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Not So Pokey
If supporting birds and bees is your thing (and if you’re reading this, I suspect it is), you can do a lot worse than allowing American pokeweed (Phytolacca americana) to run wild.
Like fellow natives Carolina horsenettle (Solanum caroline...
This Got My Goat
I read something depressing yesterday.
Granted, it is easy to find depressing things to read in the news. Global temperatures reached record highs in August. Swiss glaciers are disappearing. Artificial Intelligence plans to take our jobs,...
Superstars of Autumn
As we hit the autumn equinox, evening temperatures at Puddock Hill have fallen into the fifties and leaves have begun to drop (nuts, too). But the native bees and wasps are still busy. Frantic, one might say.
There is no time of year that...
Patience Rewarded
We need more trees. The world needs more trees.
Despite reports of progress in some places, Nature World News reports that “Forest loss surges across tropical regions in 2026, with deforestation rates climbing sharply due to agriculture, f...
Superstar Trees (2)
A couple weeks ago, I wrote about keystone trees, which punch above their weight for our native ecology and which should be the first consideration when planting. But there are other native trees of value to nature that I would not want to...
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My Backyard Stewardship publication discusses how I'm turning our property, Puddock Hill, into a haven for wildlife. My We Once Were Giants Substack is a serialization of my latest novel. I'm author of 10 books with an MES degree from the UPenn.
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