Being from central Ohio, kudzu didn’t make a blip on my radar until I drove from Columbus to Hilton Head in September 2009. While my vacationing cohorts were sleeping or rocking out to “I Gotta Feeling” on the radio, I was engrossed in the strange greenery that had engulfed the roadsides along highways in Virginia… [Read more…]
November 6, 2010
by Felice Forby
Every year there’s a “family” of praying mantises that appear on the bushes in front of my dad’s house in southern Ohio (that is, until the bushes were chopped down, but that’s a whole other story). Two of them were moved to the “White Family Garden” and employed as natural pest managers. This summer, I… [Read more…]
October 28, 2010
by Felice Forby
Curds, preserves and conserves. Jellies, jams and marmalades. Simply speaking, these are all concoctions consisting of fruits mashed up and sweetened in one way or another. All one and the same, right? Not quite. So what exactly is the difference? Well, I just happened to run across an expert to answer my question– the appropriately… [Read more…]
October 19, 2010
by ohiochelle
Last winter, my parents – Richard and Carolyn White – informed me they had decided to tear down the pool in their backyard. It had been an unseasonably cool summer in 2009 and my dad felt the 15-foot plastic circle holding roughly 6600 gallons of water was wasting space. Hardly anyone had parted its chlorinated blue waters in… [Read more…]
September 6, 2010
by Felice Forby
So, what exactly is Environmental Soup? You could say it’s like a warm bowl of mixed vegetable stew – lots of color, lots of flavor, and preferably made with local farmers’ market veggies. Each article and entry will add new flavors and textures to the environmental soup stock. In other words, we’ll be writing on… [Read more…]
December 18, 2010
by ohiochelle
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