Celebrate Emerald Ash Borer Week with a bash ash borer bash
Vermont, along with the rest of the country, will recognize National Emerald Ash Borer Awareness Week, May 22-28.
Considering in the dark — many ‘ifs’ of turkey seduction
Okay, I think we’ve really had enough of the April showers thing. I’m ready for the May flowers, and turkeys, and ramps, and fiddleheads, and nettles, and dandelion greens … and turkeys.
First-time gardeners need to know to start with a plan
Do you want to enjoy fresh, home-grown veggies this summer? Perhaps you’d like to adorn your home with fresh-cut flowers.
Reflections on branches and the complex society of trees
Are trees individuals? I started to think about this question after hearing a researcher say that trees are “colonial organisms” — more like colonies of autonomous branches than individuals. As I struggled to find answers, I found that this topic is as nuanced and as complex as our forests.
Bee aware
The Quinlan Covered Bridge butterfly garden gets some clean up.
Onions one of first vegetables to plant in spring
A simple staple in many cuisines and recipes, onions can be a satisfying plant to grow in the garden. While it is easy to buy them at the grocery store, fresh onions are unique in flavor and intensity.
Ants gardeners of many early spring wildflowers
As we delight in energy from the warming sun, so too do ephemeral wildflowers, taking advantage of sunlight before trees in the canopy leaf out.
Green Mountain Bicycle Club rides for May 2022
Join us for recreational rides.
Trimming the trees
Charlotte Tree Tribe members do some trimming
Hellebores bring a stunning display and herald spring
For a stunning display of blooms in early spring, most New England gardens would benefit from the addition of a remarkable perennial — the hellebore.
When fishing with intention and discipline, who gets ‘hooked’?
One of the few things my father handed down to me was a deep abiding love of trout.
Gardeners take your mark, get seeds, get ready, go
Are you feeling those subtle hints that gardening season is truly coming?
Pilgrimage or hike — walking the Camino de Santiago
In the old days when someone went for a long walk, they called it a pilgrimage. Today they call it a hike — most of the time — but sometimes people still go for hikes that they call a pilgrimage.
Saving the butternut — important part of saving forests
Butternut (Juglans cinerea) is an enigmatic tree. Also called white walnut, butternut is the hardiest member of the walnut genus, with a range stretching north into southern Ontario, Quebec and New Brunswick, as far west as Minnesota, Iowa and Missouri, and south to Tennessee.
Savor the good news of spring in the outdoors
Stop doom scrolling, please, long enough to digest some slivers of good news. Open your eyes. A tsunami of courtship and mating is underway.
Long skate on Lake Champlain turns into loon rescue
Our crew has a lunch policy. “Not a rule mind you, just a policy” put forward years ago by Charlotte resident John Rosenthal.
As winter winds down — root vegetables on our minds
While there are still a few weeks till it’s wise to start seeds inside, this is a good time to use up the root vegetables so prolific in the produce stalls at this time of year.
While garden’s on hiatus try growing greens indoors
Temperatures have dropped, and the garden has been put to bed for the season.
Responsible forest management doesn’t mean deforestation
Over the last few centuries, Vermont’s forests have been on a transformative journey.
Vernacular strategies for flushing an ‘outta stater’ on the ice
The milky surface ice has begun to pull away from the rocky, pebbled shoreline of the bay. Tiny vertical prisms are visible in the hoarfrost-like honeycomb of the decaying core.