Almost every garden has a shady spot where a shade-loving plant or two is required. Last summer, we put up a 6-foot fence. One side of that fence...
It has been a warmer winter than most, and even though there is still snow covering my yard in Leeds, the farm fields in Hadley and Sunderland are...
For more than half a century, a one floor ranch house built in 1949 at 3 Langworthy Rd. in Northampton was a center of activism and grassroots...
It’s early morning on a school day. I am up before the sun, thanks to the local high school’s ridiculously early start-time (don’t get me going...
Landscape architects are finding themselves on the front lines of the climate change crisis, having to come up with creative ways to adapt and help...
Americans took out nearly $150 billion in loans backed by the Federal Housing Administration to buy homes in 2018. Nearly 83% of those FHA...
At what age do parents begin assigning chores to their children? For one family in Northampton, chores began when their children turned 10, helping...
NEW PALTZ, N.Y. — Remind me not to plant camellias.Not that camellias (Camellia japonica) aren’t wonderful plants, with their elegant, sometimes...