Learn to identify beaver sign, how they change the landscape, how they live, and why sharing the land with them is crucial for sustainability.
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Learn about bumblefoot and treatment with TricideNeo, a non-surgical option that works for some cases. It’s painless for the bird and easy for you. Worked for all 3 of my chickens.
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Recipe for cranberry swirl cheese ice cream combines homemade cranberry sauce and a fresh cheese ice cream, for a fabulous holiday dessert.
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Witch hazel’s beautiful fall flowers and fruit capsules, interesting reproductive strategy, and unanswered questions.
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Growing squash and pumpkins in the home garden: evade squash bugs, avoid chemicals, choose varieties, and harvest an abundance of nutritious fruits.
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Wild cranberries begin to ripen in September, but I like to wait until late October, or even November, to harvest them. They sweeten as the season progresses, especially if they are hit with a frost after they have already turned … Continue reading
Recipe for the smoothest and creamiest maple ice cream ever, uses pure maple sugar, rather than syrup.
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Birch syrup is made from the sap of the paper birch (or black birch) tree, in the same way that maple syrup is made from the sap of the sugar maple tree. But the spicy, warm caramel flavor of birch … Continue reading
This must be a banner year in Massachusetts for woolly oak galls produced by the wasp Callirhytis lanata, because we naturalists-but-not-bug-experts who’ve never noticed them in past years, have been finding these quarter-inch, buff colored pompoms scattered all over the … Continue reading