Some autumns see a lot of apples on the trees in our hills in Hawley. In such years, my neighbor Alice speculates that the literal windfall of...
Fletcher Farm, just off Route 10 in Southampton, is the kind of place many probably envision when they hear the phrase “family farm”: a small New...
The time of cruciferous vegetables has arrived. This vitamin-rich group consists of a lot of different cabbage relatives, most of them green...
We planted our garden in late spring, just a few weeks after my mother passed. At first, I barely walked over to it. When I finally did pay a visit...
Gardening writer Barbara Wilde writes, “Okra is like the Mason-Dixon line of vegetable gardens, separating North from South.” It’s true that most...
At Phoenix Fruit Farm in Belchertown, owner Elly Vaughan is reimagining how a mid-size orchard like hers — one of hundreds in the hills of western...
This week, I feature a dish that was frequently made by a woman who would have called it a “homely receipt.” American novelist Louisa May Alcott...
Flourish Farm, a one-woman operation owned by Linda Fuchs, is a small farm with an oversized impact. Fuchs grows specialized crops on “half an acre...