Watch how a Lancaster County company packages garden seeds with antique machines [photos, video]
A look at how a 105-year-old Lancaster County company, packages many, many seeds for the season.
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Erin Negley
Writing about gardening, home renovations, food and craft beer in Pa. Dutch country.
This 1840 stone house has a walk-in fireplace, a mill next door and water running underneath [photos]
On the market: a historic home with water flowing below
What does ‘Rock Bottom’ look like? Test your knowledge of the 2024 colors of the year [quiz]
What does Still Searching look like?
How about Ghost Writer?
Can you pass the 2024 color of the year quiz?
10 winter beers made in Lancaster County to toast the holidays, including one that's almost non-alcoholic
Big beers and an (almost) n/a beer, all from Lancaster breweries, to toast the holidays.
Longwood Garden’s 1,000-flower chrysanthemum is back this fall and it's the biggest yet [photos, video]
Breaking plant news:
This chrysanthemum took 18 months to grow.
It has 1,366 (!) flowers.
Once it was ready, Longwood Gardens staff managed to move this 12-foot-wide mum into the spotlight.
Spotted lanternflies are still a pest but the smoky honey they help make could be good for you
Sweet news about spotted lanternflies:
A $375-meal in the rain? An inside look at Outstanding in the Field's stop in Lancaster [photos, video]
Outstanding in the Field’s latest local stop (outside The Lancaster Central Market) highlighted Lancaster County food, including ham salad and sweet corn, of course.
Inside the years-long restoration of C. Emlen Urban's Roslyn Mansion [photos]
When the iron gates of Roslyn Mansion opened Saturday night, the open house was a long time coming.
Designed by C. Emlen Urban, Roslyn was built in 1896 for Watt & Shand co-founder Peter T. Watt.
The Chateauesque mansion sat on the market for more than five years, waiting for the right buyer.
Once Dr. Gaspare Polizzi and Barbara O’Neill had the keys, they spent six years renovating the 9,320-square-foot home.
Saturday, they opened the big wooden door to dozens of people who paid $100 for the
Growing a fiber revolution in Pennsylvania starts with the smallest flax gardens [photos]
The future of flax starts in the smallest garden plots.
How to plant a first fall cover crop in your vegetable garden; plus lessons from a beginner
With cover crops, a vegetable garden doesn’t have to end with the first hard frost — no greenhouse required.
A look inside the Willow Street garden of 90-year-old twins and how to dry flowers for later [photos, video]
How America's oldest botanical garden is crafting sustainable wreaths from dried plants. Plus insight from 90-year-old Mueller twins who have dried flowers for decades.
Lancaster County pop-up miniature golf course opens this weekend for its final summer [photos, video]
It started with a DIY wooden windmill only about a foot tall. With bricks, rocks and scrap lumber, Austin Van Grouw, 7, set up a few more mini golf holes in his driveway.
That course has gone from pool noodle construction to 18 holes with pulleys, potatoes and (fake) poop.
The plant in this band is not an accessory; It’s the lead. Meet Nodding Onion [photos, video]
The allium plant in front of the drums make Nodding Onion a quartet. This plant’s not an accessory. It’s the lead. The band’s human musicians follow the frequencies of plants, playing improv ambient post-rock.
So far, Nodding Onion’s also jammed with witch hazel, beebalm and goldenrod.
This book takes you inside Amish gardens with advice (and recipes) from women who grow [photos]
"The gardens are a portrait of the women. It’s how they exercise independence. It’s how they find joy and they really express themselves."
Paint your own barn quilt: inside a sold-out no-sew class, plus where to find barn quilts in Lancaster County
Quilts, no sewing required.
These seniors help nature by nurturing mason bees, one of spring's first pollinators
A group of volunteers helps mason bees along every step of their lives, from egg to insect.
Is thrifting for fun harmful? She did the research; plus tips for thoughtful secondhand shopping
If you don't have to shop secondhand, should you?
This 103-year-old company made the seeds of a popular Jersey tomato yet another Lancaster County crop
As you plan your 2023 garden, here's a winding story about how the seeds of a hugely popular Jersey tomato became another Lancaster County crop.
Prince Harry's 'Spare' is this Lancaster company's latest top-secret publishing project
A Lancaster company, North Market Street Graphics, helped publish Prince Harry's book.
It's named after what? Fun facts about mistletoe, beyond the kisses
Did you know the best spot for a holiday kiss is under a parasitic plant named after poop?
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