Mammals

Covers, June 2025

Covers, June 2025

June highlights: an adorable fawn, and beautiful rhododendrons!

Let’s Take a Hike ~ Summer

Let’s Take a Hike ~ Summer

Come along with me on a summer outing. We’ll drive up to our mountain forest and pasture land…

Exploring Nature, May 2025

Exploring Nature, May 2025

View the full issue in the Magazine Archive Visit vernal pools and listen to the various species of frogs and toads. Watch their vocal sacs. Look for tadpoles developing. Take a wildflower hike and...

Dealing with Deer

Dealing with Deer

When I began gardening on my own over a decade ago, I never imagined that my greatest difficulty in achieving a harvest would be the herds of beautiful white-tailed deer that rambled through our farm…

Caption This Fox

Caption This Fox

Submit your favorite caption for these playful red fox pups!

Ransacked!

Ransacked!

Someone or something seemed to be sabotaging our efforts to create an arrangement of colorful flora. Yesterday, my brother’s petunias had vanished, and today, my sister’s violets were the victims. So far, my flowerpot had remained untouched—but for how long?