Review: nature’s best hope

I've just finished reading Douglas W. Tallamy's Nature's Best Hope, and I closed the book feeling inspired and motivated to walk my property and make a plan for adding a large variety of natives to support our local ecosystem. My general feeling is that, if a book leaves you wanting to do something, do more, …

Spring Terrarium – Praying Mantises

My kids wanted to collect snails this week to observe in our terrarium. The stick they chose to put in for leaves just so happened to have a mantis egg sac attached! It took less than a week for the babies to make their appearance, and we happened to be checking on the snails when …