After six years operating out of its founder’s home, the organization is looking for a new site and a new executive director.
gardening
Landscape with native wild edibles
Humans get something to eat and attractive plants for their yard. Wildlife gets a share of the food, plus comfortable places to live and breed.
Happy Birthday MOFGA!
The nonprofit Maine Organic Farmers and Gardeners Association turns 50 this year, and hopes to celebrate its past achievements and future goals with a bang (and in person!).
Landscape your lakefront house like the lake’s life depends on it. In fact, it does
When it rains, pesticides, fertilizers and other pollutants wash off the lawn directly into the lake. Employ these landscaping strategies to help keep the lake clear, clean and hospitable to fish.
A ‘natural design’ garden will attract nature to your garden
Skip the lawn, and let your garden mimic the natural cycles of wildland.
And the envelope please: Plants of the year for a very strange year
The Perennial Plant Association and the All-America Selections have named their picks.
Maine Gardener: Blessings in the garden – and otherwise
In a tough year, the garden has helped.
Maine Gardener: Gifts for the gardener in your life
They’ll thank you later for seeds, tools or a gift certificate to a local nursery.
In the winter a gardener’s fancy lightly turns to thoughts of houseplants
And some of them are really weird.
Maine Gardener: Invite wildlife in with a ‘lawn conversion’
Replace your lawn with a meadow of native perennials. Then sit back and wait for the birds, bees and butterflies to show up.