Good Food from Happy Soil. Sustainable agriculture and nature conservation.
By Debra Shore.
Down & Dirty: Comparing Soil Samples
Chefs and Restaurants Promoting Food
from Local Organic Sources
Local Organically Raised Trout Recipe

Calumet BioBlitz
Twenty-four hours of feverish study — to find and catalog bugs, birds, and the rest of creation. By Don Parker.

Discovering the Inner Naturalist
On the Trail of the Cuckoo in Cuba Marsh.
By Nancy Shepherdson

The Vision of Ecological Democracy
By J. Ronald Engel

Chicago's Park Revival
By David Cohen

Gray Treefrog: Master of Camouflage

Eastern Milk Snake: Quintessential Savanna Serpent

New spider found in Swallow Cliff Woods.

Look for baby snakes and black-eyed susans in early autumn; hawks soaring later on; and in late fall, the rare barn owl.

Helm Woods, Spears Woods, Spring Creek Valley Forest Preserve, and Sterne's Woods and Fen. Plus maps and links to preserve profiles from previous issues.

Lyman Woods Forest Preserve
DuPage County, Illinois

Droplets of Unrequited Nectar. By Stephen Packard.