The Natural World
Who Reads Silverback Digest?
You are only as good as the company you keep, right? The ranks of Silverbacks are primarily self-selected. As a group I would describe ...
Turn Off Your Lights
The Perils of Bird Migration
By Brett Amy Thelen
One morning in early autumn, I was running errands in downtown Keene, New Hampsh...
Silverbacks Dads
Did Dads Evolve?
By Elizabeth Preston
This article was originally published at Knowable Magazine and has been republished under C...
Fawns
The Outside StoryAs Summer Wanes, Fawns Lose Their Spots
By Laurie D. Morrissey
I have often been stopped in my tracks by the sig...
Carbon Footprints
The Messy Truth About Carbon Footprints
September 9, 2021 by Sami Grover
How much attention should each of us be paying to our in...
Tunbridge World’s Fair
SB Sandy and I will be going to the Tunbridge World's Fair on Thursday. It was cancelled last year. This video was made in 2009, twelve...
Putting the Garden to Bed
Putting the Garden to Bed for Winter
by Margaret Haapoja
My enthusiasm for gardening wanes by autumn, and I long for the respite wi...
Try Some Maple Samaras
Maple’s Other Delicacy
by Meghan McCarthy McPhaul
Helicopters. Keys. Whirligigs. Samaras. Whatever you call the winged seeds rele...
Turn Our Prisons into Gardens
Kris LaMar is a Master Gardener and has been volunteering at the Coffee Creek Correctional Facility in Wilsonville in the ‘gardening’ c...
How to Write Good
Part III–Fall
Next year in the garden, as I pull weeds, I won't think that I coined the phrase "Nature abhors a vacuum." (Who did co...