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Food & Dining, Green plate special, Recipes

Can you eat Maine bluefin tuna with a clear conscience?

by Christine Burns Rudalevige July 4, 2021July 6, 2021

It’s complicated, but here’s a hint to tuna lovers: the news is good.

Food & Dining, Maine Gardener

Do the patriotic thing: Grow a garden

by Tom Atwell July 4, 2021July 6, 2021

For a whole host of reasons, gardening is good citizenship.

Food & Dining, Maine Gardener

Grow: Perennial seeds

by Tom Atwell July 4, 2021July 6, 2021

Except for succession planting – where you plant fast-developing vegetables such as lettuce and beets throughout the season so you can harvest throughout the season – there is now little to be started in the vegetable garden. But that doesn’t mean you have to stop planting. It is a good time to plant pollinator-friendly perennials […]

Food & Dining, Restaurant reviews

Dine Out Maine: Eat the Weekend

by Andrew Ross July 4, 2021July 7, 2021

Whether you’re a visitor or a local, this food-filled fantasy weekend in Greater Portland has plenty for you.

Life & Culture, Maine Authors

OFF RADAR: ‘The Gatherings: Reimagining Indigenous-Settler Relations’

by Dana Wilde July 1, 2021June 30, 2021

A collection of recollections concerning a series of “gatherings” in the 1980s and ’90s by more than a dozen white people and Maine and Canadian Wabanakis