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Vermont’s Ellen Ecker Ogden is a food and garden writer who co-founded The Cook’s Garden seed catalog in 1984, introducing home gardeners to European and American heirloom lettuces and salad

"I garden because I love to eat," Ellen Ecker Ogden wrote in her most recent book, The New Heirloom Garden: Designs, Recipes, and Heirloom Plants...

It's time to seize the summer, when the living spaces of Vermonters briefly expand to the great outdoors. No one blurs those lines more artfully...

From a honeycomb-shaped trellis to one made of copper pipes, these are the best DIY trellis ideas for your garden.

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Dont miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook.   MANCHESTER — Along with the many hours pulling weeds, mixing in compost and sweating under a warming sun, many gardeners insist there is a peacefulness to their pathos, a point where labor and Zen seem to merge. This feeling has seemingly been tapped into by Southern Vermont author Ellen Ecker Ogden, whose recent release, “The New Heirloom Garden” (2021, Rodale Books, soft cover, 253 pages, $24.99), is a worthy addition to ga...

Spencertown Academy Arts Center will present “Inherent Beauty,” an online photography exhibition, from Saturday, May 1, through Monday, May 31, at spencertownacademy.org. This invitational show features works by David Halliday, Ellen Lynch, Gerald Seligman, and Neal Warshaw. The photographs will be for sale with a portion of sales benefiting the Academy. The Hidden Gardens Virtual Lecture Series continues with a talk by Ellen Ecker Ogden titled “The Art of Growing Food” at ...

For centuries, Hamilton told Seven Days, people saved their own seed because they had little choice. That changed after what she called "the post-World War II era of commercializing seed and commodifying food." Although commercial hybrid seed production has reduced the workload for gardeners and farmers and created popular new varieties, it has decreased seed diversity and made people reliant on big seed companies. That cost was brought home to Hamilton when a favorite heirl...