Wood ashes. The ghosts of winter fires past. Those who heat with wood probably have a galvanized garbage can of them saved by now, planning to scatter them in the garden as…
Richard Marble of the Marble Family Farms is shown here at a recent Farmers’ Meeting sharing a reprint from the 1938 USDA Yearbook of Agriculture “Soils and Men.” The goals of the…
A ‘Deane’ apple still hopefully grows in Temple. It was cold in January. Twenty-five degrees below zero cold in the hills of Temple with rumors of 35 degrees below zero down in…
Henry David Thoreau didn’t have much use for what he called the “more civilized (cultivated) apple.” Writing in his journal in the mid 19th century, he described its taste as “tame and…
FARMINGTON – Despite the fact that the price for recyclable goods bottomed out toward the end of last year, 2008 was a pretty good year for the Sandy River Recycling Association, the…
Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the April ’07 print version of the Daily Bulldog. Sugarsnap: the pea that you can eat raw – pod and all – straight off the…
Cabin Fever? If sitting close to the stove and pouring over maps of far flung places or the fine print of an unabridged dictionary isn’t a cure, try Fedco’s seed catalogue. It…
Bussie York of Sandy River Farms in Farmington, talks with an equipment salesman at the 68th Annual Agricultural Trades Show on Tuesday, the first day of the three-day show, Jan. 13-15 held…
FARMINGTON – Flush from a season of high prices for recyclables, the directors of Sandy River Recycling Association voted last week to lower the cost it charges member towns for processing and…
Pumpkins and Halloween go hand in hand, but that wasn’t always the case. Before there was Halloween, before there were Jack O’Lanterns, there were Celtic priests aka Druids who built sacrificial bon(e)…