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I came across this cool WoodGas Camp Stove in my online travels the other day. It’s a portable stove that doesn’t need white gas, propane or other non-environmental fuels, but burns any kind of combustible organic matter you can feed it. Grass, twigs, sticks, pine cones, you name it.
The WoodGas Camp Stove is essentially [...]

Memorial Day weekend was fun-filled and chock-full of nature. And we even managed to find some time to relax.
On Monday, our friends from Dorchester came up for a visit. We took them for a walk around the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island in Newbury, Mass. We were not allowed on the beach [...]

As many who read our blog have guessed, we use an opensource blog system called Wordpress. Before we decided to install a version of it on our site, we did a little shopping around and found that it was quite easy to use and it received great recommendations.
We’ve been using it about a year now [...]

A mentor of mine would often talk about an online niche publishing website that he helped to develop called Reel-Time. At the time of its founding, it was ahead of its time. A saltwater fly-fishing website that directed its focus to a micro-niche community when the Internet was just beginning to find its legs as [...]

Philly.com recently reported that Active Interest Media purchased Backpacker magazine from Rodale for an undisclosed amount of money. Active Interest Media is known for publishing enthusiast books, magazines, holds consumer shows and operates Web sites within niche or “enthusiast” markets.
Along with Backpacker magazine, it’s Web site Backpacker.com will also be part of the sale.
I’ve been [...]

Saying that it was a busy weekend at our house would be an understatement. A more accurate statement would be that it was a tornado of gardening and home improvement.
On Saturday, a friend and I removed six yew shrubs from the front yard. It took two men six-and-a-half hours in the rain on Saturday. It [...]

Randye here with another “exciting” bird sighting! I was sitting at my computer this morning, when “BANG!” — something bounced off my window and fell to the porch roof below. Lo and behold, there was this tiny and very dazed little bird.
Excited, I grabbed for my camera, only to find the batteries dead. So I [...]

Two friends and I spent Saturday hiking Mt. Monadnock. And we couldn’t have asked for a more beautiful day to do it.
The skies were sunny, with small wisps of clouds here and there, and the temperature hovered in the mid 70s. To top it off, there were pleasant breezes in the lower altitudes and a [...]

A frightening and awesome display of nature unfolded in Homer, Alaska, in the front yard of an Alaskan couple recently, when an Alaskan brown bear attacked and killed an adult female moose. The brown bear, which shares the distinction of being the largest in the bear family with the polar bear, ate only the heart [...]

It seems our neighbors got a little taste of their own aviary medicine.
To help raise more money for the Amesbury high school band, we purchased a flock-back. Our neighbors, who flocked us this past fall, got a quick lesson in the migratory patterns of the elusive band flamingo, when a flamboyance of pink flamingoes spent [...]