Despite the lingering snow and cold this year, migrant birds are returning. American woodcock have come back and started their mating dances. Yellow-bellied sapsuckers are back, too, and tending…
Home and Garden
CEI announced its new membership in the national NeighborWorks network during its annual meeting on March 10. In order to become a chartered NeighborWorks…
Come and join Susie Stephenson, primitive folk and fiber artist, at Spectrum Generations' Coastal Community Center, 521 Main Street, Suite 8, Damariscotta on Monday…
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCD) of Knox-Lincoln, Waldo, and…
Time to start remembering what is underneath all this snow in your yard!
The annual, always popular, plant sale offered…
Coastal Enterprises, Inc. (CEI), a nonprofit community development organization, with the support of Maine State Housing Authority, will offer the…
There is no better way to do “think spring” than to place your order for the Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District’s…
The first official day of spring is just two weeks away, but outside we are still in the throes of winter. A perfect time for a flower show. The annual Portland Flower Show theme for 2015 is “A…
The Morris Farm and Chewonki are pleased to present "Local Food, Local Hunger: A Community Forum on Food Security in Lincoln County" this Saturday, March 7. The event is scheduled…
A Bird’s Tale
We’ve been thinking lately about the idea of habitat.
Maybe because the recent onslaught of winter storms has left most of us confined to the small habitat inside and near our homes. Birders…
Walpole quiltmaker/fiber artist, Janet B. Elwin will be exhibiting a collection of new “little” wall size quilts at the Miles Hospital Campus from Feb. 14 through…
The Bath Garden Club will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at noon at Grace Episcopal Church, 1100 Washington St., Bath…
From buying clubs to supermarkets accounts, the surge in demand for locally grown products invites new wholesaling opportunities for Maine farmers during a time when the prices of foods “from away…
From its beginning in 2007, when 10 founders used their homes for collateral to purchase 128 acres of pristine coastal land in Boothbay, the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has…
Clamshell Quilters meets monthly to promote the “hobby” of quilting, teach and learn new techniques, share ideas and inspire. Our meetings are held typically the…
A Bird’s Tale
It’s one of the rarest birds in the world, with less than 250 breeding pairs in the entire population. It nests on only a few tiny islets just…
The Bath Garden Club will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 20, at noon at Grace Episcopal Church, 1100 Washington Street, Bath. …
A Bird’s Tale
Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and the mayhem of Black Friday (if you buy into such schemes) has “cashiered” in the official gift-giving season, why not change it up a bit by thinking of “…
Patricia Moroz is an artist. She makes sculptures that delight people. Photos are taken of them, and people gush over them. Then they eat them.
…
Grow It In Maine
By now, new perennials and bulbs have been planted.
Unless you’re looking for spring surprises, you’ve marked where you set them.
Marked? How?
Many householders keep a map of…
A Bird’s Tale
We bought some fancy mixed bird seen recently that included lots of nuts, which were avidly sought after by both the squirrels and the blue jays. One…
Restock your fridge with life! Lacto-Fermentation is an ancient food preservation technique that helps repair a stressed digestion and helps maintain a healthy one.
Packed with probiotics,…
A Bird’s Tale
Just yesterday we heard the whiney “shree” sounds of pine siskins in our neighborhood and were delighted to find a flock of about 40 descending into the bare branches of a maple a block away. This…
It's time for the annual fall birdseed sale held by the Mid-Coast Audubon chapter. Proceeds help the chapter with its nesting box program and help provide the many free educational programs held…
Grow it in Maine
“I have to go home and yell at my beans,” said Matthew.
“Huh? What beans?” I asked this Boy Scout.
“It’s my science project,” he continued, explaining his experiment.
That year,…
The FARMS Community Kitchen above Damariscotta’s Rising Tide Community Market is now open. This month schoolchildren, teenagers, parents and grandparents from all…
A Bird’s Tale
Maine is well known and loved for its Atlantic puffins and common loons, bald eagles and ospreys.
