The kids at camp have sharp eyes for the little critters that underpin the food web but usually go unnoticed. This is a Definite Tussock…

The kids at summer camp yesterday saw this beautiful moth, recently emerged from its cocoon. It’s a giant leopard moth (Hypercompe scribonia) whose caterpillar is…

There is a lot blooming at the preserve, more than I’ve been able to keep up with. Here and there in the woods along French…

Owen and I have now visited 14 of the 16 preserves listed in the Field Guide to Natural Lands Trust Preserves. This weekend we visited…

For a while I’ve wanted to have a chicken tractor—a portable pen for chickens moved every day—and since we now have chicks Denise has built…

Dig the tent out of the attic and get outside this Saturday for the Great American Backyard Campout this Saturday, June 25. Turn off the…

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…

This week the Crow’s Nest interns visited Recycling Services, Inc. in Pottstown, partly as a field trip to one of the oldest and most comprehensive…

Here’s a photo of Eloise Smyrl, Crow’s Nest Camp Educator, who just completed this year’s Schuylkill River Sojourn. That’s a week of kayaking from Pottsville…

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…