vegetable garden

These harmless insects can be a blessing in a garden, but a nuisance in a home. Learn more about the ever-popular ladybug and see why they might be worthy of peaceful coexistence.

Your Yankee editor-approved guide to the best of the White Mountains, from restaurants and hotels to favorite activities and things to do. Add to your list for when you’re ready to travel again.

Savory and sweet flavors abound in this midday feast inspired by an award-winning baker and a food-forward Vermont flower farm.

Nothing warms up a winter meal like the cozy glow of firelight. From Maine to Connecticut, here are our favorite New England restaurants with fireplaces.

A Massachusetts green thumb is gardening to change the world, one acre at a time.

Growing up on America’s oldest family farm had, like the crop that defined it, a sweetness that passed all too soon into memory.

Years of trial and error gardening with flowers and shrubs, berries and vegetables, has taught this acclaimed gardening writer one thing: her land has a mind of its own.

After you’ve lost a beloved canine companion, you might be reluctant to adopt another–until you see what’s patiently there waiting for you.

There’s a garden overlooking the rolling hills of Litchfield County, Connecticut, that is literally scrumptious. At the estate called Highmeadows, rows of plantings spill over with succulent Fiero radicchio, Gigante degli Ortolani escarole, Diablo Brussels sprouts, and dozens of other vegetables planted to form a deep tapestry of color and texture. Purple basil flanks tomatoes, […]

Features /// Lobsterpalooza Food editor Amy Traverso undertakes an epic road trip to discover the best lobster roll in Maine (i.e., the world). Plus: Tips, tales, and trivia starring our favorite crustacean. /// Hometown For years Barbara Peacock has been photographing life in a small New England town that’s as ordinary as can be. What she captured, […]

Love to eat local during the holidays? Here are the plants you should grow next season for the optimum Thanksgiving harvest.

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, […]