Honeybees deserve a bit more love.
March 29, 2010
Beneficial Insects
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?
February 25, 2010
Blackberries
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 [...]
February 24, 2010
Western Coralroot
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 [...]
February 9, 2010
Marigold Lore
New World natives, marigolds were the sacred flowers of the Aztecs. They attributed magical, religious, an medicinal properties to the marigolds.
January 12, 2010
Marigold Summers
When I was a child of oh 7 or 8 years old. We lived in Fort Collins Colorado. My best friends name was Brian. His claim to fame was that he could throw a rock further than anyone in the entire elementary school.
March 29, 2010
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