Of all the names people call homesteaders—come on, you know we are easy to talk about— there is one that really gets my goat:…
It was a cold morning and I had just come in from filling the backyard bird feeders. I stoked the fire and poured myself…
Mark Twain was born in the hamlet of Florida; “Black Jack Pershing on a farm near Laclede; George Washington Carver, Tuskegee’s great research scientist, of…
Wild turkeys are fickle things. The Texas Parks and Wildlife biologist who was going to do our land assessment had to reschedule our rescheduled (due…
I grew up a city girl in Wisconsin on a city lot of 50 by 100 feet. In the backyard we had 2 rose bushes…
Read Dendrology Demystified: A Tree Tutorial Part One It's been called swamp thing. Red maple, or swamp maple, has made something of a reputation for…