The European green crab has quite the reputation. They’re smart ... in a dangerous way. They’re voracious, predatory and they eat their young!

This week C.L. speaks with Kathy Tracey, co-owner of Avant Gardens in Dartmouth, MA. She also takes listener calls.

This week part three of a mini-series on big picture local food issues—today with a focus on what we can change with a little hyper-local creativity.

They’re baaaaack! Here on the cusp of astronomical spring, those adorable little beach goers that certain people love to hate have arrived, or at least the first few scouts have. Piping Plovers have been seen in Orleans, Hyannis, and Sandwich, and more are likely out there on the bleak beaches of March

My father stands in the doorway of Henry David Thoreau’s cabin on Walden Pond. Of course, there is no cabin anymore, instead the cabin’s footprint is marked with narrow granite stones, giving the whole place an unintended funerary feeling.

On this episode of The Garden Lady, C.L. speaks with Gary Bowden about native plants and takes listener calls.

This week on the Local Food Report, weekend meals to help hungry kids.

My dog America, a full-on poodle, loves to stare into pines and oaks that quill out of a hillside down to the marsh. She’ll do this sitting on a comfy bed by a window, standing outside on a deck, or curled atop pine needles.

Today on The Garden Lady C.L. celebrates cut flowers and the people who grow them. She interviews Teresa Speight, author of Black Flora published by Hachette Book Group and Krishana Collins, owner of Tea Lane Farm on Martha's Vineyard. Plus she takes listeners' calls.