Through the Garden Gate
May, Hoo-ray! by Leslie Watkins Well, things are looking up! Warmer days and sunshine beckon us outside to poke about the garden, picking up litter and rearranging frost-heaved plants and stones. Spring peepers are welcoming warmer temperatures and the honeybees are flying. Time to get busy. Cold-hardy transplants can go into the vegetable garden in […]
It’s Only Natural
A Harsh Winter’s Effect on Local Wildlife By Lindsey Pizzica Rotolo I came home one bone-chilling February night to find a vole half-submerged in a marrowbone that I had given my dog earlier in the day. It was my first nonavian wildlife sighting since December. The average temperature had been less than 15 degrees for […]
Through the Garden Gate
April, Time to Get Started By Leslie Watkins As the snow melts and the ground thaws, you may start thinking about the pleasures of having a kitchen garden outside your door. Thoughts of sun-ripened tomatoes and freshly picked basil may be hard to imagine after this past winter, but those days will come. Vegetable gardening […]
Norfolk’s February Weather
Second Coldest Month on Record By Russell Russ This February will be remembered by millions of people for a long time. Cities from Pennsylvania to Maine to upstate New York have reported that this February was their coldest month on record. These records only go back a hundred years or so, but still it was […]
West Street Grill: An Award-Winning Farm-to-Table Restaurant in Litchfield
By Babs Perkins Nestled inconspicuously beneath a striped awning at the lower end of the Litchfield town green, the West Street Grill has long been regarded as one of the area’s best restaurants. By no means a “secret” spot (it has had numerous mentions in The New York Times, Vanity Fair, Litchfield County Times, The […]
It’s Only Natural, March 2015
Looking for Antlers in the Winter Woods By Wiley Wood Deer hunting season ends in November, but a new season starts in February: shed hunting. It doesn’t require a gun or a license from the state. The point is to find antlers in the woods that have been shed recently by white-tail bucks. I learned […]
Norfolk’s Weather, January 2015
Winter Is Here By Russell Russ January 2015 marks the start of the Norfolk station’s 84th year of continuous weather observations. This month, like January of last year, winter set in hard. Snow cover was scarce for the first week, but after that there was a continuous snow cover. The month ended with a snow […]
The Botelle Beat, March 2015
School Celebrates Its 100th Day By Matthew O’Connell Botelle School recently hosted a read-aloud, where an invited guest came to each classroom to read a children’s book. Many thanks to the Northwest Connecticut Chamber of Commerce and to all of our readers: in pre-K, Ben Nadeau; kindergarten, Holly Casey; first grade, Roselee Fanelli; second grade, […]
It’s Only Natural
Holding Ground: A New Approach to Land Conservation in a Changing Climate By Susannah Wood It’s easy to feel overwhelmed by the news on climate change: polar ice caps melting at alarming rates, sea level rising, the oceans both acidifying and warming, levels of C02 closing in on 400 ppm, 2014 was the hottest year […]
Norfolk’s December Weather and a Yearly Summary for 2014
Warm December closes out fairly average year By Russell Russ After late November’s big snow storm and cold temperatures, it seemed like winter was getting an early start here in Norfolk. Ted Childs, Norfolk’s original weatherman and founding father of the weather station, was known to say that a cold, snowy November often means that […]
