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Our Favorite Facebook Photos: 7/25/14

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Beef Goulash

The Wannabe Chef: Skillet Beef Casserole

Salsa and chili powder add a Mexican flair to this beef goulash dish (and you can never go wrong with melted cheese).
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Our Favorite Facebook Photos: 7/18/14

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Thru-hiker Ron Tipton now oversees the  Appalachian Trail from Maine to Georgia.

Guest Column, Ron Tipton: Protecting the Appalachian Trail

Ron Tipton is Executive Director/CEO of the Appalachian Trail Conservancy.
The white flowers, clumped along the stem, are easy to miss. They expand into clusters of spiky scarlet seedpods containing ricin-laced “beans.”

Mountain Garden: Holy Moly! It’s a Castor Oil Plant

The plant’s poisonous seeds don’t preclude growing “something out of maurice sendak’s imagination.”

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Behind Blue Ridge Country

Even More Sweet Virginia Breezes

Casually cruising to Claytor Lake in southwest Virginia, I felt like I had come home – back to where it

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