Brined a turkey for the first time this year–turned out quite yummy! I was much more excited with my green beans, though. I accidentally bought some extra rosemary sprigs, and needed a way to use them up. I give you: Rosemary Green Beans.* green...

The Donors Choose Challenge is now over, and the project to get more nature bloggers involved was a success!! The total amount given for the Nature Blogs Group was $5,170.  That put our group at #11–not quite in the top 10, but still pretty darn...

Just in time for the holidays–Xerces has a new native bee calendar! “The Xerces Society and the Great Sunflower Project are happy to offer the 2010 Native Bee Calendar, which was created by Celeste Ets-Hokin. With magnificent close-up photos by Rollin...

It’s time for OpenLab! Since I will almost certainly be on the job market soon, an inclusion in OL would be a handy thing for my vita. I’m just sayin’…… Here’s some posts I’m considering nominating: Insect Genitalia: an Entomological Obsession Are...

I happened to find this very entertaining Extension Publication in a box: Good Eating from Woods and Fields.  It’s a 1960 reprint of an earlier pamphlet, and what a cultural artifact it is! I couldn’t decide which of the photos to put here, and so...