Trying to build a smart home nearly three years before the first iPhone was released was likely an act of combined hope, hubris, and stupidity. Early home automation products were limited in options ...

As is my tradition, when the year comes to an end, I look back at where we’ve been, you and I, at the adventures and misadventures, and pull from my line up of columns moments that stand out, one per ...

Normally at this time of year — and what a year this has been — we reflect back on what we’ve learned on our journey toward better living. So here are my top takeaways from 2020: In January, sick of ...

What garden designers put in their own gardens is perhaps more revealing than what they create for their clients, who generally have extensive land, and expansive budgets. In their own homes, garden ...

In a world that often seems to imply that we can shop our way to a solution to anything, Eliot Coleman’s message to gardeners and farmers is starkly different, and has been for some 50 years. Coleman, ...

When we started working from home in March 2020, many of us who had not worked at home before may have begun with certain assumptions about what it would be like and what we would need. It’s now over ...