Rowan Jacobsen

How one Vermont town’s quirky civic experiment became a primer on community-building.

We began to worry about the loon in early December. What was it still doing here? For 18 years, we’d watched the loons come and go from the Vermont lake we live on, arriving in April as soon as the ice disappeared, raising a chick or two over the summer and fall, then heading for […]

In these wild woods, the springtime things that pass most quickly are the greatest teachers about time.

With Bluet wild blueberry wine, two Maine-bred winemakers have found inspiration for a fizzy new product – and just maybe a way to help save the state’s wild blueberry industry.

The cofounder of Bluet and featured “Weekends with Yankee” guest gives us a look into the future of blueberry wine.

The founder of Vermont’s Hill Farmstead ponders what comes after you’ve brewed the best beer in the world.

Olin College, a little engineering school in Needham, Massachusetts, is retooling higher education.

Eating what you gather on an island can change how you look at food—and even life itself.

Discovering Nordic-style thrills on the longest ice skating trail in the country at Lake Morey Resort in Vermont.

Discovering Nordic-style thrills on the longest ice skating trail in the country at Lake Morey Resort in Vermont.

A cadre of New England wheat growers and artisan bakers who proudly call themselves “grainiacs” are creating some of the best breads in the country.

If kelp Is the new kale, then Maine may be the new California.