Shell’s Covert, by Marc Puckett

                As a biologist’s career progresses more and more of their time is taken up by non-biological tasks. Things like cyber-security, budgeting, purchasing, and other

You’re fired up about fire in every way…until you suddenly find yourself in charge of the prescribed fire on your own land. It was fun

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               Eighteen years ago my wife and I became the owners of forty-two acres of land in the southern piedmont of Virginia. Partly by kindness and

               Happy October to you. I thought I’d try to write something useful about herbicides which on the surface seems to be a boring topic.

This spring I planted six rows of sweetcorn enthusiastically looking forward to the fresh ears roasting over charcoal (peel the husks backs but don’t remove

As I write this, we are being hammered by one of the first “boilers” of summer. These are thunderstorms not really associated with a weather

After many years of hard work advising others how to create critter cover, I finally found myself owning 42 acres of rural Prince Edward County

Before I get too deep into the mulching business, I want to write a few lines of thanks to one of our recently departing private

Sitting on my front porch yesterday watching that heavy, wet snow pile up and watching the squirrels try to figure out my new squirrel-proof bird