Environment

History traditionally has ranked alchemists with counterfeit artists, huckster quacks, snake oil salesmen, and witches. Miscellany from Douglas G. Pearce’s Countryside Digest.

Both male and female wrens generate a potpourri of chatter – a profusion of messaging rivaling the texting of human teenagers.

Many new point-and-shoot cameras have a macro focus function, allowing you to take close-up photos of miniature creatures.

“We want people to taste the bounty of the land that is threatened by the quarry,” says Stadtländer.

“He that looketh on a plate of ham and eggs to lust after it hath already committed breakfast with it in his heart.”
C.S. Lewis

Most butterfly caterpillars will mature and form chrysalides within two or three weeks.

This spring, when The Highland Companies filed its application for a 2,316-acre limestone quarry, a small rural protest caught the big wave.

This spring, when The Highland Companies filed its application for a 2,316-acre limestone quarry, a small rural protest caught the big wave.

A review of recent studies suggests many amoebae have sex! Miscellany from Douglas G. Pearce’s Countryside Digest.

If you have seen a luna moth recently in Headwaters please let us know.

Meaningful Mouthful “‘Eating is an agricultural act,’ as Wendell Berry famously said.

Or drink cement. Or greet your neighbours across a 2,300 acre pit.