Our native swamp rose (Rosa palustris) is now blooming at the preserve. You can find it around the pond and in the wetlands downstream and…

There is a surging interest in locally-grown food, but land prices here are high and few new farmers have access to farmland through inheritance: they…

The eyes have it. Snapped a shot of this fellow with the fierce mien in our barn. Be assured that every wolf spider I have…

Flowers fill the woods now as the trees’ leaves emerge bright. I haven’t taken many pictures lately so I’ll include here better ones that Denis…

This weekend I had the pleasure of joining Kevin Fryberger of Brandywine Conservancy to co-lead a walk at their Waterloo Mills Preserve on the topic…

Here’s the latest report on spring at the preserve: hawthornes (Crataegus sp.) are blooming. I’ve never paid much attention to them before now but there…

Seamus and Duffy are not our summer interns—those folks start next month. These guys are goats, 7 and 8 year old Nubian wethers (fixed males)…

Shadbush (amelanchier, serviceberry) is blooming right now at Crow’s Nest, with many visible at the woods edge along Piersol Road. It’s flowering time is short…

On an evening walk I could see just the top of this barn over the rise of the farm fields at Crow’s Nest, with a…

We held our first prescribed burn of the year yesterday, a little late in the season but finally the weather cooperated. We burned half of…