Right now the 63-year-old retiree from the Bronx is walking through Maine toward Canada.
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Posted inFood & Dining, Green plate special, Source
Wild strawberries are here, there and everywhere
Until you need them to make strawberry sorbet, when they’re nowhere to be found.
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Posted inMaine Gardener, Source
How to rehabilitate an abandoned garden
Step One is to wait and watch; you won’t know what you have for plants until after a full gardening season has gone by.
Posted inHomegrown, Source
Homegrown: Sand dollars are a stylish gift from the sea
The sand dollars that Sarah Kulis turns into necklaces are caught in her lobster traps, then dyed and sealed to preserve them.
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Get busy checking out an edible perennial nursery in Falmouth
This tour of Edgewood Nursery is part of MOFGA’s Gather & Grow tour schedule.
Posted inSea Change, Source
Leaf blowers – a source of pointless pollution and maddening cacophony
Why do we keep inventions around that fail to promote the public good?
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In Benton and elsewhere in Maine, industrial hemp is the crop to watch
How a legal shift in the state took a farm crop from zero to 60 in two years.
Posted inLife & Culture, Religion and Values
Ex-priest accused of abuse allowed access to Chicago schools
Cleric Bruce Wellems was forced to leave the priesthood for sexually abusing a boy of 6 when he was around 15.
Posted inLife & Culture, Lifestyle, Local & State
Hallowell prepares to host city’s first Pride event this weekend
The event, intended to be the first of many, will do without a parade this year because of road construction on Water Street.
Posted inArts & Entertainment, Life & Culture, Lifestyle, Local & State, Music
Gardiner festival to heat up this weekend with concerts, car show
The Great Race stops in Gardiner on Tuesday, capping off events throughout the weekend that include free outdoor summer waterfront concerts.