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Wednesday, April 14, 2021 - 6:30pm to 7:30pm Broccoli, radish, wheatgrass, and other microgreens seedlings grow in a sunny window in Crystal Robinson’s home in Hope. (Photo courtesy The Good Tern Co-op) The Good Tern Co-op will offer an online class on growing microgreens at home on Wednesday, April 14, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Sponsored by the Good Tern’s Education & Community Outreach Committee, the microgreens class will be presented by Crystal Robinson, who is certified in Agriscaping and...

Infrastructure, France, ‘Follies’: Your Wednesday Evening Briefing Here’s what you need to know at the end of the day. March 31, 2021 Image 1. $2 trillion for America’s bridges, roads, rail lines and utilities. President Biden unveiled his plan to rebuild the nation’s infrastructure and create jobs, in a proposal that would push federal investment in those areas to levels not seen since the 1960s. The plan would also address climate change with a shift to clean energy a...

Your Thursday Briefing April 1, 2021, 12:47 a.m. ET Image Women call out ‘rape culture’ in U.K. schools After weeks of harrowing anonymous accounts of sexual violence, sexism and misogyny at schools on a platform called Everyone’s Invited, local and national officials in Britain have begun investigations. On Wednesday, the government said an education body would conduct an immediate review of policies safeguarding students at both public and private schools. It comes amid a broader reckon...

Biden’s Afghanistan Dilemma The deadline for the U.S. to leave Afghanistan is a month away. Here’s where things stand. U.S. soldiers at a checkpoint in Afghanistan’s Wardak province.Credit...Thomas Watkins/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images Is America’s longest war finally coming to an end? That’s the question President Biden is confronting before a May 1 deadline to withdraw U.S. troops from Afghanistan, where they have been deployed since shortly after the Sept....

Buy your seed early, but don’t start too early. You don’t want to get too out-front of your realistic in-the-ground date.