June is the month when everything seems to happen at once: the garden really takes off (and so do the weeds), the school year ends with a flurry of activity and propels us into summer; strawberries get gloriously ripe overnight and beg to be eaten. Its a lucky thing that the days are so longwe all try to be as industrious as the honey bees that cruise among the blossoms from sunrise to sunset. From our New England village, population 560, to yours, whatever the size, we offer the following in this issue: