Oct 12, 2012 — A group of students from Little River Community School, near Canton, is putting the final touches on a haunted house. Actually, it's an old sugar shack in a grove of trees that will be filled with typical Halloween creepy characters and decor. It's part of this weekend's North Country Harvest Festival at Honey Dew Acres, near Crary Mills. The event will feature music, storytelling, pumpkins...and some spooky fun.

Todd Moe stopped by for a haunted house dress rehearsal.  Go to full article

Oct 08, 2012 — This year's brilliant fall color display is fast giving way to the second annual leaf event: Raking season.

Few people will say raking is their favorite outdoor chore. But in their weekly conversation, Amy Ivy tells Martha Foley there are plenty of reasons to cherish those fallen leaves, and more than one way to deal with them.  Go to full article

Canton, NY, Sep 24, 2012 — It's officially fall, and practically speaking, frost advisories put fall chores at the top of a gardener's mind. But what to do? Is it worth the covering tomatoes? Will the winter squash survive a touch of frost? And what about flowers?

Cornell Cooperative extension horticulturist Amy Ivy sorts through some of the priorities in her weekly conversation with Martha Foley.

(Hints: "maybe" on the tomatoes, "no" on the winters squash's prospects.)  Go to full article

Plattsburgh, NY, Sep 17, 2012 — You've planned, planted, watered and weeded. Now, with frost and freeze warnings this past weekend, it's about time to tuck the garden in for the winter. Tidying away the spent tomatoes and bean plants, prepping to plant garlic, whatever your fall list includes, Cornell Cooperative Extension horticulturist Amy Ivy has another important entry. She tells Martha Foley about why soil should be tested every few years, and how to do it.  Go to full article

Chestertown, NY, Sep 07, 2012 — John Warren, of the Adirondack Almanack, joins us Friday mornings with information about local outdoor and back country conditions.  Go to full article

Chestertown, NY, Aug 31, 2012 — John Warren, of the Adirondack Almanack, joins us Friday mornings with information about local outdoor and back country conditions.  Go to full article

Lake Placid, NY, Oct 04, 2011 — Attention leaf-peepers: peak season is nearly here in the Adirondacks.

The official New York state foliage report says trees around Lake Placid are changing colors quickly. They're expected to be a peak by the weekend, with near complete color change, and a mix of golds, yellows, reds, mixed in with the evergreens. Old Forge, and the Mount Arab/ Tupper Lake area are all expecting 95-percent color change this week and a mix of red, russet, orange and gold leaves.

Nina Bussuk is a professor in the Cornell Horticulture Department. While we all learn in school about chlorophyll making leaves green. She says that pigment breaks down in the fall. And if we're lucky a red pigment takes its place.  Go to full article

Plattsburgh, NY, Nov 16, 2009 — Martha Foley and horticulturist Amy Ivy talk about autumn and winter decorations. Bringing delights from the outdoors inside, and brightening the early nights.  Go to full article

Plattsburgh, NY, Oct 12, 2009 — Martha Foley and horticulturist Amy Ivy talk about more garden chores, after most of the fall harvest is completed.  Go to full article

Plattsburgh, NY, Oct 05, 2009 — Martha Foley and horticulturist Amy Ivy talk about some late season garden topics -- planting garlic bulbs for next summer, and composting those autumn leaves.  Go to full article