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Oak Life Lesson: Coordination helps you breed with your neighbors & overload your hungry enemies. Bigger nuts are cool, but not best.

Edible or lethal plants. Comparing and admiring common camas with death-camas, and a few native plant relatives in the PNW.

Santa Claus may have all the ho’s, but it is the stoic oaks that draw the sapiosexuals to wrap an arm about their branch and light up their festive log. post oak draped in Spanish "moss", like a wizards beard Grand and stately or ambling and scruffy, oaks have a little something for anyone. And this cold and dreary time of year, we have a special something for your hearth too. The finest log to build upon a fiery symbol of rebellion against the longest nights. And let’s not

Ever go a little overboard on unique edible items because you wanted to know how they all compared? I feel like that's a pretty good way to "over do it" and splurge on occasion. Spoiling yourself with food is better than others. Long story short- I have entirely more honeys than I can know what to shack a stick at. I also may be experiencing a sugar high. There is something majestically and instinctively beautiful about nature's golden nectar. Why are we "all a buzz" fo