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Don't 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 garden design and cookbooks everywhere. Ogden, who has written several other gardening-cookbook hybri...

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 4 p.m. Saturday, May 1, via Zoom. The lecture will be followed by a Q&A with participants.  Ogden w...

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 heirloom tomato called Lillian's Yellow disappeared from seed catalogs. Public seed libraries aim...