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Alternative reality has become something of an art form these days in Washington; a case in point that could affect the rural Northeast involves a new labeling law the FDA is considering…

Today's drawing brought some sweet news for Owen Astbury, the winner of our spring raffle for a "Sapling" unit from the Vermont Evaporator Company. The funds from tickets will…

During morel season the south end of the kitchen counter gets commandeered: there’s a maple cutting board, brush, paring knife, bowl for trim, and the day’s take of mushrooms piled…

At this organization we will not tolerate a bad word said about the legendary flatpicker Doc Watson. The man was an icon. And yet it can be said – uncomfortably and with downcast eyes,…

We’re a generally rooted species – at least our contingent; the ones for whom place might be analogized to a limb that the body would not function properly without. It’s easy…

We’ll be publishing our next Reader’s Photo Gallery on May 11, and what a pleasure it has been after a long winter to see your images of spring wildlife, from bear cubs to…

I spent every afternoon with my infant daughter last May – it was both an act of love and a reflection of the childcare juggling act that parents do these days. She wasn’t a great…

Brick Moltz, the education director at The Fells Historic Estate on Lake Sunapee in New Hampshire, shared this wonderful series of images of a fox settling down in front of a game camera with…

So it never came back for us. It’s been perfect sap weather here for the last few weeks, but there’s been no sap coming out of our lines. The sap’s running – I’ve…

So the cumulative effect of the four March Nor’easters hit this area hard. Ten miles away from our Hall bush and 800 feet up in elevation, one weather-watcher documented 81 inches of…