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Eye-to-eye with an Atlantic white cedar: when the author tripped over a giant sphagnum mound near Rochester, she found the cedar nursery habitat she had been seeking: the moist sphagnum moss below and shade from leatherleaf above was just right for raising young Atlantic white cedar seedlings.

Earth Matters: Falling for cedars

by Christine Hatch For the RecorderOctober 3, 2022

The ingredients to make the late Nancy Argeris’ delicious Greek Eggplant Pudding recipe.

Food

Pudding time once more

by Tinky Weisblat For the RecorderSeptember 27, 2022

Ray Holland and Tracy Drury turned most of their Greenfield yard into space for growing food and attracting pollinators. They enjoy visits from daughter Addie Rose Holland and granddaughter Olive Rosenberg, 6, who have their own gardens in Montague.

Rooted in the past, growing toward the future

by Eveline Macdougall For the RecorderSeptember 26, 2022

Although ajuga is not a particularly showy plant, it’s a reliable workhorse in the garden.

Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Lessons learned in a time of drought

by Mickey Rathbun For the RecorderSeptember 19, 2022

Native plants add beauty while supporting ecosystems. A row of wild senna and woodland sunflowers brightens an area at Checkerspot Farm in Colrain, where gardeners may choose from about 40 varieties of native plants.

Native plants for a living landscape

by Eveline Macdougall For the RecorderSeptember 12, 2022

Tom Mershon designs and tends gardens in Old Deerfield, including at the Memorial Hall Museum.

An artistic approach to gardening

by Eveline Macdougall For the RecorderAugust 29, 2022

This 1½-foot concrete statue of Bigfoot was taken off the front lawn at 57 South St. in Bernardston on June 22. The family that lives there thinks someone mistakenly took it, thinking it was free, but the family would like it back.

The hunt for ‘Bigfoot’

by Domenic Poli Staff WriterAugust 22, 2022

Meredith Benson and Victor Signore grow a lot of food in small spaces on their Turners Falls property.

Small space, big harvest: Turners Falls couple undaunted by gardening challenges

by Eveline Macdougall For the RecorderAugust 15, 2022

Grazing sheep at a farm in Cumbria, northwest England, the region where the Rebanks Farm is located.

Earth Matters: A farming journey: “Pastoral Song”: Three generations, three paradigms of an English farm

by Michael Dover For the RecorderAugust 8, 2022

The second story of the barn on Lucy Fagella and Terri Kerner's Greenfield homestead houses Fagella's pottery studio, where she produces functional kitchen items and urns to hold the cremains of people and pets, among other objects of beauty and practicality.

A thriving little farm right in town

by Eveline Macdougall For the RecorderAugust 5, 2022