Roll back the years, to April 22, 1970. The first “Earth Day” was being celebrated around the country. Caroline Saltonstall and Buck Robinson, later to be husband and wife, were participating in different parts of the country in this first environmental “teach in.”  Thus begins the tale of these early innovators to help nudge the country, [...]

Peter and Leslie Van Berkum started their wholesale nursery in 1987 in a sandpit near their apartment by piping in water from a nearby river. After three years, they bought their current site in Deerfield, NH and today specialize in native perennials with a line called “New England Woodlanders,” which includes strictly propagated plants native [...]

Candia Vineyards is a small family winery with 600 vines, started in 1999. The property, at one point a dairy farm where Candia neighbors remember cows getting loose, has been farmed since the 1760s, and is perhaps the oldest farm property in the area. Although Candia Vineyards is a second career, owner Bob Dabrowski made [...]