Mid- to late winter is an optimal time to prune most trees. Insects and diseases that attack tree-wound sites are not as active, and the time for the most rapid wound closure is about to begin in spring. While this general truth applies in most…
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Larry Johnson is a born systems thinker. While most of us might recognize a cog, Johnson not only sees the whole gearwheel, he knows what makes it turn. He understands how a set of factors and interactions contribute to a possible outcome. This is the…
One of the advantages of growing your own edibles is the opportunity to grow something unusual, unfamiliar or something you can’t easily purchase at the grocery store. Fava beans (Vicia faba) are that and more. Here are five features of favas that may have you…
Tea has been a part of America for as long as there has been an America. In fact, tea was so popular in the colonies that a tax on it led to one of the most iconic events of early American history: the Boston Tea…