A stroll through Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens provides an education about plants that repel destructive insects.
September 2017
EPA’s Scott Pruitt’s push to roll back vehicle emission standards is a disaster
Lowering the standards harms air quality, destabilizes the climate and is bad for Mainers.
New York chastises EPA chief over river’s Superfund cleanup
At the rate the cleanup’s going, it will be 55 years or more before the fish are clean enough to eat once a week.
Make soup stock from whatever’s at hand – fish heads, ham hocks, chicken feet
As soup season nears, our columnist walks us through making stocks from all the bits and pieces you’d otherwise toss out.
Aster cultivars will brighten your fall garden
And if you treat them right, a plant many think of as an annual is actually a perennial.
How to protect your pup’s paws this winter
Rooted Earth Farm’s Paw Protector soothes with herbs, oils and beeswax.
Bill Nemitz: Still waters run deep; so should Collins’ aims
The maverick Republican should think big about her next campaign.
Teacher finds the lobster shift is a class by itself
Summer work used to keep Kenneth Chutchian on dry land, but this year he wouldn’t be trapped by the conventional.
The work of recreating ‘Christina’s World’
Christina Baker Kline spent three years researching the subject of Andrew Wyeth’s painting, then wrote a story about her life.
Camping cramping your style? More Maine businesses offer ‘glamping’ instead
Air mattresses and bug spray? Puh-lease! With luxury tents, app-based scouting services and elaborate treehouses, hospitality companies in the region have caught on to an international trend.