Friday’s episode of “Dual Survival” was filmed early this spring at Cutler Coast Public Reserved Land and Quoddy Head State Park.
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What Ales You: Toast the USA with red, white and blue brews
Beer and the Fourth of July go together like, well, beer and hot dogs, or beer and fireworks. So as far as I am concerned, you can show your patriotism by drinking any American-made beer this weekend. Heck, I’ll even say it’s OK to drink Miller Lite, if your mouth is averse to flavor. But […]
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Maine Gardener: Mulch can mean life or death for your plants
Mulch can make your garden healthier and easier to maintain. It also can kill your plants. It all depends on how you use it. “Mulch” is one of those words that has so many meanings, you have to depend on context to know what is meant. You put mulch on perennial and shrub borders to […]
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Author Q & A: Keep the change
For Portland money coach Jane Honech, the key to real — and lasting — financial transformation lies in first understanding how we look at money.
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What Ales You: Brewers bring out their best to benefit Maine charities
Victoria Mansion will be uncasking the latest batch of Allagash Brewing Co.’s Victoria Ale at a party from 5 to 8 p.m. Friday. The event costs $15 to $25. Victoria Ale, wonderfully complex and brewed with lots of white wine grapes — usually chardonnay, but vidal blanc in 2010 — is brewed every year, with […]
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Maine Gardener: At USM Gorham, gardener’s legacy growing on students
Rhododendrons from two outstanding collections have been put together to create the Joe B. Parks Rhododendron Garden at the University of Southern Maine in Gorham. The garden was dedicated earlier this month as part of the inaugural USM Arboretum Day and Plant Sale. The Rhododendron Garden is part of the larger USM Arboretum, which actually […]
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What Ales You? Who’s picking up the tab? With Utopias, you better ask
Writing this column has some great moments, but it also has some tough ones. Receiving a bottle of Samuel Adams Utopias in the mail from Boston Beer Company turned out to be both great and tough. This is an extreme beer. A fancy 22-ounce bottle with accompanying Riedel wine glass retails for $150. This is […]
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Maine Gardener: Renewed, improved garden opening Thursday
Sometimes you have to do things over. People renovate houses. Books have second editions. Artists will paint a second version of the same scene. Hitchcock even made two versions of “The Man Who Knew Too Much.” The same is true with gardens, whether at a home or in a public garden. The Haney Hillside Garden […]
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What Ales You: OK, eight guys walk into a beer-tasting, right?
Maine’s brewers may have stumbled onto a way to make fruit beers more palatable to your standard beer drinker. You make the fruit flavor just barely detectable. That, at least, was the key to the success of Smashed Blueberry (the latest in the series of Alan Pugsley’s Signature Series from Shipyard Brewing Co.) and Pete […]
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Maine Gardener: The plots thicken
Memorial Day weekend for some means a trip to the cemetery with flowers for family grave sites. Here are ideas on how to proceed and which plants work best.