Avid gardener and blogger Michael Gordon, who lives in Peterborough, New Hampshire, shares his secrets on how to create the perfect backyard garden.
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Cooking Advice
How to Freeze Basil | Yankee Kitchen
Other than pesto, is there a way to store or preserve fresh basil without it turning brown, and without drying it? Is it true it can be frozen? If so, can you tell me how to freeze basil? My Italian grandfather was a passionate gardener, and my grandmother made enough pesto each summer to […]
Fish & Seafood
Swordfish Kabobs | Summer Grilling
The winter holiday season might be the most popular time of year for partying and eating, but there’s nothing like the fun and flavor of a summer barbecue, complete with in-season, garden-fresh dishes. These swordfish kabobs have become a staple in my house this summer. They’re perfect for a weeknight dinner, but also special enough […]
New England’s four-season love affair with ice cream is part of a historic legacy. Hundreds of years after the ancient Greeks and Romans enjoyed icy treats of snow-cooled wine and Chinese rulers began turning fermented milk and flour into a tasty chilled dessert (or so the legends go), America’s first president plunked down the equivalent […]
It’s five hours from Boston, Massachusetts, to Greenville, Maine, the last town en route to our destination, and it’s still another hour beyond there — on broken paved roads and dirt logging trails — to Little Lyford Pond Camps. These narrow byways are rutted and full of potholes. On the better sections, you might try […]
When Tropical Storm Irene struck Vermont, rain-swollen waterways washed away homes, bridges, and roads. Amid the destruction, Vermonters found hope in one another.
New Hampshire
A Special Place Called ‘Liberty Street’
Have you ever decided to do something that for most of your life you’d never have even dreamed of doing?
Willow, an American Milking Devon at Manysummers Farm in Cornish, New Hampshire, has yellow honeysuckle flowers scattered across her broad, burgundy colored back, a consequence of grazing the lush grass beneath the blossoming shrub. As she considers at the visitors who’ve entered her pasture, half -munched grass dangles from her muzzle. She blinks, then lets […]
When an oil train derailed just over the Maine border in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, it ignited a horrific inferno that took 47 lives and forever changed the community and its people.
Learn more about the steamboat Ticonderoga, a popular attraction at the Shelburne Museum in Shelburne, Vermont. Launched in 1906, the Ticonderoga (or the Ti, for those who knew it well) was a state-of-the-art side-wheel steamer that transported passengers, freight, and cars—even an elephant once—on Lake Champlain, cruising at 23 miles per hour; only trains could […]
Welcome to New England, home of culinary creativity … and more than a few oddities.
The outside living season is short in New England, so it’s important to make the most of it. Follow these five maintenance tips to extend the life of your patio and ensure it lasts for years to come. When building a flagstone patio on a sand bed, you can make it hold up better over […]