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By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Last week, Recorder readers were treated to expert gardener Henry Homeyer’s tips for growing great garlic. Now I’ll explore the topic further, beginning with a vignette from 20 years ago.On a sunny October afternoon in 2003, I planted 50 garlic cloves...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Camille Tahar is constantly on the lookout for the tiny and beautiful — especially when outdoors — and that penchant for wee gorgeousness inspires her to transform diminutive materials into works of art for people to wear, display, and use in the...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

A recent Home & Garden column featured Supreme Microgreens, a burgeoning home business founded this year by two UMass Amherst students in their early 20s. It seems fitting, then, that today’s spotlight is on a Deerfield-based company founded 30 years...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

On a sunny Saturday in mid-September, two young men did brisk business selling small baggies of bright green produce at a Greenfield Farmers Market booth. Supreme Microgreens co-founder Alex Ayanian smiled brightly as an older gentleman approached....

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Editor’s note: This is the second installment of a two-part series about Charlemont resident Karen Hogness. This segment explores her collaborations with Dennis Avery, her husband and longtime business partner. Karen Hogness knew exactly how her...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series about Charlemont resident Karen Hogness, who mentors young children in outdoor settings. Part two will explore her collaborations with Dennis Avery, her husband and longtime business partner.Many...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

(Editor’s note: This is the second of two columns about Juanita Nelson’s centennial, which will be celebrated locally at events Aug. 17 through 20. Click here to read Part One.)In midlife, Juanita Nelson — a college-educated woman with an elegant...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

(Editor’s note: This is part one of a two-part story about the late Juanita Nelson, the longtime Deerfield resident whose 100th birth anniversary will be celebrated Aug. 17 through 20 near her former home. Recorder columnist Eveline MacDougall...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Rachel Haas and Matt Kaminsky began dating in 2014 while studying fiber arts and apple cultivation, respectively, at Hampshire College. The couple knew early on – given Haas’s affinity for sheep – that their specialties could interconnect in a...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Imagine a contest where participants choose from various challenges and must fully complete at least one to stay in the game. Whoever achieves the most goals is the winner, yet there’s a catch: since some options are long-term, the final outcome can’t...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

As Jerome Williams arranged the display at his tastefully appointed Greenfield Farmers Market booth, a customer arrived to laud his wares, having purchased a scented candle from Williams the previous week. The woman recounted how a culinary disaster...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Nikki Pullen captivates high school students’ interest in many ways – including by grossing them out. “When they’re grossed out, they’re engaged,” said Pullen, who teaches sciences at Pioneer Valley Regional School in Northfield. “Worms, slime, goo –...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Peter Wackernagel is a landscape designer who loves sharing his skills and putting plans into action. He especially enjoys working with youth as they build rain gardens and pollinator gardens, plant shade trees, and construct community gathering...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Fifty years ago, a newcomer to Franklin County undertook a monumental project. For those who admire family farms, self-sufficient lifestyles, and superb cinematic experiences, those elements are rolled into one thanks to longtime Bernardston resident...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Unless you search for it, you might miss a long, narrow building tucked into a Greenfield neighborhood. The structure holds significant history: for more than a century, specialty paper boxes were manufactured there, originally on coal-powered,...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Nalini Goordial’s life has taken her to many places and different kinds of work, yet one lifelong constant is a passion for food. Through Kitchen Wizardry, the Orange resident now offers resources for those wishing to make nutritious home cooking...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

John LaSalle’s astonishing productivity might lead one to wonder if a lifelong collaboration with flowers imbued him with superpowers. Yet at age 70, LaSalle shows no signs of slowing down.“I’m getting ready to retire, though,” he said during a tour...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

A decade before Bryant Stewart and Jeanie Schermesser began transforming a former church into their home and art studio, Stewart spotted the Erving building from Route 2. “I stopped in and met the owner, Clessen Field,” said Stewart, 73.Stewart had...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

Valentine’s Day brings the story of a Greenfield man who’s known by two names, as well as the many ways he expresses his creativity and feelings.A love story began in late adolescence for two locals. When Sara Garfinkel transferred to Mohawk Trail...

By EVELINE MACDOUGALL

This is the second of a two-part series. The Jan. 17 Home & Garden column, “Alternative approaches to death and dying,” concluded with an excerpt from Ursula Snow, a Shelburne Falls resident who died at age 13 in a 2019 accident. Some Recorder readers...