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Apple picking is one of those fall activities that never grow old. Senior food editor Amy Traverso shares her list of the best apple orchards in New England.

An apple orchard with a view takes this favorite fall activity to the next level. Here are nine scenic New England apple orchards with views as good as their fruit.

Come mid-July, greenhead flies descend upon the beaches of New England. Learn more about these fierce, hungry, bloodsucking flies.

Filling your yard with flowers that attract bees is just one small way you can aid their survival while also supporting the environment.

Making your own wood pallet garden is a quick and easy way to create a healthy and organized garden for flowers and vegetables alike!

This refreshing gin cocktail was inspired by a Weekends with Yankee visit to Tamworth Distilling at the southern edge of the White Mountains. Fragrant with aromas of ginger, lime, and rose, it’s a terrific way to celebrate blossom season. 

Sixty years ago, Olga Huckins of Duxbury, Massachusetts, sent a letter to a friend describing the state’s aerial spraying of DDT on her property. Furious and frightened by the dead songbirds she’d seen afterward, Huckins thought her friend could help raise the alarm about this “spraying of poisons from the air.” The friend was writer […]

More than 50 years ago, Beatrice Trum Hunter published the first natural foods cookbook in America. Now approaching 100, she’s still fighting to help people eat better and live without toxic chemicals.

This Connecticut foliage drive takes a meandering jaunt through northwestern Connecticut’s scenic beauty and nature’s bounty.

This Connecticut foliage drive takes a meandering jaunt through northwestern Connecticut’s scenic beauty and nature’s bounty.

Rose envy may be a thing of the past with these winter-hardy varieties. Not far from Mark Twain’s home in Hartford, Connecticut, is a garden that defies all weather. Planted in 1904, just six years before the humorist died, Elizabeth Park is the oldest public rose garden in the country, a spectacle of color and […]

Are daylily buds edible? How do you cook them? — F.P., Berlin, NH The flower buds, flowers, leaves, and even roots of the daylily (Hemerocallis) are universally considered edible. But with any new food, it’s always prudent to try a small amount first in case your system reacts differently. Some people, for example, may have […]