The Bath Garden Club will hold its annual plant sale on May 16, from 8 a.m. to noon, at City/Library Park, Washington Street, Bath. Perennials, herbs, native shrubs, geraniums, annuals and many…
Home and Garden
The Clamshell Quilters will host quilter and collector Mary Lou Newstead for a trunk show of her vintage quilts at our May 11 meeting at 5:30 p.m. at the Faith…
Boothbay Region Garden Club
The May 13 meeting of the Boothbay Region Garden Club will feature an explanation of Duo Design by Sandra Leonard, a member of the club.…
A Bird’s Tale
This past week, as we were having breakfast at the kitchen table, we noticed some “flitting and sitting” in the lilac tree just outside the window. We turned and saw a ruby-crowned kinglet that…
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens recently expanded one of the upper parking lots. In the process, a few large white pines…
Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District
Winter is over and spring is here — don’t be caught without your plants!
The Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District Spring Plant Sale, Backyard Conservation Sale & Garden…
Just a reminder that the Garden Club of Wiscasset will hold its annual plant sale on May 9 from 8:30 a.m. until noon indoors at the Municipal Building in Wiscasset, located on the corner of Routes…
Would you like to learn from an expert how to turn a so-so garden into a fertile growing place? You’ll have that opportunity on…
A Bird’s Tale
Despite the lingering snow and cold this year, migrant birds are returning. American woodcock have come back and started their mating dances. Yellow-bellied sapsuckers are back, too, and tending…
Jody Lewis has started a new business.
Lewis is the owner of Jody Lewis Caretaker & Property Maintenance in Boothbay Harbor.
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Come and join Susie Stephenson, primitive folk and fiber artist, at Spectrum Generations' Coastal Community Center, 521 Main Street, Suite 8, Damariscotta on Monday…
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and Soil and Water Conservation Districts (SWCD) of Knox-Lincoln, Waldo, and…
Coastal Enterprises, Inc. (CEI), a nonprofit community development organization, with the support of Maine State Housing Authority, will offer the…
There is no better way to do “think spring” than to place your order for the Knox-Lincoln Soil & Water Conservation District’s…
The first official day of spring is just two weeks away, but outside we are still in the throes of winter. A perfect time for a flower show. The annual Portland Flower Show theme for 2015 is “A…
The Morris Farm and Chewonki are pleased to present "Local Food, Local Hunger: A Community Forum on Food Security in Lincoln County" this Saturday, March 7. The event is scheduled…
A Bird’s Tale
We’ve been thinking lately about the idea of habitat.
Maybe because the recent onslaught of winter storms has left most of us confined to the small habitat inside and near our homes. Birders…
Walpole quiltmaker/fiber artist, Janet B. Elwin will be exhibiting a collection of new “little” wall size quilts at the Miles Hospital Campus from Feb. 14 through…
The Bath Garden Club will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 17 at noon at Grace Episcopal Church, 1100 Washington St., Bath…
From buying clubs to supermarkets accounts, the surge in demand for locally grown products invites new wholesaling opportunities for Maine farmers during a time when the prices of foods “from away…
Grow it in Maine
One Christmas, Erla was given a potted cyclamen.
On straight stems above a low mound of heart-shaped leaves, white flowers hovered like butterflies. To share this little vision, she placed…
From its beginning in 2007, when 10 founders used their homes for collateral to purchase 128 acres of pristine coastal land in Boothbay, the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens has…
Clamshell Quilters meets monthly to promote the “hobby” of quilting, teach and learn new techniques, share ideas and inspire. Our meetings are held typically the…
A Bird’s Tale
It’s one of the rarest birds in the world, with less than 250 breeding pairs in the entire population. It nests on only a few tiny islets just…
The Bath Garden Club will hold its monthly meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 20, at noon at Grace Episcopal Church, 1100 Washington Street, Bath. …
A Bird’s Tale
Now that Thanksgiving is behind us and the mayhem of Black Friday (if you buy into such schemes) has “cashiered” in the official gift-giving season, why not change it up a bit by thinking of “…
Patricia Moroz is an artist. She makes sculptures that delight people. Photos are taken of them, and people gush over them. Then they eat them.
