Drive-through Library
Some dogs know that if they bark when their owners pull up in the car they're riding in at the drive-through window of the Worthington [Read More…]
Category: ANIMALS
Bee boys skeptical about flow hives
Bee Boy Ryan Williamson is happy for any technology advancement that raises the profile of beekeeping but has reservations about the so called flow hive [Read More…]
52 paws delight nursing home residents
Marjorie Shoemaker brings her "Paws of the Spirit," to nursing homes and other venues. Her passel of animals include an easygoing white Labrador retriever service [Read More…]
Hog Island Highlights and Humor
Your correspondent volunteered in the kitchen for two weeks this summer at the Audubon Society's nature camps on Hog Island, some skipping stones length off [Read More…]
New composting toilets at Andorra
Elizabeth Fink has been using the new composting toilets near the Wissahickon Environmental Center (formerly Andorra Tree House) at the northwestern edge of Fairmount Park, [Read More…]
She wrangles millipedes and beetles
A thousand little legs locomote along the slender hands of an Academy of Natural Sciences educator. Her painted fingernails are brown and shiny just like [Read More…]
Mondays without meat
At the Chestnut Hill Fall for the Arts Festival, a Humane Society advocate asked people to try going “meatless” on Mondays as a step toward [Read More…]
Hog Island Audubon Camp Journal 2014
Your correspondent volunteered for a week cleaning dishes and bathhouses at the Audubon Society Camp on Hog Island off of Bremen, Maine. He collected an [Read More…]
Eating energy bars made from crickets
Weavers Way Food Coop has introduced a new line of energy bars – ones made with crickets. On Tuesday, staff members at the Chestnut Hill [Read More…]
Costumed horses parade at NW Stables
SLIDE SHOW Horses, riders and spectators got in the Halloween spirit on Sunday at the Northwestern Stables Haunted Horses Costume Parade and Open House. Your [Read More…]