The first 12 days of May are the birding equivalent of the Twelve Days of Christmas. May delivers colorfully plumaged avian gifts — daily. Instead of a pear tree offering a partridge, two…

ROCKPORT — Mother’s Day is the single busiest day for Hoboken Gardens, busier even than Valentine’s Day.

“Everybody has a mother,” said …

CAMDEN — The long, cold, wet winter has been followed by a long, cold, wet spring, but most of the honeybees at the Edwards Apiary in Camden successfully overwintered, and have been busy…

Garden Institute President Jeanne Hollingsworth will present a free program on growing and planting seedlings Wednesday, May 7, at 7 p.m. at the Lincolnville…

ROCKLAND — Someone now possesses a flower box freshly planted full of pansies, which were reportedly stolen this week off the front of the Winding Way Bed & Breakfast and Art Gallery in…

CAMDEN — Entrepreneur Cyndi Prince lives in a modest home in Camden with her husband and their young son. Downstairs it’s a typical family home full of warmth and love. Upstairs things are a…

CAMDEN — The Maine Department of Environmental Protection spent the last week digging trenches around a home on Ames Terrace and removing contaminated dirt after a seal broke on an outdoor oil…

A nest is "...a house built by and for the body, taking its form from the inside, like a shell, in an intimacy that works physically. The form of the nest is commanded by the inside. 'On the…

What are the driving forces behind the ways our homes work and look? The intertwining DNA of Maine homes is a conversation between technology and culture. Architect and historian Christopher Glass…

BELFAST — The Belfast Area Chamber of Commerce’s upcoming holiday business after hours is not only a place to mix and mingle with local business owners but it will be an opportunity to bid on a…

ROCKPORT — As the holiday season begins to ramp up, and packages are being shipped to and fro, Mid-coast Solid Waste Corp. is seeking help keeping the transfer station on Union Street in Rockport…

ROCKLAND—It’s what you call a “fixer upper.”

Those who attended last Saturday night’s third annual bash by The Collective were delighted and amazed to find a small-scale replica of Dorothy…

ROCKLAND — The Talbot Home’s annual Silver Tea is just around the corner, a tradition for more than 60 years, and this year’s tea fundraiser is being held to help with capital improvements to the…

ROCKLAND — Black Bros. Builders, of Rockland, are the only net zero builders in Maine. Net zero translates into energy efficiency. What does that mean? Black…

CAMDEN — It's been four weeks since one of our honeybee hives swarmed into an adjacent cedar tree, and on Sept. 14 we opened the hives and discovered we could harvest the first few pounds of honey…

GOTT ISLAND — Remember the classic children’s book, The Giving Tree …

Monarch butterflies are one of the delights of a Maine summer. From late July into early fall, we are graced with their companionship in the garden and we are allowed a glimpse into the miracle…

ROCKLAND — The stretch of Route 1 between Rockland and Rockport, now a mix of old homes and big box stores, asphalt, traffic and sidewalks can be a better place to live, shop and travel along —…

CAMDEN — It's not a big secret this year that honeybees and beekeepers are having a tough time. Many beekeepers this spring found their overwintered hives dead and inconsistent warm, dry weather…

CAMDEN — A rooster that insisted on strutting his stuff for several mornings close to downtown Camden has been evicted, although the friends he made while at the head of the harbor are now…

ROCKPORT - Every summer, Merryspring Nature Center throws a…

We’ve just endured the wettest June on record only to be faced with unusually hot and humid weather, more cold wet weather, and another heat wave.  Snails, slugs, mosquitoes, fungi and weeds are…

Monsoon winds with pouring rain, endless cold drizzle alternating with blasting heat have made this a very challenging year for gardeners. I do the garden at the office of McKittrick and Warren on…

CAMDEN -- It is rare for Camden's planning and codes office to deposit a building permit check made out for more than $10,000; mostly, such revenue ranges from $10 to occasional highs of $1,200 to…

