by oncapemagazine | Jan 8, 2024 | August 2019
By DEBORAH G. SCANLON The environmental merits of composting food waste are significant: send less garbage to the dump; generate less of the potent greenhouse gas methane; and use less water and fertilizer in your garden. Add to that how much your garden crops will...
by oncapemagazine | Jan 5, 2024 | August 2019
By GAIL BLAKELY Pickles, relishes, and chutneys… oh my! Just like lions, tigers and bears in the Wizard of Oz, jars of fermented vegetables and fruit now are available in many large markets, and small farm stands as well. But you don’t have to leave your house in...
by oncapemagazine | Jan 5, 2024 | August 2019
By J. MARSHALL CRAIG None of this ever happened…but it could. We join the Hack family of Falmouth on July 4. Dad Jerome is out back with some Impossible burgers and dogs on the grill. Mom Kate is used to daughter Jill always forgetting to bring the mayo and...
by oncapemagazine | Nov 20, 2023 | August 2019
By BRANDEN PACHECO Standing at my potting bench with soiled hands I notice the dirt under my fingernails, mud running down my wrists in thick rivers. I gaze at the dozens of terrestrial and epiphytic plants, dulled shears, and roots spilt like guts on a butcher’s...
by oncapemagazine | Sep 25, 2023 | August 2019
By CHRIS KAZARIAN In New England, there’s a four-letter word that is the bane of many people’s existence—snow. Snow usually means one thing: winter has arrived and with it, frigid temperatures. How best to combat that one-two-three punch of snow, winter and low...
by oncapemagazine | Sep 22, 2023 | August 2019
By STEVEN WITHROW At the harbor, someone locks The gates to the boat slips. Tonight, as we walk the docks Bordering the half-lit port, We notice fewer ships Of leisure, ships of sport. With summer going, we Begin to count what’s left Of those towed off, or gone to...
