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Random reflections, advice, and ideas on all things Almanac from the editors: Catherine Boeckmann, Mare-Anne Jarvela, Sarah Perreault, Janice Stillman, Heidi Stonehill, and art director Margo Letourneau.
How Is Your Garden Growing?
June 30, 2009 at 9:15 PM | Post a Comment
How is your garden growing? I thought that I'd share my progress--and would love to hear yours.
At the end of March, I blogged about starting my first organic vegetable garden. Today, my family and I harvested the lettuce--and made our first salad! My 3-year-old son even ate the lettuce that he helped grow--a first for him.
Snapper Snapshot
June 16, 2009 at 9:41 AM | Post a Comment
I recently saw a rare sight--at least for me. It was a snapping turtle laying her eggs in the sandy area of a meadow (a photo is shown here). There are four subspecies of common snapping turtles (Chelydra serpentina); one subspecies lives in Florida and two others live in Latin America. The one I saw was most likely a northern snapping turtle, which is found in the northern United States and southern Canada. Her shell was a foot or so long, and the hind end of her relatively smooth, dull, gray-green shell had scalloped edges. She also had a long tail.
Great Nature Books
Editors' Picks
May 27, 2009 at 12:04 PM | 3 Comments | Post a Comment
It's time for a new book blog! Last month, we shared our editors' picks for gardening books. This round, we list some of our favorite books about nature.
We hope that you enjoy--and we welcome your book picks, too!
Uncommon Plant Containers
Inspiring ideas
April 30, 2009 at 10:20 AM | 9 Comments | Post a Comment
Some of the most interesting plant containers are ones that were not originally intended for the purpose.
A few I months ago I bought supermarket salad greens in a clear, shoe box-size plastic container, with a separate lid, and, after eating the contents (which, oddly enough, were packed in a cellophane bag), resisted bringing the container to the recycling center because it seemed there just had to be some way I could reuse it . . .
Your Backyard Birds
What birds have you seen?
April 13, 2009 at 8:04 AM | 27 Comments | Post a Comment
At breakfast, I sit near my backyard window and listen to birds' sweet songs in the morning light.
Did you know that birds are one of the best cues to the length of a day? The changing daylight has a hormonal trigger in birds, and starts birds whistling.
