Seems like we waited forever for great summer produce, and now it’s abundantly here -- too abundantly, if you’re a fruit-tree owner, overly enthusiastic vegetable gardener or incorrigible farmers ...

I’m a happy camper this time of year, and no, not because children are going back to school. Late summer is when Italian plums come to market. To find them piled high in wooden pint baskets at a local ...

Canning is having a moment. So is pickling, preserving, jam making and all around “putting up,” as they used to say -- and now do once more -- of the season’s harvest. And if that puts you in mind of ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

Clem Clay grew up the child of back-to-the land farmers in Vermont. In 2022, Clay and his wife, Tiffany, bought Small Ones Farm on Bay Road in Amherst, and Plum Brook Farm was born. “We essentially ...

Haley Mast is a freelance writer, fact-checker, and small organic farmer in the Columbia River Gorge. She enjoys gardening, reporting on environmental topics, and spending her time outside ...

There’s something about the cooler air of fall that brings on craving for a thick, juicy pork chop. When it comes to thickness, 1-inch is the sweet spot where you can cook the chop entirely through on ...