Honey Fesitval at Warm Colors Apiary – September 15

  • Post published:09/13/2012
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Warm Colors Apiary will once again hold its annual "Honey Festival". Warm Colors has been hosting the Honey Festival for more than twelve years. The festival is a celebration of the Honeybee and our native pollinators. It is an opportunity to recognize the many contributions beekeepers, and their bees, make to agriculture and the health of our environment. Bonita and Dan Conlon open their eighty-acre apiary to the public to enjoy its beauty and explore its wildlife habitat.…

A Taste of the Franklin County Fair

  • Post published:09/12/2012
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It was raining when I arrived at the Franklin County Fair this past Saturday, but to some Fair goers it was just another attraction. The Roundhouse is full of flower, fruit and vegetable exhibits, as well as handcrafts: quilts, knitting, canning etcetera, etcetera, etcetera. Handwork is not dead in our part of the world. There are prizes for specimen flowers, arrangements and houseplants. There were fruit specimens and fruit arrangments. Fruits and vegetables preserved for the long New…

Morning Glories in the Rain

  • Post published:09/04/2012
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There is no sun this morning, but the morning glories in the mist and rain are very happy. They have been told it will rain for three days. They hope this doesn't mean three days of deluge.

Bruce Cannon’s Mountainside Garden

  • Post published:08/17/2012
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How long does it take for a vision to become flesh? Or in this case patios, stone walls, cool shady flower beds and a koi filled pond? For Bruce Cannon who found and bought a hilly wooded site on South Mountain in Northfield fifteen years ago, the vision was complete in only three or four years, but the building took a little longer. The house came first, set on the only bit of flat land on this steep…

Summer Night – Moon and Clouds

  • Post published:08/03/2012
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The clouds always provide us with a show at the End of the Road. At night the clouds play with the moon. For more skies check out Skywatch Friday.

Can Roses Kill?

  • Post published:06/30/2012
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Can roses, Knock Out Roses kill butterflies? That is the question asked by a reader in Colrain. Knock Outs are a fairly new hybrid family of roses bred to be disease and insect resistant. I had never heard that Knock-Outs had this potential for killing butterflies  so I set out to do some research. I was quickly reminded that butterflies are not much interested in roses of any sort because they supply nothing they need, not a site…

We have (belatedly) a winner!

  • Post published:05/24/2012
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Due to computer problems I have been out of e-contact for the past 24 hours but I now announce that Jennifer of Spiral Ridge Permaculture has won the copy of Handmade Garden Projects by Lorene Edwards Forkner. Congratulations, Jennifer.

The Bridge of Flowers on National Public Gardens Day

  • Post published:05/11/2012
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In 2004, when the Bridge of Flowers was nearing its 75th anniversary, Elaine Parmett, a member of the Bridge Committee, decided to find out just who and how the Bridge of Flowers began. “I was a historian so I did research and learned it was Antoinette Burnham in 1928 who complained about the way weeds had taken over the abandoned trolley bridge. She wondered why they couldn’t have a flower garden instead. Her husband, who worked for the…

Snowy Sunday Walk at the End of the Road

  • Post published:01/23/2012
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I woke at dawn and looked out the window to see three rabbits frolicking on the nowy lawn. Hardy rabbits. The temperature was 8 degrees. They were no where in sight when the sun was fully up. When the sun had gotten a little higher and the temperature had reached 16 degrees my husband and I decided to take a walk down the road. We passed our neighbor's house with this beautiful tree that I have always admired.…

My Ornamented Life – Part 2

  • Post published:12/15/2011
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There have been times when we lacked a full compliment of ornaments. There was the first Christmas in Greenfield, and there was the first Christmas in New York City in 1975. The apartment was not large and there were seven of us! Some things had to stay in storage, including most of the ornaments. Once again we sat around the table with sheets of octag and paint.  We were still dreaming of the day we would get to…