I haven’t kept up with all the blooms that have exploded over the last month, and the preserve has been beautiful. Here are a few…

We’re not talking about my mind, here, though sometimes I wonder. I found nodding ladies’ tresses orchid here for the first time in years. Above…

Thanks to Force of Nature volunteer Matthew Roberson, the footbridge I started building two years ago is finished! I just couldn’t find the time to…

There is an exciting calendar of fall public events at Natural Lands Trust preserves here, and one of them is a members-only breakfast at Crow’s…

  Can you identify at which Natural Lands Trust preserve this abandoned farm implement can be found? Hint: it’s at our newest preserve, the one…

This Saturday night, August 10, the Chesmont Astronomy Club will be holding their annual star watch (rain or cloud-cover date is Sunday the 11th) at…

I wasn’t actually present during the 7/8 camp at Crow’s Nest last week, so I have to rely on the photos and the (perhaps biased)…

I had the good fortune to attend the biennial Mid-Atlantic Invasive Plant Conference this week held at the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s National Conservation…

Not wines, vines. Although some of the vines are grapes. This poison ivy vine recently cut at Crow’s Nest is not quite as old as…

We had another great week of camp at Crow’s Nest, this time with much cooler weather and still very lucky avoiding thunderstorms. The third and…