They taste faintly of zucchini, only sweeter.
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Cooperation the goal for two Portland crowd-funded startups
The Open Bench Project and the Maine Tool Library gear up to help Mainers who yearn to create but lack the tools, space or know-how.
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Meet Stephanie O’Neil, founder of garden clubs for children
The carrots at your favorite restaurant? Club kids may have dug them.
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Homegrown: Conversation Glass
Matt Staudenmaier is constantly on the lookout for bottles he can “upcycle” into a set of glasses, a piece of jewelry, or other objects.
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Grow: High-bush blueberries
While low-bush blueberries dominate Maine’s commercial crop, high-bush blueberries are better suited to home gardeners.
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What’s That? Fresh Native Ice Cubes
A 30-year-old sign in Falmouth starts a conversation.
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Boom times for garlic in Maine
We’re eating more, growing more and planting 70 varieties.
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Kids love whole local kosher-style pickles
Brining a bucket of wild-fermented dill pickles is the ideal, relatively effortless, family summer food-preservation project.
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Two by two, married gardeners weed and hoe
What arrangements do they devise to tend the roses and the parsnips?