Living so close to the second-largest mall in New York State just makes me want to hide in the house on Black Friday.   It’s hard for m...

Did you know that there's a campaign underway to get us to stop raking up our leaves?  Rather, we're being encouraged to grind them ...

Second graders at the Valley Cottage Elementary School planted a "Seed to Salad" garden in their school courtyard last month.  D...

Nothing is more exciting than 1500 red worms wiggling in the dirt.  Just ask the kids in our afterschool gardening class.  Here's their ...

Once again, I missed Garden Bloggers Bloom Day.   Not because I had no blooms!   It’s just that the blooms are being upstaged by the trees, ...

“This is THE WORST time of the year for taking care of chickens!” Barbara Taylor and Mark Laino warned us at a Backyard Poultry Workshop the...

We really need to have our flowering cherry tree ( prunus serrulata ) pruned. It's taking over the front yard! Usually during the first ...