By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff When you start to identify the plants growing wild around the yard, garden or alongside roads, you may begin to notice a worrying trend: many of those pretty flowers are...
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff We’re more than halfway through March, and already the local stores are flooded with spring-planted bulbs, seed packets and wildflower mixes by the pound. Even though winter showed up (for...
By Soncirey MitchellReader Staff The leaves are changing, days are shortening and nights are cooling down; autumn is right around the corner. Sandpoint’s first frost usually blankets the ground around Sept. 20, but, in...
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Dirt is dirt — or is it? Anyone who’s tried to garden in North Idaho knows that our soil varies from bad to worse in most areas. My yard...
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff As the stress of modern life increases and the cost of groceries continues to rise, more and more people are turning to the peace and self-sufficiency that home gardens...
By Ranel Hanson Reader Columnist “Green was the silence, wet was the light, the month of June trembled like a butterfly.” — Pablo Neruda This is...
By Ranel Hanson Reader Columnist “It is one of those April Days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold, when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade.” ...
By Soncirey Mitchell Reader Staff Don’t be fooled by the smattering of snow on March 24 — the first day of spring came and went, signaling the start of gardening season whether the weather...
By Susan Geise Reader Contributor It happened again, just a few minutes ago. As it often does. Perhaps as it was intended from the start. At first, I thought I was alone in the...
By Ranel Hanson Reader Columnist Hooray for August! Sun, a warm lake, berries and flowers everywhere — hooray! Little brown frogs, grasshoppers that look like butterflies when they fly, butterflies, bees of all kinds,...
