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...
The budget compromise that the Governor and legislature announced yesterday calls for taking another $1.5 million from the Land and Community Heritage Investment Program (LCHIP).
It is worth noting that this new $1.5 million grab is not without precedent. Since the dedicated fund was put into effect in 2008, LCHIP has granted about $3.1 million to preserve farms,...
Forest fires raging in Quebec and north winds sent plumes of smoke spreading over New Hampshire during Memorial Day weekend, making for very hazy, and for some, hazardous, days.
The New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services declared an air quality action day for most of New Hampshire on Monday, May 31st, as dense smoke...
There's no doubt that taking a hike with others, with the socializing, encouragement, and safety it provides, is usually the way to go. Sometimes, though, the solo trek beckons. The prospect of a mountain peak to yourself is too tempting. And when that peak turns out to be Mount Chocorua, the experience is utterly transcendent.
Mount Chocorua is...
