Our Green Plate Special columnist compares and contrasts two cookbooks on food waste, one from 2018, the other from 1975.
Lifestyle
Arts, entertainment, food and books news from the Kennebec Journal and Morning Sentinel.
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After the election, get busy focusing on environmental progress
The midterms will be over soon, and the Natural Resources Council of Maine is ready to talk about the path forward.
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Homegrown: South Paris entrepreneur creates room and linen spray scents
Kim Perry started working with essential oils and herbs 20 years ago.
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Columnist Tom Atwell recaps the gardening season
2018 brought too few red peppers, too many ravenous squirrels, and the perfect number of pretty poppies.
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Ali Mediate is helping Maine families start gardens
How the Boston native turned into a raised bed raiser, on a shoestring.
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Climate anxiety: A strain of emotional stress is on the rise
The most common prescription is to go local and go outdoors, mental health professionals say.
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‘We have work to do’: Augusta rabbi calls on interfaith community to act, not just pray
About 200 people attended Shabbat services to support the Jewish community in wake of the Pittsburgh synsagogue shootings.
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OFF RADAR: ‘Add Water, Add Fire’
Karie Friedman’s poetic diamonds in the backwoods rough
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Trick or Treat event brings families, ghosts, ghouls to downtown Augusta for Halloween
Hundreds of area residents collected candy from downtown businesses at the August Downtown Alliance’s event, biled as a fun, safe evening
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J.P. Devine Movie Review: ‘Free Solo’
Alex Honnold climbs El Capitan wall without rope or equipment, Devine writes.