Honey bees — who really needs saving? (Part 1)Nature is complex and we operate from a position of never having as much information as we would like.Mar 3, 2023Mar 3, 2023
Foraging: Eating What Grows (and When What Grows is Invasive)I first found a patch of stinging nettle the way most with an untrained eye do — by getting stung, betrayed by the gap at my wrist between…Jan 30, 2023Jan 30, 2023
Beauty’s Place in an EcosystemThe first winter we lived in our house, we cleared about a dozen holly trees lining the road front of our house. Neighbors were pleased…Jan 21, 2023Jan 21, 2023
Ecological Ring-Around-the-Rosy: When Invasives Aren’t All BadI am trying to kill the fig buttercup the way I’m supposed to according to the government website, but right now there’s a bee on it. —…Jan 6, 2023Jan 6, 2023
The Living Dead of the Forest: Snags and Nurse LogsI sat and watched a pileated woodpecker build a nest for twenty minutes recently. Minutes I meant to be spending doing other things. These…Dec 29, 2022Dec 29, 2022
Rubus: Fairytales and a Shared Seattle NemesisWhen Sleeping Beauty, also known as Little Briar-Rose fell into an enchanted sleep on her fifteenth birthday, having pricked her finger on…Nov 29, 2022Nov 29, 2022
Red Alders: Forest Succession and the Weed Tree that Makes it PossibleWe had an arborist out to our house recently, because a hemlock tree nearly 80 feet tall and not a dozen feet from our house was clearly in…Nov 15, 2022Nov 15, 2022
Bradley Sisters, Bradley Method“Bringing back the bush involves two quite different kinds of time. The first is time spent working…the second is the time spent…Oct 29, 2022Oct 29, 2022
