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Push reel mowers, ahhh, breath the clean fresh air.

The origins of Hostas.

Get to know your local organic beekeepers.

Would you fly 55,000 miles just for a pound of honey?

Honeybees deserve a bit more love.

If you didn’t know that a nematode was an unsegmented, bilaterally symmetric and triploblastic protostomes with a complete digestive system, well, what does that say about you?

Rocks, sand and clay, oh my!

Have you ever had home-made blackberry jam? On toast, sandwiches, or cornbread this is one of my absolute favorites. This bounty comes with a price. Thorns, and I’m talking clothes ripping, hand pricking, blood letting thorns. And I swear these snaky tendrils reach out and grab you when you’re not looking. Think your free? Walk [...]

I have, on only one occasion seen, witnessed and observed a Western Coralroot orchid Corallorhiza maculata ssp. mertensiana in it’s native habitat. There was only one.  A delicate pinkish white candy-striped stem no more than 6 inches tall.  Nestled in a mossy grove under a great doug fir in the Cascade foothills.  It was like [...]