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Great Mountain Forest to host Nature Writing Retreat at Historic Yale Camp in Falls Village, Conn., Aug. 7 to 9

“The retreat brings people together, builds community in the forest, gets participants outside and off their screens, and uses nature sustainably to heal and inspire minds and souls,” stated Great Mountain Forest Executive Director Michael Zafros. Retreat registration closes on July 30.

NATURE’S TURN: Flowers and forage for mid-winter holidays

Forsythia, and many other woody stems. their winter buds fully formed, can be “forced” to flower any time after they have undergone freezing weather

NATURE’S TURN: Ready to spring

Every day it seemed that the alternation of warm days and freezing nights would end; nights would moderate, allowing the ground to thaw.

BOB GRAY: Mute tenacity

I wondered a few weeks earlier about a single forsythia twig blooming April-yellow in the depths of November.

The Self-Taught Gardener: The postman plants twice

There are two times of year when gardeners start thinking ahead. The first arrives in January when the seed catalogues show up; the second happens in early summer when bulb catalogs arrive.

NATURE’S TURN: Halfway to spring; Wild and domestic pleasures

Forcing plants to awake from winter dormancy well before their season is a wonderful experiment at home and in educational settings.
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