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Emerson Garden Tour Nominations

The Emerson Garden Tour showcases vegetable gardens and fall harvest plantings. It takes place on August 19th and 20th. Dates have been changed from June to August to provide more time for growing. Nominations and suggestions for gardens are now being accepted! Please call the Emerson office to suggest a garden or help with the tour [...]

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Recycling and Sustainability 101

I am often asked what to do about various items, if they are recyclable? Well yes and no. The market is constantly changing, but currently the following items are recyclable because there are end markets for them:

Plastic: 1-7, clean and free of food contamination. You can crush the air out of the milk /juice [...]

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What Exactly is Sustainable Growth?

Bill Stoddart

Everything in the world may be endured except continual prosperity.  ~Goethe

There is a bit of a paradox in thinking endless growth can be sustainable. After all, the idea of something growing forever suggests it will inevitably become all-encompassing and all-consuming. Low-budget horror flicks come to mind, like Independence Day 2026: The Hibiscus [...]

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Before There Was “Green” There Was Blue

Carolyn Hopper

What’s that swimming in your soup? Shark fins? Is the next course orange roughy? Bluefin tuna sushi? And how, one might ask, is the orange roughy and the shark’s fin the ocean and the ocean us?
It’s all about hydrogen bonds, or chains, and food chains and how they are as inextricably [...]

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  • Vernon Hall has had no formal art training and didn’t begin to paint seriously until just before his 1990 retirement. He was raised in Wellely, Mass. and entered the University of New Hampshire in 1942. In early 1943 he was called into active service in World War II and spent the next 3 years in the Corps of Engineers, the last 2 years in the China-Burma-India Theater of Operations, laying out airfields - from large B-29 fields near Calcutta to small jungle airstrips for the evacuation of British wounded from the jungles of central Burma. For the 40 odd years after
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