicious.
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When thumbs go seriously green
Hardcore gardeners in Maine use farming methods in urban landscapes to grow what they eat and share.