View the October 2023 Nature Friend Magazine Tiger swallowtail on lilac. Photo © Faithe Delmore.
Plants & Fungi
Keep It Covered
View the October 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide One of the most important rules of gardening is to always be gardening. That doesn’t mean we need to keep ourselves in the garden every working day...
Favorite Focus, October 2023
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Pictures & Poems, September 2023
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Creation Close-ups, September 2023
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Alphabet Trees Word Search
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Weeds—How to Manage Them
View the August 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Mankind’s struggle with weeds is almost as old as life on earth. Since the very first man, almost all of those who have been involved in producing food...
Blooming Beauty
View the August 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Sunflowers. Photo © Erin Cogswell/Dreamstime.com. One amazing aspect of God’s creation is the system he designed for the reproduction of plants. For...
Pictures & Poems, July 2023
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Making Better Compost
View the July 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide With more attention to detail and a few extra tools, compost can be made fertilizer-grade where a little bit goes a long way. What we’re talking about...
Inspiration in a Gerbera Daisy
View the June 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Photo © Timothy Waldner. My sister is so sweet! She gave me a flower—one flower—but she had a special reason. In the summer, when I see a beautiful...
Making Good Compost
View the June 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Last month we looked at the limitations of poor quality compost, but don’t think for a minute that compost is something to be avoided. Composting is a...
A Nature Hike
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The Limitations of Poor-Quality Compost
View the May 2023 Nature Friend Study Guide Pick up any gardening magazine or book, and you are sure to soon come across the use of compost. Composting is a basic principle of gardening. In the...
In Search of Monarchs
View the May 2023 Nature Friend Magazine They say ignorance is bliss. In some ways, I wish I had never taken that summer evening walk.“Mom, could I head out and look for monarchs again?”I’d waited...
