Beaver: appreciating nature’s other engineer
Learn to identify beaver sign, how they change the landscape, how they live, and why sharing the land with them is crucial for sustainability.
Continue reading →Bumblefoot treatment with TricideNeo
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.
Continue reading →Hawthorn berries: identify, harvest, and make an extract
Learn to forage for hawthorn berries and use them to make hawthorn berry extract.
Continue reading →Wild cranberry swirl cheese ice cream
Recipe for cranberry swirl cheese ice cream combines homemade cranberry sauce and a fresh cheese ice cream, for a fabulous holiday dessert.
Continue reading →Witch hazel: Flowers, fruit capsules, and reproductive strategy
Witch hazel’s beautiful fall flowers and fruit capsules, interesting reproductive strategy, and unanswered questions.
Continue reading →Squash and pumpkins in the home garden
Growing squash and pumpkins in the home garden: evade squash bugs, avoid chemicals, choose varieties, and harvest an abundance of nutritious fruits.
Continue reading →Cranberries from the wild
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 →
Maple ice cream made with pure maple sugar
Recipe for the smoothest and creamiest maple ice cream ever, uses pure maple sugar, rather than syrup.
Continue reading →Birch syrup ice cream with buttered hickory nuts
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 →
Woolly oak galls, Callirhytis lanata
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 →