Hope for Ash Trees? For the First Time, Scientists Successfully Use Wasps to...
Photo: Michael Bohne US FSScientists employing a technique called biosurveillance, which uses one species to find another, recently discovered an invasive beetle called the emerald ash borer in...
View ArticleCSA Veggie of the Week: Potato
Photo: Scott Bauer/ARS Photo LibraryPotatoes can be whipped and mashed and shredded and roasted, fried and pancaked and thin-sliced and toasted. There are sweet ones and round ones and some shaped like...
View ArticleCSA Veggie of the Week: Squash
Photo: Vancity Allie/CC BY-NC-SA 2.0Squash! We got our first two squash of the season (acorn and butternut) our past couple CSA pickups. I’m super-excited for the winter varietals, but it’s apparently...
View ArticleOne Man's Motorcycle Quest After Native Plants
Image by Joshua Marowitz.Joshua Marowitz hasn't slept in his own bed in two months. He's been on the road, cruising cross country on a jam-packed motorcycle, ending each day at a friend's or a...
View ArticleCSA Veggie of the Week: Bok Choy
Photo: Keith Weller/USDA Agricultural Research ServiceBok choy is hard to mistake for any other vegetable. It’s a leafy cabbage with thick white stalks that sprout up into large green leaves.read more
View ArticleCSA Recipe Resource
Photo: Eastbourne Bed and BreakfastDuring the past 15 weeks, I’ve written about much of the wonderful produce we got from our farm share. So you have all 72 recipes in one place, here’s a list, for...
View ArticleWhat To Do with Pomegranates? A Few Simple Ideas
Photo: Madlyinlovewithlife/CC BY-NC-ND 2.0Pomegranates have made a real leap to stardom the past few years, mostly in the form of their ruby red juice. But I personally love the seeds, called arils....
View ArticleAutumn In Focus
Photograph by jespha/stock.xchngNature, the great artificer, is always at work undermining her masterpieces. She adds an extraneous figure here or a grotesquerie there. There are a thousand discoveries...
View ArticleGoing Native: A Midwestern Gardner's Guide to Creating a Wildlife Oasis
Midwestern gardeners who aim to create native landscapes that provide important habitat to birds and other wildlife have a valuable new resource: “The Midwestern Native Garden, Native Alternatives to...
View ArticleAudubon Magazine’s 2012 List of Notable Books
In each issue of Audubon, the editors review a mix of narrative nonfiction titles, as well as art books and children’s books about nature. For ease, we’ve compiled the dozens of fantastic works we...
View ArticleCheck Out Seeds Along with Library Books
Photo: Alexandre Dulaunoy/CC BY-SA 2.0Next time you loan a book from your public library, consider checking out some seeds, too. Yes, you read that right. More than two-dozen libraries across the...
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