A kitchen garden is a separate garden plot located close to the kitchen door for spring, summer and fall cooking convenience. The kitchen gardens found in England and France are most likely the source of inspiration for the American kitchen gardens that have been common fixtures throughout New England for centuries. Today, kitchen gardens are […]
Heading the Upper Valley of Vermont and New Hampshire? Here are our picks for the best things to do, places to stay, places to eat, and more!
The right garden attracts colorful visitors from far and wide. Learn how gardening and artistry go hand-in-hand for Massachusetts wildlife painter Barry Van Dusenand.
The wildly beautiful Maine Peninsulas invite ambling and stopping, so it’s so surprise that they’re also home to many wonderful places to eat, shop, and stay.
The wildly beautiful Maine Peninsulas invite ambling and stopping … And returning again and again.
Five years after the devastation of 2011’s Tropical Storm Irene, those who lived through it in Wilmington, Vermont, remember both what they lost and what they found.
Come for the cannonball, but stay for the stories. In Ridgefield, Connecticut, three centuries of stories are told at the Keeler Tavern, but it’s the cannonball that visitors usually want to see first. A gambrel-roofed building on Main Street, the Keeler Tavern celebrates 50 years as a living-history museum in 2016. “We’re known for the […]
The place where it all started: Wolfeboro, New Hampshire (population 6,269). This pretty lakeside town welcomes you to The Oldest Summer Resort in America.
Bill and Eileen Elliott found their way to self-sufficiency with more than a little help from their vegetable garden. Without precise directions, you’d never find Bill and Eileen Elliott’s house. But with some guidance, you’d find yourself standing before a rustic hand-hewn archway gate, and through that, a curving, colorful path lined with astilbe, geraniums, […]
Growing leafy greens in a bag of potting soil eliminates the need for tedious soil preparation such as tilling, fertilizing and weeding that larger traditional gardens require. Growing these greens in the thick plastic bag that the soil comes in is also an easy way for those with limited space or poor soil quality to […]
A Maine gardener discovers how to make rich, nutrient-filled humus the easy way. Fred Davis knows the value of good compost. For 24 years, he and his wife, Linda, have owned and operated a nursery, Hill Gardens of Maine, at their home in Palermo, about 15 miles northeast of Augusta. Early on in the venture, Davis […]
This 18th-century former stagecoach stop was also home to the very first indoor privy in the Berkshires town of Hancock, Massachusetts.
