Portland Beer Week opens Sunday, runs through Nov. 10, and has something for everyone who loves beer or might like to try it.
Tom Atwell
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Maine Gardener: Looking back, this gardening season was sow, sow bountiful
With the first frost a couple of weeks ago, this garden season came to an end. And it was a good one. It started early, lasted late, and except for one dry spell in the middle, had enough rain that we did not have to get the sprinklers out much. Let’s go first with the […]
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My fellow beer lovers …
This July 4, let us resolve to boldly try new brews.
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What Ales You: Imperial Red King Crimson, a bulked-up Spring Ale
Also: Penobscot Bay Brewery’s Old Factory Whistle Scottish Ale and Sierra Nevada’s Ruthless Rye
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What Ales You: Brewing community welcomes Bunker to the fold
Bunker Brewing Co. is now brewing on Anderson Street in Portland.
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Maine Gardener: Native birds do better with native plants
It’s not just the native plants but the insects they attract that will going to support the avian population.
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What Ales You: For a Peak experience, sample Simcoe while you can
It’s worth a try before it disappears from store shelves.
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Maine Gardener: Dig in, dig up before your gardens take a winter snooze
You should really give your gardens a good cleaning out this fall — both your vegetable gardens and flower gardens. The extent of your cleaning depends partly on your personal taste and partly on the number of pests in your garden. “We used to leave a lot of perennials up for the winter,” William Cullina […]
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Author Q & A: Game On
…and on and on: A new book tells the story of the longest baseball game, who played and who stayed to see the PawSox and the Rochester Red Wings duke it out over 33 innings.
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Maine Gardener: Heirloom Garden’s unusual bulbs worth the wait
Diana George Chapin — who with her mother, Sandy George, runs the Heirloom Garden of Maine in Montville — loves fritillaria. Her particular favorite is Fritillaria meleagris, also called the checkered lily, which has small, checkered, bell-shaped flowers in maroon-purple and white. “This is just a stunning little plant,” she said when I called her […]