I love watching the birds in my garden — which is not to say that I know them by name or species.Blue jays, robins and the ruby-throated...
It seems like the whole town of Greenfield has been making New Year’s resolutions to work more energetically with trees and plants to make this a...
Poet Emily Dickinson (1830-1883) and Collingwood “Cherry” Ingram (1880-1981), a British ornithologist and plant collector, were both gardeners who...
While I am an avid reader, gardening books didn’t have a big place in my life until our family was preparing to leave New York City for the wilds...
This year, a heavy crop of acorns is falling on the ground. Look under any oak tree, or walk across the campus at Greenfield Community College, and...
When “The Half-Hour Allotment” by Lia Leendertz (a book written for gardeners) showed up in my mailbox, I was delighted to learn about a system...
GREENFIELD — Nancee Bershof loves to garden, so when she was given the opportunity to plant one on the sloped grassy area in front of the YMCA in...
At this time of the year in New England, we are surrounded by pumpkins, at farmstands, and in front of all the supermarkets. But how did we come to...