Melinda’s Garden: Early Spring Prep for a Beautiful Summer Garden

As winter fades into spring, gardeners can’t wait to get busy in the garden. Pruning, cutting back perennials and ornamental grasses, and preparing the garden for spring planting are just a few of the tasks.

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The Beauty in Nature: Wooded Bottomland Hawks and Owls

Red-shouldered hawks and barred owls are interesting, handsome counterparts of each other; both species live and raise young in wooded bottomlands, often near bodies of water.

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The Beauty in Nature: Diverging Weasels

All members of the weasel family demonstrate that species in any family of wildlife diverge into a variety of habitats to take advantage of foods and shelter in each one. That diversion created the many kinds of weasels found throughout much of the world.

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Participants Needed for Master Watershed Steward Program

Penn State Extension and the Lebanon, Lancaster, and Dauphin County conservation districts are excited to launch the Master Watershed Steward Extension for the Lower Susquehanna.

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Melinda’s Garden: Grow Houseplants with Style and Convenience in Mind

It starts with one plant on a sunny windowsill and then morphs into an impenetrable jungle. You may feel you need a machete to reach each individual plant to water and tend.

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The Beauty in Nature: Crows and Geese at Shopping Malls

Late in the afternoon one day this past November, noisy multitudes of American crows and Canada geese were on a short-grass lawn behind a local shopping mall.

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The Beauty in Nature: When the Tide is Out

Earth’s oceans twice daily rise around the world like a “wave” of people at a sporting event because of the pull of our moon’s gravity.

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The Beauty in Nature: North American Jays

We’ve had blue jays in our yard for the more than 30 years I’ve lived at my home. Having blue feathering with black and white markings, blue jays are attractive and welcome on our lawn.

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The Beauty in Nature: October Farmland

Autumn reminds us that winter is coming, with its short daylight each day and cooling temperatures.

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