Posts by The Everyday Ecologist
Spring Things!
There are 3 spring initiatives coming up to encourage you to enjoy the season of renewal and support your love of the outdoors. First, Earth Day is on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. This year’s theme is “Our Power, Our Planet” encouraging collaboration world-wide around renewable energy so clean electricity can be tripled by 2030. What…
Read MoreNotes on Spring!
What are your favorite things about spring? Some of our favorite parts of spring are the sprouting of plants, like crocus and skunk cabbage. The sweet sound of the spring peepers (frogs) is another favorite of ours. You’ll typically hear the peepers in the early evenings. On spring’s warm(er), rainy nights, you might see these…
Read MoreMaple Syrup!
Are you ready for maple-sugaring season? In New England, late February and the entire month of March provides us with the perfect weather for the sweet treat of maple syrup. AND we want pure maple syrup on our pancakes, waffles, and French toast! The warm(er) days and the cold nights offer the best case scenario…
Read MoreHappy New Year! New Eco-Books!
What eco-books are you reading in 2025? We have a few that we are excited about! Our first must-look is A Natural History of Empty Lots by Christopher Brown. Learn how even the ugliest places can be full of resources, learning, and beauty. Another must-read is Sy Montgomery’s chronicle of her work rehabilitating turtles in…
Read MoreAutumn is here!
Autumn started officially in the Northern Hemisphere on Sunday, September 22nd, 2024. Bring on the pumpkins, apples, spooky stories, fire pits, colorful leaves, and harvest dinners. Here are some books we like for the change of seasons. We like to look at all aspects of the tree – seeds, bark, leaves, and Seeing Trees’ amazing…
Read MoreEncouraging Pollinators!
What might you do to encourage pollinators in your yard and community? Pollinators include all kinds of creatures, like bees, butterflies, bats, dragonflies, beetles, hummingbirds, moths, wasps, flies, and some small mammals. Pollinating creatures are important because they pollinate the plants which grow the food we eat. Additionally, as Pollinator.org indicates the pollinators “support healthy…
Read MoreSummer is Soon
What fun things do you have on your idea list for the summer? We enjoy lots of different activities during the summer, such as, canoeing/kayaking, hiking forested trails, swimming, walking in the woods, identifying trees, playing with our dogs, nature journaling, collecting shells and rocks at the beach, volunteering, biking, cloud-watching, stargazing, and much more.…
Read MoreArbor Day!
“I feel a great regard for trees; they represent age and beauty and the miracles of life and growth.” ― Louise Dickinson Rich (1903-1991) Celebrate Arbor Day this year! National Arbor Day is always celebrated on the 4th Friday of April. This year it falls on Friday, April 26, 2024. Arbor Day was started in…
Read MoreSolar Eclipse
Explore Safely. Today, Monday, April 8, 2024, a solar eclipse will appear across Mexico, the United States, and Canada. A solar eclipse occurs when the moon blocks any part of the sun. A path from Texas to Maine will show the the eclipse in totality (where the moon completely blocks out the sun). NASA, the…
Read MoreBirds!
Spring is almost here and it’s time to learn more about birds!
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