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April ABODE: Garden green

The perennial question: What flowers, and how long?

March ABODE

Smells like...

February ABODE

Feed the roots

Got scrip?

Local bartering networks are trading in time

In Ithaca we trust

All modern local currencies trace back to Ithaca Hours, the oldest, largest and most successful system of scrip in...

If you want to join

SBN currently has around 40 members with an active website and frequent e-mails. Join by clicking on the Yahoo!...

The taxman cometh

Looming over the barter economy is the specter of tax liability. Caroline Wilson, enrolled agent and master tax...

Your dinner starts now

Local food is sprouting, and spring’s the time to buy in

Shelves of volumes

Inside books, Bill Allard hunts a sense of space

Ground Rules: The big freeze

First frost is an end and—for bulb lovers—a beginning