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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...

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CSA 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...

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CSA 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...

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One 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...

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CSA 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

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CSA 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...

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What 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....

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Autumn 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...

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Going 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...

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Audubon 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...

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Check 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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