by oncapemagazine | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025
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 denizens of the night. In “Aesop’s Fables,” a famous collection of moral tales that dates back more than...
by oncapemagazine | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025
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 cousin, the pitchfork. When turning beds early in the season or at the parched height of summer, the...
by oncapemagazine | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025
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 providing generous incentives for homeowners to convert to heat pumps. Offered through Mass Save, the...
by oncapemagazine | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025
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 golf, but this was the real thing, and I was quickly hooked. At the age of 13, on an uncommonly warm...
by oncapemagazine | Mar 21, 2025 | March 2025
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 there and put shovel to earth. The list of tasks in our garden stretches on into the indeterminate...
