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A light, first frost came early to the Berkshires this year, prompting home gardeners to cover and protect ...

The air is crisp and fresh. The mid-September sun melts over the changing leaf cover on the hillsides ...

“To mow or not to mow?” That is the question.

For some of us, this “garden” thing we do is as much about love as it is an ...

When I was five years old, my father taught me how to whistle. I felt pretty special, sitting ...

With just one bite of a freshly picked strawberry, it is possible to eradicate any residual weather-induced trauma suffered ...

The seed of a poppy can lie dormant in the ground for 80 years and sometimes more, it ...

With the bedroom windows open to the cool night air, early morning birdsong slips between the curtains, tripping ...

My mother’s hands have shaped at least a thousand loaves of bread. She learned this from her mother, ...

The growth in April, which is often sharp in taste and bitter, is the one we are given ...

There is nothing like the aroma of warm, rich, soil hitting your senses on that first legitimate day ...

Clutter is sly, and dirt is ingenious.

These excursions coursed the very real and sometimes bumpy roads of human interaction, from which we learned to ...

The urgency of spring in its upward rush is so different from the inward spiral of late fall.

The sugar maple, hands down, is the certain hero of an otherwise fickle month.

Ah, February, with all your indecisive ice and snow! If it weren’t for that teasing little warm front ...

This winter is an accordion of extremes, fluctuating dramatically in contractions and expansions.

I want to think that somewhere in this world of technological convenience, the software of the heart will ...

There were no fewer days on the calendar between this recent Thanksgiving and Christmas than there were the ...

Many years ago we lived in a farmhouse, which sat at the base of 200 acres of sloping ...

Small creatures gather, store, and burrow, birds launch shorter flights from twig to bending twig. The urgency of ...