There is so much happening as the season starts winding down! Pollinators of all kinds are buzzing around their support plants in the Sideyard – check out our Facebook and Instagram posts for some of our favorite visitors. Pick up a few plants to support your own neighborhood pollinator networks. The fall veggie crops are becoming available. We’re sowing them here at the store since there’s no way to buy them in. This means that the veggies become available as the weather and our time...

The weather has been its classic up and down self. We’ve had real heat and humidity, then bright and cool weather down from Canada – along with some smoke -and then rinse and repeat – a classic New England summer. Unfortunately, we’re still in drought and that’s putting a real strain on a lot of trees -especially the very young and the very old trees. Any woody plants that are in-ground less than 5 years need an eye on them now and again to make sure that drought stress is not weakening...

Everyone seems to be in the garden, and that’s a GREAT place to be!