Mushrooms are interesting. At a glance, fungi may look similar to plants, but they are their own separate kingdom, neither plant nor animal. Fungi actually share more things in common with animals, both in the chemical materials that cells are made of but also because fungi eat rather than ...
Gardeners, your hard work is over. After spending months with hands in the soil, tools shifting weeds, and wondering when the next rain is going to come, the fruits (and vegetables) of your labor are now ready to be harvested. The harvest is one we all celebrate in the autumn months, including ...
Visual art, whether through photography or painting and drawing, allows one to capture a single moment in time and share it with someone else. Art depicting nature is no exception and invites you to explore the natural world through another’s eyes. Personally, I find that nature through ...
As the seasons continue their transition from summer to fall, organisms are following these cues and making their own changes. Fall is a time of transition and a time of cycles. Not a new concept, but one worth looking at a little closer. We learn this idea that things in nature are ...
“I’m bored,” is a statement I rarely hear a child say during the Audubon summer camp season. In part, this is because we have a plethora of engaging activities for children, but most importantly, we allow children to fully enter a state of imagination in play. When children are ...
Late summer can be characterized by many things in nature. The temperature starts falling, days get shorter, the first tinges of color appear on leaves, trees are weighed down with ripening fruit, and my favorite, the Jewelweed seeds begin to, literally, explode. Jewelweed is a common ...
