The lawn ranger
Maine Sunday Telegram - 4/19/2009.By Tom Atwell – The four-step fertilizer and pesticide method of treating lawns just isn't for everyone anymore. Lawns have to get greener, on both sides of the fence. Regular readers of this column know that I am not a big fan of lawns. The grass at our house serves mostly as a path to perennial and shrub gardens. |
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Chicken farms are inhumane
Maine Sunday Telegram - 4/19/2009.Letter to editor by Robin Watts – The recent undercover investigation by Mercy for Animals at the Quality Egg of New England facility in Turner raises serious ethical questions about the way we treat animals raised for food. |
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Fear feeds genetically engineered crop debate
Bangor Daily News - 4/18/2009.By Sharon Kiley Mack – Augusta, Maine: Legislators on the Agriculture, Forestry and Conservation Committee learned Friday that 12 years after they first began hearing bills on genetically engineered crops, it wasn’t any easier. |
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It’s a team effort
Bangor Daily News - 4/18/2009. By Lynn Ascrizzi – As the two-wheeled cart rumbled behind them, Bonnie and Olivia trotted down Hogback Mountain Road in Montville, their long ears twitching. “You can tell what my mules are thinking by their ears. They know my voice. They’re in a good mood,” said Glenn Whitfield Martin II, known to family and friends as “G.W.” |
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