by Becky Cushing I’m not a geologist, but recently I learned a thing or two about Vermont bedrock that bumps it above maple syrup or cheese on Vermont’s “Best of” List. By nature, I ask a lot of questions: What trees are those? How deep is this soil? What bird lives in that nest? Turns [...]
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Rock: The Best Thing about Vermont
Posted in Earth Science, tagged Becky, calcium carbonate, dolostone, Gleason Brook, Vermont on October 31, 2011 | 9 Comments »
Chicken of the Woods
Posted in Discoveries, tagged Becky, Centennial Woods, fungi, kidney failure, mushrooms, tastes like chicken, wild edibles on September 24, 2011 | Comments Off
by Becky Cushing Frog legs, rabbit, octopus, sea lamprey: Tastes just like chicken. But a mushroom? That might take some convincing. Purple toadstools dot moist ground. Tiny aliens emerge from rotting wood. A stalk shoots from leaf litter on the forest floor. Like Alice’s Wonderland, the damp woods in and around Burlington are splattered with [...]