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… just as well have smelled the grapes first if it wasn’t for the diesel smoke. A rich autumn scent-scape includes … from encroaching woods restrained behind an old stone wall. Both bears and foxes have been frequent visitors to my farm … and natural selection have hard-wired them to survive best. People occasionally make poor choices in response. We …

… and damselflies in New Hampshire? Last week, I joined Forest Society staffer Carrie Deegan and her husband Andy … a three-part series  offered this summer. Carrie and Andy both volunteered for the New Hampshire Dragonfly Survey, a …

… New Jersey . That “Christmas tree smell” represented a foreign land – a faraway, snowy realm of pointy, fragrant … fragrant fallen needles beneath that manicured pre-cut forest. In the glow of hanging incandescent bulbs, we … was forever broken. The tradition I’d created couldn’t overcome the insult of a sterile, fire-resistant tree of plastic …

… 10 … When city dwellers come for a visit to my modest tree farm in Middleton, they … at eight o’clock when the sun sets at four. On the opposite side of the calendar, we continue projects until nine …

… 54 … The New Hampshire Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources approved House … existing Agricultural Land Preservation (ALP) Program. The Forest Society supports this bill. ( Read our testimony here ) RSA 432, the enabling statute for the Agricultural Land Preservation (ALP) program, gives …

… 4 … After shelling-out $50 or even $100 bucks for a fresh, locally raised Christmas tree, ever thought … the area lies in a late frost pocket where balsam firs grow best. Fraser fir likes south-facing drier soils and do not … but warns you need to watch out for developing hornet nests both in the ground and in the trees. Good advice. Next comes …

… lambing seasons without a bad experience? We were overdue for heartache. While the local coyotes we’d seen all winter … the lambs, our veterinarian prescribed penicillin shots for both ewes. We couldn’t feed them grain for the next month, …

… experience as I age is ever-changing. My first-ever column for The NH Sunday News five years ago featured Mt. … blooming on Mt. Washington on a quiet day while in good company. The snow-streaked glacial cirques of Huntington and …   or through the Forest Society Web site:   forestsociety.org . …