How to Befriend Sweater-Wearing Worms

These caterpillars can help you become a weather-predicting crone

Mar 25 • Nicole Garner Meeker

Forget Birds — It's Tree-Watching Season

It's the perfect time of year to make a new friend (spoiler: it’s a tree)

Mar 23 • Nicole Garner Meeker

Watercolor Wilds: How to Spend Spring's Rainy Days Inspired

Artist Abigail Richardson challenges you to be like water and go with the flow

Mar 23 • Nicole Garner Meeker

Weeds, Weeds, Weeds: ID These Scraggly Leaves in Your Backyard

A fresh look at a few so-called "annoyances"

Mar 23 • Nicole Garner Meeker

December 2025

December 2025: Winter's Arrival

These darker days are for the starlings, juncos, cardinals... and you.

Dec 9, 2025 • Nicole Garner Meeker

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Finding Friends Where the Wild Fowl Fly

Bay Area birder Paige Pritchard explains how bird watching can help you make friends (particularly those without feathers)

Dec 4, 2025 • Nicole Garner Meeker

November 2025

November 2025: Ahoy, Autumn!

Pause the holiday music — there's so much of autumn left to enjoy.

Nov 7, 2025 • Nicole Garner Meeker

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There Goes The Sun (and It'll Be Alright)

A few tips for surviving the colder months when SAD creeps up

Nov 7, 2025 • Nicole Garner Meeker

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Foraging Guide: Persimmons

Are these fruit rotten? No, they're really supposed to look like that!

Nov 7, 2025 • Nicole Garner Meeker

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October 2025

October 2025: Ye Olden Autumn

It feels like we’re going back in time... why not lean into it?

Oct 7, 2025 • Nicole Garner Meeker

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Foraging Guide: Walnuts

A-tisket, a-tasket, find these walnuts for your basket.

Oct 1, 2025 • Nicole Garner Meeker

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Spending Time With Dead Folks May Be The Best Thing You Do Outside in October

There's a serious case for spending time in cemeteries while you're still above ground.

Oct 1, 2025 • Nicole Garner Meeker

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