"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." If you spend a fair amount of time outdoors, a pair of rubber boots is a necessity year-round. In fall, ...

Almost endless rain, puddles and deep mud made planting a vegetable garden difficult this spring. There’s still time, vegetable experts say. “This year has been really weird,” says Joe Masabni, a ...

New England's own Nathaniel Hawthorne once wrote, "Life is made up of marble and mud." In the region's northern reaches, life will soon be made up of mud, mud and more mud.Mud season is a rite of ...

Forecasters say northern New England's forthcoming mud season might stretch into the middle of May.Mud season is a rite of spring in Maine, New Hampshire and Vermont when the frozen ground melts and ...