Spring Vegetables for Beginners

Spring Radish Seedlings

What are the best spring vegetables for beginners in the garden? Which vegetables do kids enjoy? When should you plant? Where is the best place to buy seeds? I will try to answer some of these questions. Please share your experience too.

3 Easy Spring Vegetables to Grow

These 3 spring vegetables are the [...]

We Need Trees

Stop and think about it for a minute. Trees are amazing, incredible, highly useful, and we need them.

Trees in our nature gardens, woodlands, and our forests produce oxygen, provide shade and shelter, absorb CO2, nurture insects to feed the birds we enjoy, provide seeds, nuts and fruits for us and other animals, grow into the [...]

Planning a Nature Garden

resources to help you plan all kinds of nature [...]

The Grackles’ Loss is My Gain

Hummingbird by Hart Curt

Most years, in spring, grackles come along and nest in a group of eastern red cedars on the fence-line of my property. I feel mean saying this, but over the Thanksgiving break I’ll be outside helping to fell those eastern red cedar trees. You might well be wondering why.

Eastern Red Cedars

Eastern [...]

Red Berries You Don’t Want!

Lonicera maackii by D. E. Herman

Here is a shrub with red berries you DON’T want in your garden or nature area. Looks pretty, don’t it?

What Is That Shrub With Red Berries?

Maybe you recognize the photo as Amur Honeysuckle, or Loniceri maackii. On the other hand you might be like me and have a hard [...]