It’s been a warm, windy weekend with lots of deer and turkeys in the fields. Continue reading →

I’ve been trying to digest all the things I heard at the prairie conference, and I’ve decided I should write some of them down so they could possibly be useful. Continue reading →

While hunting for seeds, I found a cool new plant – not at the farm – along the roadside in Pierce County. Continue reading →

A weekend of seed collecting and lots of night creatures.

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All the cecropia caterpillars have made their cocoons now – the last one finished on Saturday. Continue reading →

Just before dawn we heard what sounded like claws scrabbling on the siding outside our bedroom. Continue reading →

The cocoon got much more opaque after the first day.
Now I can’t see the caterpillar at all, and the cocoon has turned brown. Continue reading →

Yesterday the largest of the caterpillars started wandering around the cage. I suspected it was ready to find a place to make its cocoon, so I put some bare sticks around the edges of the cage – but it decided it liked the bars of the cage better. Continue reading →

The conference was in Madison from Monday until Thursday last week. It was very interesting – I’m still trying to organize all the ideas I had and the things I learned. Continue reading →

They’re getting bigger. Continue reading →