2025

Christmas fern fiddleheads are not edible and can be toxic.

February’s Wild Edible: Fiddlehead Ferns

In decades and centuries past, settlers in these mountains consumed what they called the fiddleheads of ferns. But just what is a fiddlehead?
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Gratitude Personified

Well, perhaps canine-ified, but the message is the same.
Eli, Sam and Granddad prepare the chainsaw for a morning in the woods.

Gifts of the Land: Stewardship

The interplay of trees is a key to happy wildlife.
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From the Editor: The Hells of Helene

The superlatives are not the kind we like to see, but they are the ones that the remnants of Hurricane Helene delivered to portions of the southern Appalachians.

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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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