Winter Backyard Bingo
Back by popular demand, we offer a winter edition of Backyard Bingo! This scavenger hunt bingo experience can get the whole family outside for an afternoon of learning and adventure.
Nature Nugget: A fondness for ferns
The fiddleheads we savor in spring are the young, coiled up leaves of the ostrich fern, a tall, graceful fern common along rivers and in moist, rich upland forests. They appear in bottomlands in late April, and they last only a few short weeks. Once the fiddleheads have come unfurled, as most have by now, the leaves are bitter and are no longer good to eat.
#StayGroundedVT Round Up – May 2020
There all kinds of ways for Vermonters to stay grounded during this pandemic…. Al Karnatz, who works in the Champlain region, seems to be practicing a new form of social distancing. And yes, he reported that there were plenty of bugs in there.
Nature Nugget: This Bivalve Thrives in Seasonal Woodland Pools
Fingernail clams, freshwater relatives of oysters and mussels, lives in Vermont’s forests alongside fairy shrimp and salamanders.
Nature Nugget: Carnivorous Sundew Plant Often Robbed of its Catch
Carnivorous plants like sundew inhabit peatlands, but relations with their six-legged neighbors can be… sticky.
