Prices for high-end fashions don’t shock at Portland’s What the Frock.
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Sure, grow your own flowers for nuptials, but have a plan B
Tips include growing practice blooms and planting more than you need.
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To run their businesses, farmers need reliable Internet connections
Maine legislators propose a slew of bills aimed at providing it.
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Cultivating Community receives $750,000 to help immigrants who want to farm
Portland-based Cultivating Community will receive a $750,000 federal grant to continue the work the nonprofit does to help immigrants, many of them from war-torn countries in Africa, become farmers in Maine. Craig Lapine, executive director of the nonprofit group, said the grant is the largest Cultivating Community has ever received at one time. A 2009 […]
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Sea Change: Investors take a chance to plant seeds in Maine’s food economy
People who measure wealth and risk in more than monetary terms are drawn to community-based investing.
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Homegrown: Hand-knit, locally made reusable Swiffer covers
If you’ve got a Swiffer Sweeper at home, you know how fast those little white cloths can become a nasty mess, coated in dirt, pet hair and whatever other filth is hiding in your floorboards. For me, there’s something deeply satisfying about seeing that pristine cloth spoiled, since it means my house is that much […]
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For fatter blooms on trees and shrubs, you may have to cut
In practice, that means carefully but boldly pruning.
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Show your sweetie some Maine love with maple syrup
Pancakes in bed topped by the good stuff are a good start, but Maple-Walnut Shortbread Hearts will also show your affection.
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What’s that? Double-sided paper
Remember the paperless office? It was first forecast some 40 years ago, but based on white paper use in my own office (and the last one, and the one before that – all in the field of publishing), we’ve a ways to go. An informal survey of friends in fields from architecture to retail to […]
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Grow: Forcing blooms
It’s time to force spring to come to Maine. (After this week – and the bad news from Punxsutawney Phil – boy is it ever.) While you can’t make Mother Nature relinquish her hold, you can force some of your spring-blooming shrubs to make an early appearance. A friend emailed me a couple of weeks […]