by SARAH DONOVAN | Oct 17, 2023 | Home & Garden, In Print
The deafening whirring sound of the shaper drowned the entirety of the wood shop as Myrl Phelps carefully guided a thin piece of pine through the machine, giving a quick demonstration of how the blade is used to carve out a decorative molding. Phelps is an expert...
by ALLIE GINWALA | Jul 12, 2023 | Home & Garden, In Print, Life & Leisure
For Xochiquetzal Berry, life and work are centered around food. A food systems specialist and certified permaculture designer, she’s passionate about helping other food-loving folks develop a resilient, equitable, and vibrant regional food system. She’s also the...
by MICHAELA TOWFIGHI | May 8, 2023 | Home & Garden, In Print
When Townsend Carmody wanted to start riding horses at the age of five, her dad introduced her to the possibility that she could make a living out of doing so – by becoming a farmer. She’s grown up near farms her whole life. For her first job in high school she worked...
by Ray Duckler | Sep 16, 2022 | Home & Garden, In Print
In a Boscawen backyard that evokes images of Jack and the Beanstalk, farmer Steve Geddes is again growing a beast of a gourd that could top 2,500 pounds And you think kids grow up fast? Check out Steve Geddes’ baby, in his vast garden behind his house in Boscawen....
by By DAVID BROOKS | Jul 11, 2022 | Home & Garden, In Print
These high-end 1880s-style rail cars currently parked in Contoocook can take more than six months to build, but once done they evoke another era Playing with trains is a near-universal pleasure, but few of us have taken it as far as Chi Hofe. Behind the barn alongside...
by By David Brooks | Jun 17, 2022 | Home & Garden, In Print
When spring comes, gardeners itch to get plants into the soil. The same goes for foresters. Tree lovers are descending on the Concord area every year to pick up their annual allotment of bare-root seedlings from the State Forest Nursery, which began by providing baby...
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