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A tip for making this smoothie: Be sure to add each ingredient in the order it is listed in the recipe - liquids on the bottom and frozen things on the top.

Food

There is a Season with Molly Parr: A tart and sweet cranberry smoothie

by Staff Report December 16, 2022

The “Root Slayer” is a V-shaped shovel with sharp serrated edges and a step that lets you throw your heft into the work. At around $60, it’s worth every penny.

Get Growing: Gifts your gardener will thank you for

by Mickey Rathbun For the GazetteDecember 9, 2022

Gaillardia spp., also known as blanket flower, are the featured plant for July in the 2023 UMass Garden Calendar. They are brightly colored flowers in the family Asteraceae (sunflower) that includes annuals, biennials, and perennials that are native to the Americas.

Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Perennial advice in the 2023 UMass Garden Calendar

by Staff Report November 18, 2022

The flexibility of a PVGrows Investment Fund bridge loan allowed Crimson & Clover farmer Nate Frigard to accept a Massachusetts Food Security Infrastructure Grant to insulate his barn for year-round use as a farm store, and to build a washing and packing building attached to the barn.

Food

Fork & Spade with Francie Lin: New ways to invest in the local food system

by Francie Lin For the GazetteOctober 27, 2022

The fall tartine, an open-faced sandwich of sourdough bread, fresh arugula pesto, slices of roasted beets, topped with pickled apples and finished with goat cheese.

Food

There is a season: Fall tartine with pickled apples

by Molly Parr For the GazetteOctober 14, 2022

Song Sparrow Farm occupies three-quarters of an acre and grows a large variety of vegetables and edible flowers, offering its produce through a small CSA, a farm stand, and at the Easthampton Sunday market, among other places.

Fork & Spade with Francie Lin: Grow Food Northampton Community Farm puts community first

by Francie Lin For the GazetteOctober 10, 2022

Snowdrops (Galanthus) are the usually the earliest bulbs to bloom. They push their way up through snow and frozen muck, assuaging our fears that spring will never come.

Get Growing: Paying attention to the little bulbs

by Mickey Rathbun For the GazetteOctober 7, 2022

Although ajuga is not a particularly showy plant, it’s a reliable workhorse in the garden.

Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: Lessons learned in a time of drought

by Mickey Rathbun For the GazetteSeptember 9, 2022

This Amanita mushroom, found next to the Norwottuck Rail Trail in Amherst, is most likely a fly agaric (Amanita muscaria), a species that is found across much of the northern hemisphere. A. muscaria is usually associated with birch or pine trees and is poisonous but not usually fatal. It has bright red forms and white ones, as well as the yellow version shown here.

Earth Matters: everything you wanted to know about fungi

by Joshua Rose For the GazetteAugust 19, 2022

Sugarloaf Gardens manager Dan Ziomek checks on a autumn blaze maple tree Thursday morning in Sunderland.

Get Growing with Mickey Rathbun: An expert plantsman takes the reins at Sugarloaf Gardens

by Mickey Rathbun For the GazetteAugust 11, 2022