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When I heard that today's guest, who's been a guiding force in educating organic farmers, was finally publishing a book specifically for gardeners … I was thrilled. I'd been following JM Fortier since his first handbook on biointensive organic market... Read More ›

RHR interviews Kyla Derisi, Children’s Services Coordinator, Scoville Library and Dr. Linda Ciano, Ed. D, Director of Community Engagement, Project SAGE about the upcoming International Dot Day celebration to take place at the Library on September 13th.

RHR Interviews Dr. Richard Ostfeld, a Cary Institute disease ecologist who co-directs the tick-monitoring program and is a coauthor of this paper revealing some surprising Lyme Disease findings. For more than 35 years, researchers at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem... Read More ›

David Sterritt is a film critic, author, teacher and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until... Read More ›


Is a greenhouse in your future? I've never had one, and I have always been not-so-secretly jealous of friends who do—whether to propagate their seedlings in late winter into spring, or grow more tropicals and other “houseplants” than fit in... Read More ›

David Sterritt is a film critic, author, teacher and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until... Read More ›


The opening pages of Timothy Pakron's about-to-be-released cookbook aren't pictures of plates of food, but rather gorgeous flower photos – some dreamy cosmos, followed by a double-page spread of silvery mountain mint, or Pycnanthemum, gleaming against a moody dark background.... Read More ›

David Sterritt is a film critic, author, teacher and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until... Read More ›


Arthur Schwartz was the restaurant critic and executive food editor of the New York Daily News for 18 years. Perhaps what he's best known for is as a chameleon—he's successfully worked in radio, print media, cookbook publishing, TV, and teaching.

Rather than digging in, let's wade in to our topic this week – because the subject is waterlilies. If you follow any botanical gardens on social media, you've probably seen how the giant tropical Victoria water lilies, with their massive... Read More ›

David Sterritt is a film critic, author, teacher and scholar. He is most notable for his work on Alfred Hitchcock and Jean-Luc Godard, and his many years as the Film Critic for The Christian Science Monitor, where, from 1968 until... Read More ›