How to put your table scraps, leaves and grass clippings to use.
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Maine Gardener: These Maine-designed dresses give a whole new meaning to floral pattern
Just don’t put these outfits in the laundry.
Green Plate Special: Eat more lobster — this is the kind of ask we really like
The lobster industry has been hit hard this year. Here’s a recipe to help you do your bit to help them.
Maine Gardener: It’s not too late. Plant now, eat later
Borrow a technique from farmers called succession planting.
Maine Gardener: Public gardens around the state are reopening
Social-distancing rules are in place, but that doesn’t affect the beauty of Maine Coastal Botanical and other gardens.
Green Plate Special: Put down the remote and come back to the table
No more giving over the dinner table to pandemic projects. It’s been rededicated to dinner.
Green Plate Special: Pretty, tender and mild, Swiss chard deserves more love
Use it anywhere you might use spinach — and don’t toss out the stalks.
Maine Gardener: Plant perennial fruits and vegetables to be well-stocked for years
Then, when you crave asparagus, raspberries, rhubarb, apples…, you just walk out to your back yard and harvest dinner or a snack.
Maine Gardener: Do the environment a big favor; shrink your lawn
Replace it with a flower garden, and as a bonus, you won’t have to mow so much.
Green Plate Special: Can reusable shopping bags really transmit the coronavirus?
Or is spreading that fear the work of the plastics industry and climate change skeptics?