Home and Garden
Green spaces get greener
By Lori Johnston, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution on July 13, 2012, at 1:12 p.m.
ATLANTA — Whether you have a primary residence or vacation home, your personal green spaces can be updated with eco-friendly items. Here are six outdoor products with green qualities. Original Rainwater Pillow The Original Rainwater Pillow, created by Alpharetta, Ga., landscaper Jim Harrington, is an option for homeowners wanting to …
Johnny’s Selected Seeds now owned by employees
ALBION, Maine — Johnny’s Selected Seeds announced that it will be a 100 percent employee-owned company. The company, which is provides seeds, tools, information and sales, will hold an event celebrating the move at 5 p.m. Thursday, July 12, at its research farm in Albion. An employee stock ownership plan …
Bates student gives up potential career as doctor to become family’s eighth generation of farmers
By Kathryn Skelton, Sun Journal on June 17, 2012, at 5:41 a.m.
POLAND, Maine — Tomi Chipman was sitting in an anthropology class at Bates College in Lewiston, on a premed track, and realized she would rather be out in the field with her dad. By last fall, she had made up her mind. When she graduates, Chipman wants to be a …
Why it matters that ‘House Hunters’ is fake
By Marcelle Friedman, Slate on June 16, 2012, at 8:07 a.m.
From bait-and-switch marriage proposals to wig-pulling, cocktail-tossing catfights, it’s safe to say we’ve grown accustomed to absurd contrivance and scripting in “reality” television. But who would expect such dramatic puppet-mastering on HGTV? Apparently we all should have. Earlier this week on the website Hooked on Houses, former “House Hunters” participant …
Out of the ashes, Central Street’s garden grows
In 1979, the building at 26-28 Central St. in downtown Bangor housed a grocery store, owned by the Zoidis family. That year, the building burned to the ground, and after the charred remains were razed, the lot sat vacant for more than three decades. Businesses came and went around it. …
Spring is made when Magnolia ‘Butterflies’ emerges
It was not much more than a twig when it arrived. But I had high hopes for it, envisioning lush blossoms on elegant branches. Sure, I read it was a slow grower. But really, what gardener ever believes that line? I will admit that it has been so many years …
Transform the yard into a butterfly haven
In early spring, mourning cloaks entered the gardens of Charlotte Rhoades Park in Southwest Harbor. In search for tree sap, these large, dark butterflies, their wings edged with yellow and vibrant blue spots, wandered the dead plants and budding trees. A hibernating butterfly, it is one of the first to …
Gardening in Tune with Nature
on Jan. 19, 2012, at 1:58 p.m.
Learn what it takes to grow healthy plants in healthy soil
Achorn Farm
on Dec. 29, 2011, at 11:57 a.m.
Kim is a thirty something mom of two home schooled kids. Part-time nurse, full time farm girl.
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LePage’s plan to get tough on drug abuse needs to be more than a campaign speech
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