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The New U.S.D.A. Climate Zone Map
Zone 6 zone denial tip: standard hybrid gladioli are reliably hardy only to zone 9 - or 8b, maybe - but if you have well drained soil, plant them 5 or 6 inches deep and mulch heavily in fall (in this...
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Building an Outdoor Bread Oven – Part Two
In some ways this is really Part One, because although Bill’s set of instructions for building your own wood burning oven is thorough enough, the inspirational ovens of his childhood got only...
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To Find Ramps
Or not to find ramps – that is the question. More accurately, since simply finding them is fine, should one or should one not harvest them and if the answer is “Yes, they’re delicious!” at what point,...
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Magnolias, Maple Syrup and Climate Change
No news that the weather is pretty strange lately and that includes in the Hudson Valley, where we’re amassing broken records at a record-breaking pace: the hottest March, the hottest first quarter,...
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On Starting a Garden
Our garden is big. Yours doesn't have to be to yield lots of great food and flowers I did not hear this in person. Bill did (on Marketplace Money on NPR last Friday). But he couldn’t resist telling me...
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Lois Dodd and Her Students – Firehouse Center, Damariscotta, Maine, August...
It’s going to be a humdinger – as anyone who knows Lois and her work, as a painter and as a teacher, will have no trouble believing. There are probably thousands of artists who have profited by her...
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Lois Dodd – Catching the Light
I see Lois Dodd’s back a lot. Light comes into her barn studio through the same door I do, so she’s very seldom facing it. Portland, Maine: Last evening was almost balmy, this morning, not so much and...
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False Alarm
or more accurately, false alert. My struggles to learn how to post from my ipad seem to have resulted in the publication of a test post I did not intend to publish. So I unpublished it. Unfortunately,...
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Choosing A New Toaster – Need Help!
Behold our beloved old toaster. “Beloved.” Not an adjective I’d have used until about a week ago, when I started trying to find another one like it. As even the blurry photo shows, age has cracked...
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Leslie Mann Land, 1947-2013
Leslie’s obituary in the New York Times was written by her longtime friend in the publishing world, Denise Martin, with assistance by Charles Klaveness, her favorite editor at the Times and can be...
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