March 2021

Dandelions make a good – and healthy – base for spring salads.

March’s Wild Edible: Dandelions

Gardeners often swear at them, and green lawn lovers typically nuke them with poisonous sprays. But dandelions are also important wildlife food, a boon for early spring pollinators - and a superb health food!
This is one of the earliest photos of the hiking oddity; four years in, in 2008, Matthew and Aden had just turned six--they'll graduate from high school this year. Good dawg Fluff left us about 8 years ago.

17th Annual Return to Site of First Hike

Hikes for January/February 2021

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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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