Author Archives: hw7

(Click on the following link to lsten to an audio version of this blog … House Cat Day 2025 Twelve years ago I wrote about Groundhog Day and suggested that we change this early February day-of-prediction to focus not on … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog … Gardens and Urban MiniFarms Part 2 Last week I talked about the unexpectedly high carbon cost of urban mini-farms and gardens compared to commercial agricultural … Continue reading →

(Click here to listen to an audio version of this blog …. Gardens and urban farms A paper published earlier this year in the journal Nature Cities (January 22, 2024) compared the carbon footprint of urban farming to that of … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog … What’s in the kitchen The numbers used to describe the bacteria communities in, on, and around human beings are staggering!  There are between three and … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog ….Lory State Park Lory State Park is about 20 miles northwest of where I live in Greeley . There are, though, no straight roads connecting the … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog … What can a toddler teach us about life and living Being a grandparent has been one of the highlights of Deborah’s and my lives. There … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog … Octopuses lead the way Octopuses (Phylum Mollusca, Class Cephalopoda) are acknowledged to be extremely intelligent. Intelligence in animals is measured in many ways, but high … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog  … More that just honey bees The western honey bee (Apis mellifera) is a product of specialized selection, breeding and domestication by human beings. The bee’s … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog …. Bees in the changing climate Bees have been, by far, the most frequent subject of my short essays on this blog site. Since 2006, I … Continue reading →

(Click on the following link to listen to an audio version of this blog …. Lets all fall behind Last weekend we changed back over to Standard Time. This “fall behind” change in our clocks does nothing to alter the … Continue reading →