Buckwheat cover crop. Photo © Dreamstime.com. Cool-season cover crops are what many people think of when cover crops are mentioned. While not providing the biomass and carbon gain of warm season C4...
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Camp & Cabin Cookin’, September 2022
Recipes: Corned Beef, Reuben Sandwich Stromboli. Recipes: Chocolate Chip Cookies, Mint Chocolate Chip Ice Cream.
Acquiring Photographic Inspiration: Focus Illustrated and Favorite Focus, September 2022
Covers, August 2022
Let’s Take a Hike: White-tailed Fawn
White-tailed fawn, Big Meadows, Shenandoah National Park. This fawn was a delightful interruption to our reading your contest stories.
The Results Are In…Water Workshop and Spring Bird Migration Story and Photo Contests
You folks knocked it out of the ballpark this time. It would have been easier to assign ten first place awards than to assign one grand prize, one first place, one second place, etc. What was I...
Scavenger Hunt, August 2022
From the Editor’s Quill, August 2022: Contests
This issue was fun to compile, but a lot of work. Three contests finished May 31, and reviewing the submissions took a lot of time. These pages are full, yet we still have more of your stories to...
Invisibles, August 2022
A Week in the Woods
Water Workshop Grand Prize Woodland pond. Photo © Joanna Rufener. What goes on day and night at a calm, wooded pond in spring?It was a mystery to me, and this year I found out, thanks to Nature...
Spring Migration Photo Contest Grand Prize
Female Anna's Hummingbird. Photo © G. Allen Gustafson.
Spring Migration Photo Contest 1st Place
Northern Parula. Photo © Alva Steury Jr.
Spring Migration Photo Contest 2nd Place
Spring Migration Photo Contest 3rd Place
Cerulean Warbler. Photo © Melvern Martin.
Spring Migration Photo Contest Honorable Mentions
Least Bittern. Photo © Peter Shirk, 16. Barn Swallow. Photo © Alva Steury Jr. Rufous Hummingbird. Photo © Alvin Clair Auker. Great Blue Heron. Photo © Gabriel Schneider. Pileated Woodpecker. Photo ©...