Outdoors & Environment

To a hunter, Thanksgiving has its own traditions.

There’s nothing like creating a salad of freshly harvested greens you’ve grown yourself from seed.

Every gardener has a fall to-do list to complete: pulling annuals, raking leaves and storing hoses and other garden tools.

Before you doze off, have you ever visited the Oven at Raven Ridge?

Have you ever wondered why plant names are in Latin?

Latin, a language originating from Italy, spread throughout Europe with the expansion of the Roman Empire.

Paul Wagenhofer’s message may be difficult to take in. It’s a message the geophysicist admits he’s still working to refine. To say, “It’s complicated” is a profound understatement.

Autumn is well underway. The leaves are falling, and it’s time to put the garden to bed in anticipation of the coming season.

This summer a swarm of honeybees set up housekeeping in the space between the screened porch ceiling and flooring of the deck above.

Vermonters saw firsthand how intense rainfall within those fateful 48 hours in July broke records, homes, farms and lives. At the bottom of it all sat Lake Champlain, a trough for the floodwater barreling down its shores.

If you’re tuned into what’s happening with forests in our region, you may have heard that we can manage forests for carbon and be paid for it.

A lot of Vermonters are noticing that their crabapples and apples (Malus spp.), in addition to many other deciduous trees, have dropped many of their leaves well before the first autumn frost.

With cooler temperatures upon us, we have to say goodbye to our beautiful summer annuals. However, with container plantings, you can continue to garden throughout the year.

On a highly-altered landscape, the idea of an old-growth forest is captivating to many. But what are old-growth forests? And why do they matter?

With bear season having started Sept. 1, and rising reports of bear encounters in Vermont’s more urban areas like South Burlington, the state is faced with new discussions on how best to manage its bear population, if at all.

For us obsessed waterfowl hunters, Christmas happens this Saturday. It is opening day for ducks on Lake Champlain.

Buying spring bulbs for me is a lot like approaching a salad buffet in a restaurant. You want a little bit of everything, just to see how it tastes.

On a highly-altered landscape, the idea of an old-growth forest is captivating to many. But what are old-growth forests? And why do they matter?

Snapping turtles are emerging from eggs laid in June. With a temporary egg tooth, hatchlings cut an exit from their leathery homes of several months.

Trees provide us with many gifts: shade, wind breaks, erosion control, beautiful foliage, an invitation to birds and other wildlife and, in the case of fruit or nut trees, something tasty to harvest.