Here we are looking at another New Year. My favorite part has always been the resolutions. A fresh start. Another chance. Here are a couple of suggestions to improve the odds for 2012 and save some money along the way. Have you heard of the term buycotting? It’s the opposite […]
While we are all celebrating the season of spending money on each other, how about making some of those gifts benefit both the recipients and the planet? It’s a great opportunity to put a little green into the lives of those you love. Here are a few places you may […]
Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) is turning up in the Midwest, and leaving dead ash trees in its wake. They have got ecologists and entymologists scrambling to understand what this means so that arborists and foresters can be prepared. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources, UW- Extension and Dane County combined […]
This year I did my required volunteer hours (and then some!) for the Madison Area Master Gardeners Association by co-editing its Wisconsin Garden Journal. The efforts and expertise of many Master Gardener Volunteers were poured enthusiastically into this volume. THIS BOOK WOULD MAKE A GREAT GIFT FOR EVERY GARDENER IN […]
Lisa P. Jackson, Obama’s administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency spoke at UW-Madison campus this week, and I pedaled down to campus to hear her. Jackson’s visit to Madison could be considered something of a pilgrimage. Her job and all the main environmental protection laws grew out of the Earth […]
I LOVE BIKING! But I put my bike away when it starts to snow in Wisconsin. I see people who pedal through till spring, and I salute them, but there is something I don’t like about a biker’s odds in snow. The pavement gets slippery, and the roads become narrower […]
Here’s an article by Jill Saka that relates the incidence of deer ticks to the presence of honeysuckle — one of the most fierce and destructive invasives in our woodlands. I have only taken a casual swipe at the honeysuckle on my property yet, but this article is more than […]
Next Monday, October 24, is Food Day, sponsored by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, a nonprofit watchdog group. This organization has been working for safer food since 1971. They promoting meals built around vegetables, fruits and whole grains instead of processed packaged foods. They have coordinated many […]
If you live in deer tick country, tuck your pants in your socks. I just read in my October Arboretum Newsletterthat the deer tick population there is on the increase. Researchers are on the lookout for these little beasties there, and this past summer they found deer ticks in […]
Lake Sturgeon have been around a long, long time. They were swimming in ancient seas while dinosaurs walked the earth. They are tough, crafty and have survived everything that 150 million years can thrown at them — until the 1860s when humans decided their eggs were a prestigious snack. I […]
Digging in the Driftless 