My sweetie is on a limited diet right now, due to a nickel allergy. Because nickel is the third most common element on earth, nickel is i...

IS HAIR REPELLENT? Are the deer eating your shrubs this winter? There are several possible deer deterrents, but today i want to focus on...

Last summer i read Animal,Vegetable, Miracle by Barbara Kingsolver. Although I didn't make a conscious decision to become a localvo...

Arctic winds are racking the body of Mother Earth here in the Northeast. After the rally of the January thaw, and just when we though...

Sitting on the sofa in the evening, looking through seed catalogs is surely the first harbinger of spring. Page by page, possible vegeta...

  The January thaw has arrived. Drip. Drip. Drip. The snow on the roof is melting and will soon avalanche off the north side of the house....

The signature sound of Puerto Rico is the coqui ( ko-KEE ), a tiny frog who sings all night long. For a miniature frog, it has an out-size...