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...
Whenever I hear the phrase “Many hands make light the work,” I think of an old cartoon depicting an Egyptian pharaoh uttering that phrase as he...
A few days after I received this year’s University of Massachusetts Amherst Gardening Calendar, I happened to come across a reference to Leo...
As a non-farmer, my idea of farming has always been limited to one of two images: a cozy little farm on a hillside with a single happy farmer...
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...
I’ve been brushing up on my Italian this summer, and one word that keeps popping up in the Italian press is ”sicitta.” It means drought. We’re not...
Fungi — bane or blessing? Nuisance or nourishing? Delicious or deadly? Answer: Yes, and more.On the plus side, as I explain below, many of Earth’s...
After 35 years in the nursery business, including as manager of Hadley Garden Center and later at Wanczyk Nursery, Dan Ziomek is more passionate...