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A day to commune with nature: Western Mass Herbal Symposium will be held May 11 in Montague
04-22-2024 2:46 PM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

This week’s feature is my 100th Home & Garden column for the Recorder, and I’m pleased to celebrate by sharing the plans of two local women who are organizing a remarkable event for anyone interested in learning about herbal remedies and natural...


The family that builds together: Bernardston’s Van Natta family are DIY superstars
04-08-2024 12:59 PM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

The Van Natta family home on Parmenter Road was the second house built in Bernardston, and walking through their 1747 residence imparts a feeling of time travel, given centuries-old aspects as well as evidence of dozens of changes over many decades....


Sowing the seeds of recovery: Greenfield-based Recover Project supports sobriety through community gardening program, Garden Path
03-25-2024 3:00 PM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

The benefits of gardening are widely known, but there’s one aspect readers may not have considered: gardening can offer a path to sobriety, especially when undertaken with friends. Some members of the Greenfield-based Recover Project are spending time...


Cultivating curiosity in the great outdoors: Grower of native plants creates curriculum for school children
03-18-2024 3:57 PM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

We celebrate today’s Spring Equinox with Colrain resident Jocelyn Demuth, who designs curricula to encourage Massachusetts children to improve environmental health.Through her “Five hundred Yard Field Trip” website, Demuth provides teachers with free...


My Turn: Living with the knowledge that none of us has clean hands
03-11-2024 5:43 PM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

I’ve received many blessings from my mother’s native Canada, as well as from the U.S., my father’s place of origin. It would be impossible to tally the resources I’ve enjoyed: cultural, linguistic, geographical, educational, economic, medical, and...


Crafted at home for the home: Josh Hannon creates wooden household goods that are both functional and beautiful
03-04-2024 3:25 PM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Western Massachusetts is home to some of the world’s finest artisans and craft fairs. We can admire gorgeous objects made of wood, glass, wool, clay, flax, stone, wax, and other materials, and this happy circumstance allows us to shop locally....


Tapping into sweetness together: Severance’s Maple Products chosen for Maple Month kick-off
02-26-2024 3:22 PM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Maple sap processing season is short, yet Northfield’s Milt Severance thinks about syrup all year. His sweet vocation will be celebrated this Friday, March 1, when his sugarhouse is singled out to host the Ceremonial Tapping that kicks off Maple...


The remedy is in your own backyard: Conway resident enhances health through herbal medicine
02-13-2024 10:53 AM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Lynn Golan’s Conway home and her Greenfield work space are both filled with materials and tools related to herbalism, yet her early life gave no hints that this would become her chosen path. While growing up near New York City, Golan did not grow a...


Thriving off the land and ingenuity: Billings Brook Farm homestead in Hawley hums with activity
02-06-2024 9:24 AM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

A busy homestead in Hawley is filled with multiple forms of creativity, including a weaving loom, a child’s easel, kitchen projects, and wood creations. Billings Brook Farm is home to colors, shapes, flavors and joy.Despite the fact that 6-month-old...


For the love of coffee: Woodnote Coffee Company prioritizes the land and the folks living on it
01-22-2024 4:18 PM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Co-owners Kaihla Laurent, 25, and Jaydon Diamond, 27, chose the image of a bird for their Woodnote Coffee Company logo; a woodnote is a natural musical sound or song, like that of a wild bird. The allusion seems fitting, as the young company recently...


Art inspired by nature’s relationships: Montague resident shares artworks and tidbits about our natural world
01-16-2024 10:46 AM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Contra dance enthusiasts and Montague May Day fans may recognize today’s guest star as Jeanne Weintraub, while people who met the Montague resident following her marriage to Chris Mason — whose sustainability and alternative energy work merits a...


They found their haven in Heath: Tractor collection began with anniversary gift
01-08-2024 11:01 AM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

On a spring day nearly 20 years ago, Jon and Jane Severance drove along River Road, which connects Sunderland with the Cheapside area near the Greenfield-Deerfield line. They passed a 1945 Model D John Deere tractor with a sign: “It runs.” Jon...


From the ground up, up, and up!
02-28-2022 5:23 PM

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Mia Kortebein wasn’t initially convinced when Carl Woodruff, her then-boyfriend, said he wanted to build a house.“I wasn’t certain I was ready to put down roots,” said Kortebein. “I told Carl, ‘Go for it. But that’s your dream, not mine. I can’t...

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