The signs of spring are easy to spot when you look, listen, and observe the world around you more closely. Elizabeth has worked since 2010 as a writer and consultant covering gardening, permaculture, ...

The beginning of February is the time to look for signs of spring: snowdrop and crocus bulbs pushing up through the soil, early flowering shrubs such as forsythia and witch hazel ready to burst into ...

We all need little signs of spring. When the wind chill dips and another bout of cold weather shows up in the forecast, we start wishing and dreaming of spring more than ever. For gardeners, crocuses ...

Six more weeks of winter for 2023. At least that’s the prediction based on a rodent in Pennsylvania. My 7-year-old daughter has recently taken to studying calendars. She can tell you when all of the ...

While the calendar indicates the first day of spring is this week, our yards, although slushy, are still full of snow and the birds don't seem ready to sing. Springtime in the Berkshires can present ...

The warm days we’ve had recently have given me a case of spring fever. And not just me. Everywhere, life is stirring. Tiny forsythia buds are supple and pliant. Daffodils are poking their green thumbs ...

In late January 2001, in the dead of winter, I wrote about signs of spring. I was grasping at straws, looking for any hints that the winter – a hard winter at that –would come to an end. We all do ...

Spring colds are cruel. Maybe they are allergic reactions, maybe they are viruses in training to be the next Covid. They come at night with the slow, steady slide of mucus from the back rooms of the ...