by oncapemagazine | Mar 22, 2024 | March 2024
By JOHN H. HOUGH Farming Falmouth fuses ancient agricultural practices with modern day food security needs using an assembly of volunteers, eager to educate their neighbors on how to farm well even without farmland. Some volunteers with Farming Falmouth today have a...
by oncapemagazine | Mar 22, 2024 | March 2024
By JOHN H. HOUGH The warmer weather has the garden sopping wet. The water table in our vegetable patch lurks close to the surface and in the wet winter and spring months. The mud season in New England differs from place to place; the sandy soil of the Cape provides...
by oncapemagazine | Mar 22, 2024 | March 2024
By CHRISTINE LYNCH It was 8:30 on a weekday morning. Snow had fallen—maybe two inches—and flurries continued to float down as two healthy-looking coyotes came over the rise behind our house. Standing statue-still briefly, they began frolicking and shooshing up snow...
by oncapemagazine | Mar 22, 2024 | March 2024
By LAURA GROSS-HIGGINS As On Cape readers may have noticed, my mantra is that it is all about the recipe. You might ask why. I was a fussy eater as a child. I grew up liking the usual vegetables—peas, corn, and green beans—and not liking cabbage, Brussels sprouts,...
by oncapemagazine | Feb 2, 2024 | July 2020
By CHRISTINE LYNCH Growing up on the Cape, our young daughters were fascinated by sea glass. They would drop them into their pails or use them to top sandcastle turrets that sparkled like gems in the sun. When we went to places such as Crane Beach in Ipswich or by...