…
Grow It In Maine
By now, new perennials and bulbs have been planted.
Unless you’re looking for spring surprises, you’ve marked where you set them.
Marked? How?
Many householders keep a map of…
A Bird’s Tale
We bought some fancy mixed bird seen recently that included lots of nuts, which were avidly sought after by both the squirrels and the blue jays. One…
Kathleen Jones and Diana Kerr share a love of art, design, textiles and travel.
Together the two artisans design and produce state-of-the-art home décor in the form of pillows, furniture and…
Restock your fridge with life! Lacto-Fermentation is an ancient food preservation technique that helps repair a stressed digestion and helps maintain a healthy one.
Packed with probiotics,…
A Bird’s Tale
Just yesterday we heard the whiney “shree” sounds of pine siskins in our neighborhood and were delighted to find a flock of about 40 descending into the bare branches of a maple a block away. This…
It's time for the annual fall birdseed sale held by the Mid-Coast Audubon chapter. Proceeds help the chapter with its nesting box program and help provide the many free educational programs held…
Grow it in Maine
“I have to go home and yell at my beans,” said Matthew.
“Huh? What beans?” I asked this Boy Scout.
“It’s my science project,” he continued, explaining his experiment.
That year,…
The FARMS Community Kitchen above Damariscotta’s Rising Tide Community Market is now open. This month schoolchildren, teenagers, parents and grandparents from all…
A Bird’s Tale
Maine is well known and loved for its Atlantic puffins and common loons, bald eagles and ospreys.
…
Grow it in Maine
In a former garden grew a small, secret grove of crocus. They were purple, white-striped; among them, snowdrops, looking like miniature Nubian goat heads, would have pushed through last year’s…
Grow it in Maine
Last year’s poinsettia has spent the summer outdoors.
If it was set in a semi-shaded garden bed, it must have flourished through last summer’s benign climate. Its lush foliage would have…
Boothbay Region Garden Club
Gardens and plants of the world will be the focus of the presentation by Rodney Eason at the Wednesday, Sept. 10 meeting of the Boothbay Region…
Photo
This hibuscus appeared in the gardens at the Harbour Towne Inn on Townsend Avenue a couple weeks ago.
It is close to the street and most people who spot it can’t resist getting a photo of it…
Grow it in Maine
The east-facing porch shelters many potted plants.
But look! Among them, I found a few without greenery but full of soil.
At the same time, I had some seeds left from spring sowing.…
So far this summer, Master Gardener Volunteers at the Morris Farm in Wiscasset have harvested and donated over 600 pounds of fresh, organically-grown produce.
Since early June, all of it has…
Grow it in Maine
Without bees and other insects, our food crops could vanish. As those creatures forage among flowers, they carry pollen from one plant to others, helping them to set seed for…
Grow it in Maine
The short, steep bank beside the road presents an ever-changing picture.
In spring, pink lady’s slipper orchids hide among the woods along its top. Later, leaves and white flowers, visited…
Part II: First 50 years
Beginning in 1952, the Boothbay Region Garden Club participated with other garden clubs in caring for the patients in the VA Hospital at Togus through gardening…
Grow it in Maine
“Whose family is yours?”
Centuries ago, that query spurred scholars to name and define every kind of plant or animal they knew. They…
Grow it in Maine
Ruth gave me a large, low planter box, almost as a challenge. Where should I set it? How should I fill it?
In…
Part I: First 50 years
For each decade of the Boothbay Region Garden Club’s existence, please imagine the Boothbay peninsula’s environment as it was then. Not as many trees, many more…
Wiscasset Garden Club
The Garden Club of Wiscasset continues its Sunday garden tours this week on June 29. The next location is at Marianmade Farm, 28 Sherman Lane, in…
Grow It In Maine
“What’s this?” asked Charlotte, holding a stiff stem topped by daisy-like flowers.
She had a piece of ragged Robin, easily identified by its deep rose…
