Try being your own florist when dressing up your home for the holidays.
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Giving thanks for holiday leftovers and for reducing waste
A tasty hash helps you enjoy leftovers instead of adding to the tons in landfills.
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Food sovereignty movement grows roots among Passamaquoddy
With dozens of garden beds and a focus on self-sustaining practices, the tribe is returning to old foodways.
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Rediscovering native American heritage seeds
A retired professor and Abenaki native hunts for the seeds so the crops can be grown again.
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Pie for Breakfast: From songs to ammunition, spuds loom large in Maine history
The potato goes deep in the state’s culture and industry.
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Apple-Cranberry Cider
The Ricker Hill Cider beverage is lightly carbonated.
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New books plant seeds in growers’ minds
Whether for yourself or as a gift, these books offer how-to advice and inspiration for all sorts of gardeners.
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Sea Change: Why we ignore climate disruption, and why we shouldn’t
Our brains are wired to sidestep slow-moving, complex changes of global warming, but we can change.
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Meet: Science writer, real estate agent and South Portland resident Hannah Holmes
South Portland resident Hannah Holmes has published four nonfiction, science-oriented books including “Quirk: Brain Science Makes Sense of Your Peculiar Personality,” “The Well-Dressed Ape: A Natural History of Myself” and “Suburban Safari,” which examined the inhabitants of her backyard (spiders, chipmunks and crows included). But the publication of “Quirk” corresponded with a general crash in […]
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Thinking big about buying meat, and small in cooking it
For a svelter you and a greener world, eat stew with lots of flavor but less beef.