Rain or shine, Waldo County General Hopsital's 23rd annual Garden Walk kicks off Friday, July 12, running from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. This year's walk includes six gardens in Belfast and Northport,…

CAMDEN — They are all in place, those familiar blooms of summer in those familiar places. From the baskets of geraniums hanging on the downtown lampposts and the railing flower boxes on the…

ROCKLAND — It took Peter Lammert more time to unload and set up his bee swarm equipment on Main Street in downtown Rockland than it took to get the honeybees out of the tree they were clustered on…

Summer is the busiest time of year for professional house painters, something Peter Berke, owner of North Atlantic Painting Company, knows too well. He just partnered with Jeff Neuman…

CAMDEN — After the majority of Camden's majestic elm trees died from Dutch elm disease in the 1970s, the town of Camden and the Camden Garden Club joined forces and initiated a planting program to…

CAMDEN — It's official. Tuesday morning, May 28, we became the proud keepers of 22,000 honeybees, give or take a few thousand.

We loaded up the truck with two of our deep hive boxes, with…

"We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us" - Winston Churchill

Design Notes is a series of conversations about how our built environment affects…

THOMASTON — April 16 was the last class for the nearly 50 students in the 2013 Bee School, and in the coming weeks, new colonies of honeybees will be arriving for many of them.

Six weeks of…

CAMDEN — A Midcoast landmark, the Norumbega Inn at 63 High Street in Camden, welcomed new owners Sue Walser and Philip Crispo, who now have the daunting task of getting the building in working…

In spring, a young man’s fancy may turn to love, but a woman’s fancy turns to... clothes. As in: “I hate every single thing in my closet. If I have to put on one more sweater or pair of long johns…

THOMASTON — To the members of the Knox-Lincoln Beekeepers Club, springtime means the appearance of the honeybees that have wintered over in their hives.

But, it also means bringing together…

The first day of Spring has come and gone, and Maine gardens are beautiful, every branch and twig loaded and fluffy with snow.  Some places it looks a little like the hydrangea blossoms of…

CAMDEN — Window frost can be beautiful, and amazing. Especially when the morning sun casts gold or pink through it, and when it's viewed close up.

Frost is a light deposit of small, thin…

THOMASTON —  “There’s really no way you can place a dollar amount on sentiment.” So began my conversation with John Bottero, vice president of Thomaston Place Auction Galleries, on Route 1…

ROCKPORT — The Center for Furniture Craftsmanship, in conjunction with the Farnsworth Art Museum, announced the winners of its “Designing Benches” competition Friday, Jan. 25, at the Center’s…

Just because it's wicked cold outside and thoughts of the growing and harvesting season seem out of reach, doesn't mean access to locally grown and organic fruits, vegetables and legumes are also…

If you're just tuning in, the free little Half House that sits at 27 Pascal Ave. in Rockport we reported on last week (…

This all started with a local Facebook yard sale post by local resident, Douglas Day.

If you’re like me, and you’re probably pretty thankful you’re not, you happen to glance up at the calendar and notice its Dec. 24. The clock reveals it's 5 p.m. and you arrive at the stark…

The gardening season in Maine is over for most of us, so what’s a gardener to do?  Here are a few initial suggestions, with more to come.

The Camden Fire Department wishes everyone a safe and happy holiday season, as lights and decorations are set up for another season of festivities. This has been a long standing tradition for many…

ROCKPORT — The Camden-Rockport Historical Society, next to Hannaford's on Route 1 in Rockport hosted a Victorian Christmas at the Conway Homestead and Cramer Museum on Dec. 1.  Much of what…

MATINICUS — Our first wood fire this year in the kitchen stove was weeks later than usual. We put it off until a few days ago, everybody busy and managing to get through each day without making…

BELFAST — Lupine Cottage at 7 Old Searsport Avenue (Route 1) in Belfast is…

LINCOLNVILLE – Ladleah Dunn is a sailor and a damn good cook. More importantly, she aims not to take the foodie industry in Maine so seriously or make it…