Spruce tips can also be used as seasoning for savory dishes. Their unique flavor profile goes well with roasted vegetables or grilled tofu. By adding them towards the end of cooking, you can retain ...

Despite the prolonged miserable weather during the so-called “spring”, the deciduous trees leafed out nicely, birds sing, and woodland flowers begin to bloom. On my home pond I’ve seen several broods ...

You may have heard that pruning spruce trees in the landscape is an important way of maintaining their health, size, shape, and vigor. But this is more applicable to deciduous trees than evergreens.

Bundles of spruce tips — that winter perennial — are now plentiful at garden centers and supermarkets. Many of us plunge the evergreen branches into planters, then stick in a few red dogwood twigs, ...

At this point in the doldrums of winter, you might be hungering for a salad. There are several winter salads you might choose from, but one you probably already have in your taste memory is a Waldorf ...

One of the more unusual spirits for sale anywhere is made by an innovative distillery in Tamworth, N.H. Tamworth Distilling was founded by Steven Grasse, a marketer who, in 1999, came up with the ...

We were pushing through head-high willows along a brushy caribou trail, five days into our week-long trek across Alaska's Noatak valley, when my hiking partner, Brad Meiklejohn, startled me with a ...