The Joyce Road Neighborhood

With the passing of the fall equinox and a couple of mornings at 34°F, it's time to dig up this year's crop of sweet potatoes. Be...

Grandson Reed is now ten years old and his father made him a special birthday gift to celebrate his first decade. Since Reed is starting ...

While looking for edible mushrooms I found several "Fairy Rings" in the woods behind our house. A fairy ring, also known as fai...

Checking the game cameras at our West Hill property this weekend. It's not unusual for me to get bear photos with game cameras, but t...

During the summer I've been documenting the development of a yearling buck's first set of antlers. It was easy to identify this y...

I noticed a large, white, fuzzy mass at the base of a walnut tree at our barn. The fussy mass was a grathering of walnut caterpillars (Da...

As we move into the fall, the days are getting shorter and the nights are getting cooler. It's time to prepare for the winter heating...

This summer's changing weather has made foraging wild edible mushrooms difficult. The hot/dry conditions in the early summer slowed...

We planted four potato varieties in our garden this year; Russet, Red, White, and Fingerlings. All four varieties did very good, but so...

It's almost Labor Day and this year's garden is starting to produce lots of ripe tomatoes ... The tomatoes are big ... ...

I recently had some road work done on a cabin property ATV trail. Yesterday I noticed a flock of turkeys in this area as I graded the tra...

As this summer is winding down it's time to take grandson Reed and his cousins Liam and Neva on a field trip to Penn's Cave in Ce...

Over the last fifteen years bat populations have dropped by up to 98% in some areas mostly due to white-nose syndrome, a fatal fungal dis...

A few years ago we remodeled our bathroom and then repurposed the old cast iron bathtub as a watering trough for wildlife at our West Hil...

Grandson Reed has a fascination with penguins... So his dad arranged a penguin encounter for him at The Wild Animal Park in Chitta...