“A very important part of my work has to do with materials,” says David Lamb, New Hampshire's fifth Artist Laureate. Although many artists are inspired by the state's forested landscape, Lamb is one of the handful who make art from pieces of the landscape itself.
“There are many woods that I think are exemplary that we...
The New Hampshire Division of Parks and Recreation is celebrating 75 years of providing NH residents and visitors with opportunities to explore and enjoy the state's great variety of outdoor attractions. The year-long party came to a head on Wednesday, August 18th, with the grand opening of the Gilson Pond Campground in Monadnock State Park. It is...
Gifford Pinchot, an instrumental figure in modern American conservation, was born 145 years ago today. Although not exactly a household name, the Connecticut native and graduate of New Hampshire's own Phillips Exeter Academy was the first Chief Forester of the United States Forest Service, working with Theodore Roosevelt to create and expand the National Forest System.
Pinchot can...
The Wildcat Ridge Trail is steep; the kind of steep that makes you wonder if what you're doing is really more of a rock climb than a hike.
The effort to pull yourself up feels well worth it, however, once you get that first glimpse across Pinkham Notch and take in the whole of the Presidential Range. The...
Months after our conversation about how many songs were inspired by our respective states, my Californian friend still sends them to me. All I've been able to reply with is "Granite State of Mind".
This got me wondering: why haven't New Hampshire's mountains and forests, rivers and snow and granite, inspired any well-known art since... uhh......
On the Bee Thankful Farm in Deerfield, the heirloom tomatoes are protected from aphids and tomato horn worms by diatomaceous earth – an organically-approved powder of the finely-crushed shells of tiny organisms called diatoms – and by natural predators like ladybug larvae and wasps. Against fungus, they're sprayed with organic fungicides like potassium bicarbonate.
But every...
This morning, I moved a dozen trays of seedlings off of the heating pad where they spend the night, and out into the sun, before I weeded between a hundred or so rows of lettuce, rolled up the sides of the high tunnel (a greenhouse heated solely by sunlight) to keep the tomato and pepper plants from...
You don't know who grew the food you buy in a supermarket, or notice when they have a good or a bad season. Even at farmers' markets, most people don't know how well or how badly a crop did. But as a CSA member, you notice because it's your harvest.
A CSA (Community Sponsored Agriculture) is a farm where...
Apparently, New Hampshire doesn’t have a brand, and to some, this is a problem worth spending money to fix.
A recent story in the Boston Globe caught our attention here at Conservation New Hampshire.
You know. Maine has moose and lobster. Vermont has maple syrup, ice cream, and hippies. Here in New Hampshire…. well… we must have...
When the urge hits to get a little closer to nature and maybe take a hike, we can't always make it to a high mountain peak or deep into a forest. After all, there are bills to pay and hectic schedules to keep. What many of New Hampshire's urban and suburban residents may not know, however, is...
