Courtesy of the National Park Service Being in nature can change you. Sleeping and eating outside, far away from roads and stores and houses, forces us to unplug, reset, and notice the beauty that’s all around us. But while you’re soaking in all the benefits of getting outdoors, it’s important that you don’t change nature right back. Conservation experts will …
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I love to cook, and I love to eat. I got started gardening in the vegetable garden more than 70 years ago, in part because everyone I knew loved to eat homegrown vegetables – raw in the garden, fresh in the kitchen, or cooked for dinner. I’d pull a carrot and rinse it off with a hose – or just …
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Immediately after I completed my horticultural training back in the mid-1970s, I took a job restoring, as best I could, a beautiful old estate on the Palisade cliffs of the Hudson River. Designed by the Olmsted Brothers, the successor to the firm founded by the co-designer of New York’s Central Park, Frederick Law Olmsted, it had once been a showplace, …
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Preparing a snack for guests while guiding on the Rim-to-Rim trail in Grand Canyon National Park. Karne Snickers One of the most visited national parks in the US is the Grand Canyon National Park, with nearly five million visitors per year. Of those millions of tourists, only about five percent dip below the rim and broaden their exploration. Further, of …
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