…
Grow it in Maine
In a former garden grew a small, secret grove of crocus. They were purple, white-striped; among them, snowdrops, looking like miniature Nubian goat heads, would have pushed through last year’s…
Grow it in Maine
Last year’s poinsettia has spent the summer outdoors.
If it was set in a semi-shaded garden bed, it must have flourished through last summer’s benign climate. Its lush foliage would have…
Grow it in Maine
The east-facing porch shelters many potted plants.
But look! Among them, I found a few without greenery but full of soil.
At the same time, I had some seeds left from spring sowing.…
So far this summer, Master Gardener Volunteers at the Morris Farm in Wiscasset have harvested and donated over 600 pounds of fresh, organically-grown produce.
Since early June, all of it has…
Grow it in Maine
Without bees and other insects, our food crops could vanish. As those creatures forage among flowers, they carry pollen from one plant to others, helping them to set seed for…
Grow it in Maine
The short, steep bank beside the road presents an ever-changing picture.
In spring, pink lady’s slipper orchids hide among the woods along its top. Later, leaves and white flowers, visited…
Grow it in Maine
“Whose family is yours?”
Centuries ago, that query spurred scholars to name and define every kind of plant or animal they knew. They…
Grow it in Maine
Ruth gave me a large, low planter box, almost as a challenge. Where should I set it? How should I fill it?
In…
Wiscasset Garden Club
The Garden Club of Wiscasset continues its Sunday garden tours this week on June 29. The next location is at Marianmade Farm, 28 Sherman Lane, in…
Grow It In Maine
“What’s this?” asked Charlotte, holding a stiff stem topped by daisy-like flowers.
She had a piece of ragged Robin, easily identified by its deep rose…
Boothbay Region Garden Club
Here's a sneak peek at the Boothbay Region Garden Club's July 25th Home and Garden Tour.
You'll want to know more, but that will come later. Start making your plans now to visit these very…
Grow It In Maine
For bees, enkianthus (“EN-key-AN-thus”) bushes now offer a late spring treat. From where I sit, bumblebees are the biggest fans, scrambling over the clusters or racemes of small,…
Grow it in Maine
Eight-foot, crimson-topped poinsettias formed a hedge by the restaurant.
We were enjoying a late-winter cruise in the Caribbean and had come ashore…
Grow it in Maine
“I’m way behind,” Nancy groaned. “By this time, I thought I’d have the garden all planted.”
In 2014, there’s been plenty of rain to keep most of us out…
Grow it in Maine
Not all insects are garden villains.
According to the National Garden Bureau, besides honeybees and butterflies, one finds garden heroes. Six of…
Photo: Wiscasset Garden Club
Recently the Garden Club of Wiscasset held a children's planting event at the Wiscasset Library. The children, along with getting their hands dirty, learned about planting, growing and…
Grow It In Maine
A single bottle showed Dr. Nathaniel Bagshaw Ward a way to preserve growing plants.
In London, the 19th century…
Like all great things, the upcoming feature on artists Carlton and Joan Plummer began with an idea. And, in this case, an idea contained in a letter.
…
Grow it in Maine
Through winter, many gardeners created plant lists for this season.
Now, more catalogs filled with enticing new growing things …
Grow it in Maine
At this time of year, many Maine foragers think of fiddleheads.
These are the beginnings of many kinds of ferns. Somehow, …
Signs of spring continue to appear throughout the Gardens. The horticulture staff has spread the mulch, the gift shop staff has stocked the shelves, and…
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District holds its Spring Plant Sale, Backyard Conservation Sale & Garden Fair at Union Fairgrounds on Saturday, May 3 from 9 a.m. to…
Grow it in Maine
One day, spring trudges out of mud, the next, it dances.
Quickly, look up at the rise above Oak Street at the patch of blue squills, or scilla. Planted years ago, the tiny flowers have…
