A recent Home & Garden column featured Supreme Microgreens, a burgeoning home business founded this year by two UMass Amherst students in their...
Each spring the Connecticut River Valley is flooded with fresh colors and smells as leaves and flowers burst out of dormant buds on trees and...
Earlier this week my friend Lisa, a demon flower-designer, mentioned to me that she had agreed to provide the floral decorations for her cousin’s...
The days are longer, snow sculptures have melted and the seeds sleeping in the dirt are considering their next moves. Spring is here, and the...
A decade before Bryant Stewart and Jeanie Schermesser began transforming a former church into their home and art studio, Stewart spotted the Erving...
For Laura Schlaikjer, horticultural inspirations come from multiple branches of her family tree: relatives on her father’s side were Midwestern...
Planning this year’s garden? My guess is you’re envisioning plants bathed in daylight.But the problem is that by nightfall, when the sun has set...
A few years ago I was having coffee with my two sisters-in-law at a family gathering in North Carolina. Both of them had recently built new houses...
When I’m perusing catalogs offering bulbs for spring flowers, I usually jump right to the pages of boldly colored tulips and narcissi. I skip over...
Ray Holland and Tracy Drury grow many kinds of vegetables in their Greenfield yard, as well as plants to attract pollinators. In doing so, each...
While traveling on Greenfield’s Leyden Road, it’s easy to miss that there’s a small farm thriving right in town. A stone walkway leading to a gate...
Happy solstice and welcome to the longest day! It seems fitting to celebrate someone who brings light and wisdom to people around the world, while...