And the envelope please … Actors have the Oscars, college football has the Heisman Trophy. At this time of year, organizations from the garden industry also name their winners. As with the Oscars, some of the prizes are for lifetime achievement: The Perennial Plant of the Year and Cary Award are for established plants that […]
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No twiddling that green thumb: Find a class this winter
Gardening classes, lectures and meetings throughout Maine should keep you happy till spring arrives.
Homegrown: Dill pickles offset season’s excessive sweetness
Maine Homestead’s product has a spicy kick.
You didn’t finish the champagne and it’s gone flat? Cook with it
Columnist Christine Burns Rudalevige offers many ideas.
Sea Change: The documentary ‘Fed Up’ says food corporations are pushing sugar
And all that sugar is making us sick.
For 2015, five hopes for a brave new Maine
We asked five Mainers in eco-friendly fields what change they’d like to see in the new year.
Editor’s letter: Mea culpa, and here’s to living greener in 2015
Source editor Peggy Grodinsky takes her resolutions public, the better to live up to them.
Grow: Sprouts are fast, cheap and tasty
And they’re one way to keep your gardening chops strong in winter.
Meet Kate Wentworth: Wanderlust steers young woman to a yurt in York County
She sees a winter with no electricity or running water as a way of connecting with ancestral ways.