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Like almost 40 percent of the U.S. population, columnist Thomas Christopher writes that he experiences a certain degree of depression when exposure to sunlight drops to its nadir in midwinter.

MONTPELIER, Vt. — Rootstock Publishing has announced the Tuesday, Feb. 20, release of “Notes from the Porch: Tiny True Stories to Make You Feel Better about the World,” by international

Bringing your daily links to the NFL’s New York Jets

Bringing your daily links to the NFL’s New York Jets

The failure of conventional gardening guides is why I was intrigued by a paper, “Calendar Plants of Southern Vanuatu,” published in the journal Economic Botany last May. In this, a

Personally, I do not think the changes made by the USDA in the present map go far enough, that they don’t accurately reflect the accelerating speed with which the climate

If you want your winterberries to bear fruit, you must plant both male and female specimens. Here are a few plant species that work well together ...

In the fall of 2021, the city of Cambridge, Massachusetts, planted the first Miyawaki Forest in the United States. That made news in the American ecological restoration community, even though

Police briefs from Charles, St. Marys and Calvert counties

To put things in perspective, I want to emphasize that many food crops contain toxins to some degree. This is because plants conduct a never-ending war with plant-eating insects, a