The birth of an enchanted food forest Like a germinating seed, creation begins in the dark. Sometime late 2020, in the still darkness of our pandemic cocoon, just... News & Views 21 Jun 2023 | 01:25
These old 8-hole Doc Martens, as seen in Maxfield’s column Old Soles, have seen her through 30 years of life, and remind her in many ways of the cobbler in Monroe she found just as he was about to retire. The below was a reply to that column. ( Evie Maxfield ) Sal, the soul man TO THE EDITOR, I was working in Downtown Manhattan several years ago, and we had a visitor from Texas arrive. He was wearing... News & Views 03 Apr 2023 | 11:42
Educator Carl Heitmuller at Hudson Highlands Nature Museum demonstrating the proportional size of an owl’s eyes. ( Amy Prasky) What big eyes you have! At Hudson Highlands Nature Museum’s SuperbOwl Party, Educator Carl Heitmuller demonstrated that if humans had eyes proportionally... Home 20 Feb 2023 | 04:32
Cox made 22 paper masks and laid them out in Warwick’s Memorial Park. ( Everett Cox ) A Vietnam vet’s ghost story TO THE EDITOR,I made 22 paper masks to tell a ghost story. Memorial Day is in remembrance of our military war dead. There... News & Views 03 Apr 2023 | 11:44
From field to soup kitchens, van loads of tomatoes Dear Editor,Two weeks ago we kicked off our tomato harvest making our first deliveries to our friends at the Masbia Soup... News & Views 27 Sep 2022 | 12:56
Little Red cleaning up after the herons, then the turkey vultures, were done with a big fish. ( EV Mitchell) Little Red in a tough world Dear Editor,I’ve been meaning to tell you about Little Red, who is responsible for making the dog toys disappear and randomly... News & Views 07 Sep 2022 | 01:30
My yard, a drunkard’s path of buttercups I feel like one of those kids mothers speak about in hushed tones: “He flunked kindergarten!” I flunked No Mow May. At best,... News & Views 28 Jun 2022 | 10:57
Troy in front of the Lafayette Community Garden ( Shannon Rasmussen) ‘Bring back the community garden,’ says sixth grader Dear Editor, I am a student at Lafayette Township School. We have a pond with a soccer field, baseball field, a playground... News & Views 20 May 2022 | 11:41
In a single season, an empty lot transformed into a thriving garden. ( Chad Pilieri) Resilience starts at home Dear Editor,Grow Local Greenwood Lake is a fledgling nonprofit committed to developing a regenerative, resilient local food-based... News & Views 28 Mar 2022 | 01:05
Want to be a ‘shore angel’? Schooner Apollonia, a 64-foot cargo sailboat, hauled thousands of pounds of goods up and down the Hudson River last year.... News & Views 11 Mar 2022 | 03:42
Mike Levy with his grandsons in the ‘hunger garden’ they built together in the kids’ yard in Bedford, NY. Can ‘Hunger Gardens’ take off? To the editor: We have a terrible hunger problem in our area and all over the country. One in seven children in the U.S. lives... News & Views 08 Dec 2021 | 01:18
Keith’s Farm in Greenville, NY, experienced off-the-charts rainfall in September and October. ( Keith Stewart) Farming through off-the-charts weather Our farm in Orange County, NY is now comfortably situated in USDA Plant Hardiness Zone 6. This tells us, among other things,... News & Views 30 Nov 2021 | 11:01
The cover spoke to me I have been meaning to write to you — to say that I LOVED the last issue of Dirt so much. I was crazy with my class — and... News & Views 09 Sep 2021 | 11:32
Covid in our deep subconscious I was drawing with a four-year old recently. She kept making familiar variants of the same kinds of drawings: first a round... News & Views 11 Oct 2021 | 11:32
The cover feature of the summer issue sparked heated debate. Obesity is a deadly disease; it’s our responsibility to talk about it Dear Editor,I read the “fat shaming” comment and was disappointed that this was the response coming from someone who works... Home 08 Oct 2021 | 12:23
