Lucy Smith

New York

Writer at The Peekskill Herald

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Articles

Ask a Gardener: “Crush on a Plant” with Shanti Nagel

6 days ago | peekskillherald.com | Lucy Smith

Shanti Nagel is a gardener, community organizer, landscape designer, and native plant enthusiast. Her work has changed the face of many NYC streetscapes and features native plants in areas with high human and automobile traffic. Through her landscape design business, Design Wild, Shanti centers the importance of mutual health between humans and the plant ecosystems we live in.
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1 month ago | peekskillherald.com | Lucy Smith

On Monday, March 17, at SUNY Westchester Community College, budding anthropologists, ecologists, botanists, landscape designers, community activists, and gardeners gathered for the second annual spring landscape conference. The theme of this year’s conference, “People–Plants–Place, Blending Ecology, Beauty and Spirit,” was explored by four speakers and organized by Peekskill’s own Carol Capobianco, the director of the college’s The Native Plant Center.
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1 month ago | peekskillherald.com | Lucy Smith

It’s almost the most wonderful time of the year – garden planting season! I’ve compiled some questions (and answers) chosen to help get your garden in the ground, whether it’s your first or fiftieth. I’m excited to start my very first garden, but lack the funds and expertise to build raised beds. What’s the best way to make a bed for veggies and flowers? Starting from the beginning can be daunting, but the easiest and quickest way to reap a bounty of flowers or vegetables is to build a no-dig bed.
6 Tasmanians share their stories about alcohol and mental health

1 month ago | fare.org.au | Lucy Smith

This article was originally published in The Mercury. Drinking alcohol can worsen sleep, mood, stress and energy levels. Yet a recent survey of Tasmanians found that 1 in 3 don’t know there’s a link between alcohol and mental health. The survey, commissioned by the Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education (FARE), also found that 1 in 4 Tasmanians want to cut back on their drinking, with the number rising to 1 in 3 among people aged 25-44.
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2 months ago | peekskillherald.com | Lucy Smith

In the depths of winter, birds can provide color and movement to our natural outdoor spaces. As well as entertaining watching humans, they add to the local ecosystem by spreading seed, aerating the soil, and keeping invertebrates in check. But besides putting out birdseed, how can we attract and support generations of these lively visitors?
Federal funding freeze keeps hardworking, legal refugees from health care, schools | Opinion

2 months ago | bnd.com | Lucy Smith

Several months ago, I had a last-minute add-on appointment, a third trimester pregnant patient with no other information. She was 18, a recent refugee to Kansas City, born in Rwanda but having spent the past 15 years of her life in refugee camps in neighboring countries. Her parents are educated and spent the entirety of that time trying to find legal pathways out of the refugee camps to build a better life for their three children.
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Jan 17, 2025 | peekskillherald.com | Lucy Smith

January signals a crucial period for gardening. This time of outer dormancy is when we begin to plan for the coming year, poring over seed catalogues and visualizing what our gardens will look like in six months. It’s tempting to give in to the hype of “new year, new you,” envisioning a fuller garden, and fast.
First Annual Peekskill Garlic Festival takes root

Nov 21, 2024 | peekskillherald.com | Lucy Smith

The sights, smells and sounds of garlic wafted from four community gardens on Saturday, Nov. 16 during the first annual Garlic Festival. Signs pointing out the Garlic Festival route guided participants from Woodside School at the end of Depew Street to the Middle School for a garden visit supercharged by the energy of the Peekskill City School District’s Saturday Academy, and then snaked up to the Garden Club of Peekskill’s Petals Garden on Central Avenue across from the artists lofts.
Launch of new health campaign 'Be Nice to Brain' in Tasmania

Nov 20, 2024 | fare.org.au | Lucy Smith

The Foundation of Alcohol Research and Education (FARE), in partnership with the Tasmanian Government, has launched a new digital campaign highlighting the link between alcohol and mental health. Minister for Mental Health and Wellbeing, Roger Jaensch, said Be Nice to Brain is a statewide digital campaign sharing the latest evidence-based information about the effect alcohol can have on your mental health and wellbeing.
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Nov 15, 2024 | peekskillherald.com | Lucy Smith

Everyone in my family knows of my love of the Macoun apple. Possessed of green-red, almost purple skin, its crisp, white flesh tastes faintly spicy and maintains a perfect balance between tart and sweet. Once picked, you have less than two weeks until its zingy crunch gives way to a still-delicious but decidedly mealy bite, which is why they’re better eaten in an orchard. This is also the reason why we planted a Macoun apple tree in our yard five years ago.