May 13, 2010 RSS feed / House & Home

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What’s Cooking

Lunch With Friends
By PHYLLIS GREENWAY
The Northfield News
DEAR FRIENDS were stopping by on their way to camp this Saturday. We see them in hockey season, and a bit during the summer, but the times are all too few. More...

Thinking About A Community Garden

The Northfield News

The colorful sign marking Duxbury Community Gardens reads “Growing Food and Community Together”, with plots neatly staked out, each with a composted hill of manure waiting to be worked in to transform the soil into a beautiful landscape More...

Home Again

Are Honey Bees a Keystone Species?
By CHRISTINE BARNES
The Northfield News

MULTIPLE SOURCES define a keystone species as one whose role in an ecosystem, given its biomass and/or population, has a greater than expected impact on the other organisms within the community. More...

The Gardening Guy

I’m Not Martha
By HENRY HOMEYER

IHAVE LOTS of coffee table books on garden design, each with glossy photos and a subliminal message: this is the way it’s supposed to be. But I am, at heart, a plant collector – and a bit rebellious. More...