When I enter the sweet warmth of the Bangor Garden Show, everything feels right with the world. My bones loosen up. My coat flies off. I fly into the garden. And there it is: the midsummer night’s eve of green trees and moist black earth,… Read More
The Bangor Garden Show opens with Preview Night Thursday, April 11, continuing 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, April 12-13, and running 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday, April 14. General admission costs $8 per adult, $3 for students and is free to children under 5. Read More
Gabrieal Babin carefully turned the rich, dark soil. The sixth-grader’s classmates soon would follow her to plant beans just inside the fencing. The 12-year-old bent down to examine the earthworms and other bugs wriggling through the overturned earth. She fingered what appeared to be a small, round seed. Read More
SABATTUS – Use the term “car pool” in the Sabattus area and you might start people drooling. Rather than a group of people riding together to go to work, or taking children to school, dozens of Sabattus-area residents car-pool to Willow Pond Farm, where they pick up their… Read More
When you pass through a gate or an arch into a garden,” said Bianca St.Louis, “you walk into a different space. There is a shift in your mind and spirit.” As the owner, with her husband, Ernie Glabau, of Entwood Farm and Nursery in Burnham,… Read More
The Bangor Garden Show is open 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Sunday. Children’s Room hours are 9 a.m.-8 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Sunday. Premiere events at the 2001 show will be: Celebrity Roundtable-Book Signing at 8 p.m. Friday with… Read More
There’s a zoo in the garden and the delightful twist is that these “animals” don’t require regimental feedings morning and night. There’s no litter box to change, no manure to shovel, no fences to mend when they escape. Best of all, you won’t need to line up the… Read More