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How to compost with leaves
Pound for pound, the leaves of most trees contain twice as many minerals as manure. Learn to build a compost pile with the ones you rake up this fall.
How to ID common feeder birds
Identifying common backyard birds is relatively simple by using a step-by-step procedure.
Getting ready for birding in the spring season
Last week I did my best to think spring by suggesting that it was time to put up a few nest boxes for cavity-nesting birds such as eastern bluebirds, tufted titmice, Carolina wrens, and chickadees. This week it’s time for the next step despite a forecast for more severe winter weather. It will warm up
How to rid your home of drafts
Drafts are often small cracks around windows and doors, but there are many other places where drafts can form. Knowing some of the less visible spots where drafts come from may help you to seal out unwanted cold air more effectively.
What do snowflakes really look like? (Photos)
What do snowflakes really look like? The perfectly symmetrical snowflakes often shown in photographs are actually quite rare.
Retired Jitterbug lived a long, exciting life
Retired now, a gray and white Jitterbug bass lure keeps a faded eye on things from a wall in my office, a safe place and a retirement the battered lure earned the hard way. I bought the lure in Canada, a functional vacation gift from my dad. We were spending a week in a mouse-infested
These weighty issues
I am currently having an argument with my thighs. They didn’t use to irritate me, but lately, they’ve been on my last nerve. I recently came to the conclusion that, contrary to my popular belief, everyone I know had not stealthily outfitted their cameras with a wide-angle and extra chin lens just for me. Nor
Twinsberry Tree Farm is a ‘People’s Choice’
Years of experience paying off for Shreve, Ohio, tree farm and forestry business.
Some days are meant to last forever
Someone — my great-grandfather, my grandmother, my dad, someone — told me how fathers announced the upcoming wedding of their daughters more than a century ago in the small, southern Illinois farming community where I was raised. The story goes like this: After a wedding date was set, the bride’s father saddled his finest horse
Can your animals make you sick? Illness can go both ways
LONDON, Ohio — Hollywood likes to promote the myth that humans are always the “victims” when it comes to diseases transmitted between animals and humans, referred to as zoonotic diseases. But in reality, the illnesses can pass either direction, said Armando Hoet, director of the Veterinary Public Health Program within Ohio State University’s College of
