On a swampy August day, I had the delightful experience of helping a group of kids build a sandcastle. We built it above the tide line and created motes and walls and a system of drainage to hold back the incoming tide. All of this was to protect the precious “treasury” — a collection of […]

On an assemblage of vacant lots and other pockets of unused land in the Bronx, gardeners from low-income neighborhoods have banded together to create over a dozen “farm hubs,” coordinating their community gardens and their harvest. Several years ago, some discovered that, together, their small gardens could grow enough peppers to mass-produce hot sauce — […]

Midcoast Literacy — a Bath-based nonprofit providing free tutoring for children and adults — is seeking volunteers for short-term and long-term programs this fall. Midcoast Literacy’s Conversation Café will be running a series of weekly sessions at Wild Oats Bakery at Brunswick Landing starting Sept. 16. This is an informal opportunity for adult English Language […]

While I often focus on intertidal species for this column, this week I wanted to write about a marine animal that lives in the subtidal. In fact, it can go into impressively deep subtidal (beneath the lowest tide line) habitats. That means it is sometimes difficult to see since it spends most of its life under […]