Garden plan and journal: Daydream and draw your 2021 garden. Give your child some seed catalogues, a notebook and glue stick and have your child make a 2021 Garden Plan Journal. Plant outside: Peas and radishes are a great pair to plant with kids. Pea seeds are big, making them easy for little hands to […]
Peggy Grodinsky
Staff Writer
Peggy is the editor of the Food & Dining section and the books page at the Portland Press Herald. Previously, she was executive editor of Cook’s Country, a Boston-based national magazine published by America’s Test Kitchen. She spent several years in Texas as food editor at the Houston Chronicle. Peggy has taught food writing to graduate students at New York University and Harvard Extension School. She worked for seven years at the James Beard Foundation in New York and spent a year as a journalism fellow at the University of Hawaii. Her work has appeared in “Best of Food Writing” in 2017 and in “Cornbread Nation 4: The Best of Southern Food Writing” in 2008.
Letter from the Source editor
The pandemic has commanded our attention so much over the past year that it has been hard to have any energy left over (renewable or otherwise) to worry about the grave environmental problems we face, let alone to try to fix them. That’s the story for me, anyway, but as we paged through the nearly […]
Unexpected acts of empathy in the animal kingdom
Belinda Recio explores the surprising ways animals help one another.
Raised beds or in-ground gardening? Which is right for you?
If you have good soil, garden in the ground. It’s easier because you don’t have to build beds and add soil to them. But if you have ledge, rocky soil, lead in your soil or perhaps you have trouble bending down to reach the garden, use a raised bed. In sum, in the soil is […]
Through time and geography, 11 great Maine writers illuminate the state
In ‘Hidden Places, ” Joseph Conforti makes a strong case for the state’s place in the larger literary world.
Vegan Kitchen: Have you heard about the Vice President’s lunch?
Kamala Harris stopped for vegan tacos in Las Vegas recently. Would she like a side of policy with that?
Vegetable gardening season is here: Ready, set, go
Are you a new gardener? Follow this timeline and our tips to get started this season.
Read about the three 2021 recipients of MOFGA’s Russell Libby Scholarships
The face of farming in Maine: Three young women cherish the soil, their state and the planet.
Two Minutes in Quarantine
Collaborate with mystery writer James W. Ziskin in the Maine Writer & Publishers annual Crime Wave Flash fiction contest
In a new memoir, Maine’s rock star chef Erin French hits bottom and gets a second chance
‘Finding Freedom: A Cook’s Story; Remaking a Life from Scratch’