I finally admitted to myself that I’ll never get a vehicle in our one-car garage again, so I might as well build shelving to make better use of the space. Weekends from the end of July to las…

Charlie and I visited the American Museum of Natural History today and went to a counter to change a dollar into some quarters for the smashed penny machine. The clerk asked, “Oh, do you want…

Living next to Blue Mountain Reservation, we regularly walk by and play in Dickey Brook. Beyond the crayfish and dace we see, I’ve been curious what else lives in there. The Big Apple Brook T…

Trying out a different approach to working beans into our meals during the week: Sunday afternoon I cooked a pound of alubia blanca beans on the stove and stuck them in the fridge so I can quickly …

I had a couple hours of unexpected free time early this afternoon and made it over to my favorite local wild trout stream. Even in the hottest part of the summer this small, shaded tailwater runs c…

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Today I fished the small headwaters of a stream I drive by daily that eventually empties into the Hudson River. When I say small, I mean small. The average depth of the section I fished on state la…

Charlie’s school had an Earth Day event today and I set up table on conserving brook trout, New York’s state fish, and the only trout native to the eastern US. I put together some stuff…

Yesterday I foraged some nice ramps out in the woods. I decided I’d make a spring pasta with them: I drove over to Tuscana Pasta, a local pasta maker here in Peekskill, and picked up some fre…

Celebrate Earth Day with books that share big ideas on conservation and also enrich our time in the natural world.

Five Books offers a wide variety of books on Iran: books on Iranian history; books on Iranian and Persian culture; books on Iran’s place in the world and Iran’s cuisine; even books and films on the…

For this week’s bean adventure, I made Charro Beans, or Frijoles Charros. I looked at multiple recipes and cobbled together my own, which I’ll attempt to put down in words here: 1lb dri…

Following my post containing the scans of Cecil Heacox’s 1969 Charmed Circle of the Catskills articles, Ed Ostapczuk emailed that Heacox did a follow up in the May 1972 edition of Outdoor Lif…

These Catskill streams are the birthplace of American dry fly fishing, and each has their own secrets — and giant trout.

I walked and fished the section of the Pocantico River running through Rockefeller Preserve to document disturbances with TU’s RIVERS app as part of the Big Apple Brook Trout program. Some ma…