Meet My Friend Margaret

Margaret Roach has been gardening in Copake Falls (near Bash Bish) for more than twenty years and she writes about it on her wonderful website, A Way To Garden. She's not only opinionated about plants, she is opinionated about everything in our region. Check out how she answered Twenty Questions posed to her by Rural Intelligence.

Reviving the Village Gardeners

Last summer, many people in town were grumbling about how shabby the public plantings looked (right). All those beds of hydgrangea that dot the village were overgrown with weeds and they had not been mulched as in previous years. Jack Limpert decided to do something about it and talked to Debbie Munson about organizing volunteers to take care of the public beds. While the Board of Selectmen has budgeted for some maintenance, there are still other garden areas that will go to weed again unless volunteers step in to help. Jenny Law (below) and Karen Lindquist were weeding outside Town Hall on Sunday, and if you would like to volunteer to keep Falls Village looking its best this summer, call Jack Limpert, who is organizing weeding teams, at 824-5958.