Organic wooden spoon care. From the maker: “When caring for your wooden spoons, I thought the wood treatment should be clean enough to eat! This is why I designed my own wood polish. After…

When our children were small, my husband began mowing paths through our field, grassy lanes that allowed little legs to maneuver more easily through the landscape of home. Although those small…

Thank you for supporting Northern Woodlands. Your gift helps us raise awareness of the natural wonders and practical benefits of northeastern forests, and to recruit new generations of forest…

Are there any flowers more recognizable than roses? Even botanophobes recognize their fragrant blooms. Throughout history, they have represented dynasties and revolutions, worldly powers and spiritual…

Goldenrods in bloom are the Grand Central Station for insects. Some insects come in search of nectar, others for pollen, more for mates, and still others are predators for whom the diverse community…

Last October, in Weld, Maine, I hung from a rope in the canopy of a 41-year-old American chestnut tree on the property of author and naturalist Bernd Heinrich. The tree bore the scars of a honey…

A note from the editors: The Autumn 2023 issue of Northern Woodlands magazine includes a profile of George Calef, whose carvings of waterfowl and other birds have won numerous regional and national…

Between 85% and 95% of the dry weight of wood comes from photosynthesis, from sunlight and carbon dioxide. The first two blows bounce back as if nothing's happened but the third — if they…

This issue features Chestnuts, Managing for Carbon, Autumn Ice, Learning from Beavers, and much more! Order a copy of this issue or visit Subscription Services to subscribe to our quarterly magazine.…

Just as author Allaire Diamond and the Northern Woodlands editorial team were finishing work on the Autumn 2023 feature article, “Building Beaver Dam Analogs to Restore Watersheds,” an…

A caterpillar eats and eats, becomes a chrysalis, and after a period of metamorphosis emerges as a beautiful butterfly! Except, sometimes…it doesn’t quite work that way. Occasionally,…

This week in the woods, we found an especially pretty cluster of violet toothed polypore. This is a common bracket fungus distinguished by its purple edging and purple, porous underside (a.k.a. no…

I’ve known Terry Gulick long enough that my vegetable garden, which he once admired (not for its vegetables, but its volunteer crop of purslane), has gone to grass and begotten a 30-foot-tall…