This Month’s Featured Articles…

We have a lot of lawns in our predominantly rural tri-state region. Keeping those plots and rolling acres verdant and orderly has a high cost – not just to our wallets but to the health and diversity of our land and ourselves. However, the lawn-based paradigm of beauty we’ve inherited from past generations is shifting, and Matt Schwaikert of Matt’s Landscaping can help you shift your lawn from monoculture grass and tidy mulched borders to meadows and nature scapes based on diversity and native plantings. [...]

Congress is getting ready to shape the 2023 Farm Bill.  Here’s a snapshot of some of the agriculture industry’s hot topics.  The 2023 Farm Bill supports family farms through conserving natural resources and promoting the agricultural economy. Approximately every five years, America’s farm-related businesses are affected by this federal bill—a significant piece of legislation that is voted on and passed by Congress. Due to its sheer size and scope, this bill impacts many livelihoods, the economy, the food industry, and beyond. The recent Inflation Reduction [...]

Part of what Main Street Magazine has been delivering every month for the past ten – yes, ten! – years, is fresh and interesting local content. If the magazine were a buffet, it would be all kinds of deliciousness. So here’s another addition to the fresh, exciting, local offerings in the delicious and delightful area we call home: Aloha Tacos.  The company was launched in September 2021 by friends Nicole Friedrich and Gwen Menshenfriend. I caught up with the “Aloha Girls” as they call themselves [...]

As we celebrate our tenth anniversary, we invite you to glance back at the last decade. While we’re looking at where we’ve been, let’s also take time to look ahead with optimism for what’s to come.  A decade is a long time. Think about all of the events that occurred during this era. The decade opened up with Hurricane Sandy thrashing into the New York and New Jersey areas in autumn 2012. After joining forces with a winter storm, it created the largest storm surge [...]

Many tear-sodden, crumpled papers ago, I wrestled with the geometry of diagramming sentences (yes, I went to Catholic school). A two-word sentence was simple enough, all horizontal and vertical, but when things went all 45 degrees, and sentences became complex and compound, my diagrams resembled a thicket more than a pine branch.  There is something comforting about sentence diagrams, though: a clarity of thought and organization that dictates that every word serves a purpose and that there ought to be a relationship among words and [...]