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BY CHRISTINE LYNCH Ask 10 people about their favorite restaurant and you will get a dozen different answers. Dining places tap each of us personally, so that someone’s...
Ingredients and culinary skills are not the only components that can bring out the flavor in a delicious meal. Wine can serve as the perfect complement to a meal,...
Spending time with loved ones increases the chances for fun days and nights. That is why nights out with friends are so popular. Such nights give people opportunities...
Parties bring friends and family together in the name of a good time. There are plenty of reasons to celebrate, including personal and professional milestones. Much...
Love is in the air come February, when plenty of sweethearts enjoy romantic evenings together. When the Valentine’s Day meal is through, it is prime time for something...
By DEB SCANLON In 1951, Charles and Margaret Spohr purchased a six-room house on two acres of overgrown wooded land looking out over Oyster Pond in Falmouth. “It was...
By BARBARA CLARK He’s an adolescent, as tall as his mom, and he enjoys many of the strengths and smarts of an adult. But when it comes to getting his next meal without...
By BARABARA CLARK The mystique of bats has played a major role throughout history, in our folklore traditions and in thousands of captivating stories about these...
Spading Fork The ideal tool for turning soil the spading fork’s tines easily bite into compacted soil and the tines are thicker, shorter and fewer in number than its...
By CHRISTOPHER KAZARIAN With the state of Massachusetts setting a goal of reducing carbon emissions by 50 percent by 2030, 75% by 2040 and net zero by 2050, it is...
By MICHAEL RAUSCH I can remember, clear as day, the first time I picked up a golf club and went to play on a real golf course. Like most kids I had played miniature...
By JOHN H. HOUGH Early spring in the garden. The winter has ground on with a freeze-thaw pattern that has mostly left the soil unworkable. We have been eager to get out...
Articles
How To Be Productive From Home – Tips On Designing A Virtual Workspace
By ABIGAIL NEHRING Many of Cape Cod’s seasonal homeowners have lingered long past fair weather this year. They are choosing the Cape as their domestic setting after American companies sent their employees home on lockdown, stationing themselves at their kitchen tables...
A New Emphasis On Outdoor Living Spaces
By CHRISTOPHER KAZARIAN ‘Having a space outside you can enjoy, just like you might enjoy the living room, can hugely enhance your experience with the house.’ – Jacob Avakian, owner of Vineyard Home Since last March, the relationship with the way we use our homes has...
Go Green When You Clean
By SHEILA HURST To add some green to your spring cleaning this year, you might want to consider going all natural by making your own detergents or trying a few plant-based cleaning products. Natural products are not only cost-effective, they’re better for the...
Natures Options – Mulch and Fertilizer for Your Garden
By DEBORAH G. SCANLON Pine needles, wood chips, leaves, and seaweed have been simple but valuable resources for Cape Cod gardeners for generations. Seaweed, in fact, has had many uses over the years. Our grandparents shared stories of it being used in the past as...
Pollinator Gardens
By CHRISTINE LYNCH By now we know that everything in Nature is interconnected. When one component is changed, it inevitably affects something else. At present, there are many detrimental factors depleting our butterflies and other pollinators such as bees, wasps,...
Roses – a long and complex history, but not all roses are difficult to cultivate
By BECCA LOWRY Roses! There is a very rich history behind them, as well as a wide variety of the flower. The history of the rose goes back many, many years, so let’s get started! The rose might just be one of the oldest flowers around. According to the United Kingdom...
Heads Up – Trellises And Vertical Gardening
By LAURA GROSS-HIGGINS Somehow at the end of winter, those perennial optimists called gardeners start contemplating what to grow in their gardens. The COVID pandemic, in fact, has reawakened many to the joys of digging in the dirt. My husband and I have long been...
Decorating with Plants – Have Fun Arranging Them Around Your Home
By CHRISTINE LYNCH As newlyweds, our first apartment was lovely but sparse. So, right after we moved in, my mom sent us two plants, one for each window—an asparagus fern that we named Andre and a big-leafed philodendron selloum, Oscar. Forty-three years and six moves...
Pasta Primavera
By GAIL BLAKELY You may be surprised to learn that pasta primavera did not originate in Italy. In this country, back in the 1970s, there were two distinct types of Italian pasta and sauce categories: southern and northern, one being red, the other white. That was...