Mary Williams Engisch

Paw paw trees grow in our region and produce lots of sweet fruits in late summer and early fall. The fruit's insides are soft and custard-like, and the taste can range from banana to mango to vanilla.

If your daffodils and other flowering bulbs didn't grow well this past spring, try planting flowering onions. They are beautiful and fairly trouble-free. Purchase a few when you're getting other spring flowering bulbs ready to plant later this month.

With major hurricanes, floods and wildfires dominating news cycles, seemingly year-round, scientists and experts widely agree we are currently facing the impacts of climate change.

Sometimes blooming up until — and even after — the first frost, flowers like Montauk daisies and stokesia provide a last gasp of late fall color.

Love to use garlic in cooking? Consider planting your own. You can choose garlic types based on your taste. Then, as long as you've got composted and well-drained soil, you should get a good garlic harvest next summer.

Self-described queer post-punk band Thus Love, of Brattleboro, has received positive press in Rolling Stone, The Guardian and more. Their newest album, All Pleasure, dropped on Nov. 1 before the band heads out for a U.S. and U.K. tour.

You can plant crocus, daffodils and tulips outdoors now, as the soil is cool enough for them to overwinter and bloom next spring. And you can also plant bulbs in containers indoors. Use a layering technique and they will blossom for a month.

Voting is a deeply personal act. And not voting can be, too. Across the country, some voters continue to express dissatisfaction with Vice President Kamala Harris, saying she hasn’t separated herself from President Joe Biden on Gaza. Vermont Public talked to a few voters who shared similar views.

Nationally, pundits are describing this year's election as a red wave, following wins by President-elect Donald Trump and other Republicans going into a wide swath of federal and state-elected offices.

There are several different kinds of holiday cactuses: There's a Thanksgiving cactus, Christmas cactus and an Easter cactus. Holiday cactuses earn their names because they tend to bloom near Christian holidays.