Step One is to wait and watch; you won’t know what you have for plants until after a full gardening season has gone by.
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Homegrown: Sand dollars are a stylish gift from the sea
The sand dollars that Sarah Kulis turns into necklaces are caught in her lobster traps, then dyed and sealed to preserve them.
Get busy checking out an edible perennial nursery in Falmouth
This tour of Edgewood Nursery is part of MOFGA’s Gather & Grow tour schedule.
Leaf blowers – a source of pointless pollution and maddening cacophony
Why do we keep inventions around that fail to promote the public good?
In Benton and elsewhere in Maine, industrial hemp is the crop to watch
How a legal shift in the state took a farm crop from zero to 60 in two years.
Recipe: Fish Salpicon
This dish uses one or more ingredients diced or minced and bound with a sauce.
All hands on dirt: Public gardens around Maine could use your help
Here are a few that rely on volunteers.
Lower greenhouse gas emissions with 4 changes in how you consume food
It’s a simple matter of watching your budget, your “food miles” and – most important – your consumption of meat and dairy.
Amy Sinclair signed on to manage an ailing farmers market in Yarmouth
In her fourth season, the picture is much prettier.
Demand for underused fish species grows slowly but surely in Maine
The trend may have something to do with a three-year-old Gulf of Maine Research Institute effort to get restaurants to serve less-traditional catches.