With this being the first week of autumn, it seems appropriate to talk about an autumn fruit. Not the iconic New England apple, but rather an invasive small tree with the common name "autumn olive" ...

It’s a crisp autumn morning, and the forest trail glows with golden light filtering through turning leaves. Naturalist-led groups gather along woodland paths to talk about seed pods, bark textures, ...

The ground that my wife Ginny and I started with in 1976 to build our home was a bare cornstubble field entailing 10 acres at the back of my parents’ farm. A top priority was to establish wildlife ...