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Conserving Water, One Raindrop at a Time

This Saturday, November 8, as part of their Green Gardening Educational Series, The Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge will offer a special two-hour talk on water conservation in the garden by guest lecturer Marcus de la Fleur.  Mr. de la Fleur, a landscape architect with the Conservation Design Forum

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Food for Thought: The 6th Annual Northwest Connecticut Kitchen Tour

The last thing you're probably thinking about at the moment is renovating your kitchen. But now's a good time not only to day dream about new cabinets, countertops and appliances but also to put together that binder of ideas and inspiration so when the economy bounces

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A New Museum Shop at Clermont

Our faithful correspondent, interior designer Carey Maloney, partner, with architect Hermes Mallea, in M (Group), fills us in on the holiday shopping potential of the new museum shop at Clermont. No one appreciates a good museum shop more than me.  I have to fight my assorted demons to hold out

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Atelier Renee, A Framer in Red Hook

Our Rural Restoration Blogger Carey Maloney, an interior designer who is a partner, with architect Hermes Mallea, in the M (Group), expounds on why Atelier Renee, in Red Hook, is such an outstanding place to get art, maps, and pictures, especially old ones, framed. Many of the framers we’ve

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New York Botanical Continuing Ed Sallelite at Bard

It begins with the first sign of fall and grows more pronounced with every passing week.  Gardeners who for months have been bounding (well, perhaps not quite bounding) out of bed at 5 a.m. to squeeze in as many hours of muddy bliss as possible, retreat indoors to mope

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Shopping: An Americana Auction at Copake

If you're frustrated by the high prices at many antiques stores and jonesing for something new for your house that connects you to the past, you should do like the dealers do: bid for bargains at the Copake Auction gallery. This Saturday, Copake is holding one of its

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The Last Open Day of the Season

Ah the joys of snooping around other peoples' gardens, luxuriating in their seeming miles of brilliantly conceived, meticulously maintained, well-fed, deeply-mulched, weed-free planting beds, without personally having suffered a single twinge of sciatica or, indeed, so much as a broken nail.  Devotees of the Garden Conservancy

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Live & Learn: The Well-Appointed House, Circa 2008

Ever had that nagging feeling when talking to one of those guys who charge a lot of dough to cure what ails your house that you are slogging through a marsh?  (This sensation can be especially pronounced when a hyper-verbal Know-Nothing is holding up both ends of a

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A Cinderella House Makes Its Debut for Charity

Matthew Patrick Smyth, an A-list New York decorator with a weekend house in Sharon, is used to working for demanding clients who expect things done yesterday. So he was not surprised when Scott and Roxanne Bok approached him in June about decorating a restored 19th century farmhouse in Salisbury,

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Gardening: Hollister House Festival & Seminar

Hollister House, in Washington, CT, is the featured site of a Garden Conservancy-sponsored Study Weekend that kicks off with a cocktail reception and tour of the extraordinary gardens that were begun there in 1979 by George Schoellkopf and Ron Johnson.  Since then, under Schoellkopf’s guidance (and, since 1993,

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Giving Soul to A Spec House in Austerlitz

A brand new house is a blessing and a burden, a tabula rasa that  comes without the history, quirks and charm that are the hallmarks of memorable country houses.  Over the past seven years, James Oates and William Li have transformed a modest, spanking-new timber-peg, three-bedroom house

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Amy Goldman, Champion of the Real Tomato

“We're lucky to be living in such interesting tomato times," Rhinebeck resident Amy Goldman writes in her latest book, The Heirloom Tomato From Garden To Table (Bloomsbury USA, $35).  Twenty years ago cheap, perfectly shaped, unblemished, flavorless, dull red orbs were considered almost alright. Today, thanks to

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