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Here’s What’s Cooking in Rosalie Parker’s Kitchen
Congratulations to our Week Four Reader’s Kitchen Winner, Rosalie Parker! Learn a little about our winner and get her featured recipes!
Snow days and sledding miracles
Two fat sparrows sit in the trough of a bird feeder outside my office window and eat their way through today’s snowstorm. Six feet away, a squadron of chickadees does touch-eat-and-goes on a second feeder. In the snow below, a plump dove dines on the sorghum scattered by the unmannered sparrows. As I sip my
Make some campfire memories this summer
Summer cookouts and campfires make great memories, so take time to enjoy the experience.
Project SNOWstorm for the snowy owls
Back in December, I described an invasion of snowy owls from the arctic to temperate latitudes. Hundreds of these impressive white birds have been reported from the east coast to Minnesota. I suspect that never have so many birders seen a rare life bird in such a short time span. Similar habitats Because snowy owls
Daisy finds one playin’ possum
A few years ago on a cold winter night, Daisy, my yellow Lab, and I took a walk in the woods after a snow storm. Daisy enjoyed plowing through the ankle-deep snow with her nose. At one point she wallowed in the snow the way she rolls in mud holes in the spring. As we
Manure management takes time, preplanning and lots of management
What to do with livestock manure is a hot issue in Ohio in light of an increasing number of large livestock farms around the state.
Have a merry every day
As I write this the tree it twinkling, the cookies are soon to be baking, and I am slowly freaking out as I make a list and check it twice
What is sustainable agriculture, really?
Writing Dirt on Conservation articles is a rewarding task that all the soil and water staff members who write take seriously. We all want the readers to know what we do, how we do it and who we do it with. My problem is coming up with a topic that hasn’t already been covered and
H2Ohio budget challenges not over
The H2Ohio program is continuing to face budget challenges due to the pandemic. In the mean time, researchers say solving Lake Erie’s water quality problems will require long-term investments and work to reduce nutrient runoff. And some are suggesting that phosphorus built up in soil, rather than phosphorus from new fertilizer applications, might play a bigger role in those problems than previously thought.
Just one more cast
Crystal Conaway reflects on the lessons her father taught her, which have shaped her career at Jefferson Soil and Water Conservation District in Ohio.
