Here’s the buzz on Australian Bees

This country has so many beautiful places such as South Florida’s Everglades. Such places should be respected and protected and enjoyed. Each beautiful place has its own unique place in ecology and each needs its own “friends.” The thing is that government can’t do everything. We must all do our part. That means private landowners…

While it’s challenging to be “trapped” quarantining, it’s also a blessing. We’ve been able to spend time hiking and bird watching on the Cumberland Plateau. As Cumberland bird observers, we have noticed that there are so many birds on the farm. With that knowledge, we have been diligently working to create habitat for native and…

Coal Creek Farm is special. Over the years we’ve learned a lot about the tension between economic viability and environmental enhancement. We’ve learned that while you sometimes have to choose, more often they are complementary. In the last few weeks a group of people, environmentalists, landowners, government, non-profit and education have successfully closed an effort…

You know how I love paddling with my family, but in the last few years I’ve come to appreciate just how hard it is to protect these precious places. At the end of the Ken Burns series on the national parks, the point was made that every generation will have to choose to protect the…

If you live in Florida, you know that fire ants are bad, bad news. They are particularly bad news for the ground-nesting Florida Grasshopper Sparrow. There’s some good news for the Sparrow, too. Though endangered, scientists have raised and released 100 chicks into the wild. Fire ants have made their way to the Cumberland Plateau;…