Making wine can be a lot like raising a child - there's a lot of nature and nurture at play.
I need more than one good reason to buy local, and it is not just about price. I am willing to pay a bit more, but I want to be treated with respect — and given a fair price.
Fleurs-de-lis grace a garden with the sum of its exotic parts.
Popular 'hardy' ground covers can have minds of their own.
Bell-shaped spring flowers thrive in our Eastern Long Island climate.
Some towns in America would die for a a music scene Most small urban midwest town thrive on nothing more than front porch music jams for recreation.What about Southold Town?
Lately, the recurring meme in the public consciousness revolves around “sustainability.” The question on a lot of people’s minds is, “what exactly does this mean?”
Wild Tulips on the North Fork Once Grew in Jefferson's Garden.
Ongoing GARDEN PRIDE photo contest lets you share your favorite North Fork festival, commercial or home "garden spot"
Why plastic? Start bringing your own bags to the grocery store.
Spring has truly 'sprung' on the North Fork in the last 24 hours.
Meadow Rue proves that blossoms aren't everything when it comes to wildflowers.
Shelter Islander remembers her friend, Lt. Joseph Theinert.
Auditors are known to overstep their boundaries.These tips will help you deal with the painful audit process — and hopefully eliminate a negative audit outcome.
In the warm, moist sunshine after days of rain, this wildflower is growing like a weed.
Rolling in Dough takes the brick oven to the streets.
Sometimes the most interesting stuff in our garden gets there on its own.
North Fork downpours give gardeners the leisure to rethink what stays and what goes.
North Fork photo and garden buffs are invited to share their love of green things growing on this gardening blog.
In the German tradition, a lovely local garden ground cover translate as, Happy Spring!
Change is the force that motivates us in all directions; up down backwards forwards.This installment addresses the dreaded fear of change.
Be careful what you wish for when it comes to elegant yet hardy plants.
I have made vague attempts at quitting before, but this is my first serious attempt. I'm really not a happy camper right now!
A fascinating community of North Fork wild life share our time in the garden
Local tax expert fills you in on IRS filing requirements for nonprofits — be sure to file by Monday.
The tighter the space the wider the vision in North Fork gardening.
A chardonnay grapevine's tiny flower buds shows itself on Sunday in Aquebogue.
In a maritime North Fork landscape, life in the garden ebbs and flows at its own pace.
After a long winter, the cat is itching to get outside. Who can blame him?
Time in a North Fork garden can transport us to a magical world of calm and peace.
There is a different kind of hope for the unemployed.
Here's what should grow and what should not grow on Shelter Island.
Memories of motherhood are bound up with things blooming and growing.
Simple gifts as we celebrate the weekend with a stroll through the spring garden.
The gardener is a peace-maker in a deceptively quiet world.
Winter to spring, younger to older, happy to sad ... change is the basic given in our lives. How pervasive is it and what does it mean to us?
The slow pace of healing the landscape at Ground Zero stands in stark contrast to life in the garden.
Southold Town's "Let's Get SMEM Smart" project and the US Senate Hearing on Social Media and Disasters. Watch the live video at 10am and follow this blog for more information.
The Greenport Boy Scout Troop #51 annual chicken dinner was awesome, but they had to roll me out the front door when it was all over.
The day's headlines may confuse and worry, but in the garden ponds of the North Fork, life is good.