Nodding wild onion can provide fresh green onions long after garden greens are brown. Sometimes into autumn.
Now in bloom and true bulbs, thumb size, are underneath, but not too deep. Probably best used fresh but the bulbs should keep dried and retain most of the flavor.
If May’s morel searches were a fungal flop, now is a time to make up for lost opportunities.
Sulphur shelf mushrooms, a bright orange almost hunter orange fungus, is now fruiting from oak and cherry logs, stumps and decomposing roots. This fungus always fruits above ground.
The largest frog in North America lives right here in southwest Wisconsin. It’s a bully, too, with a voice that can be heard on a calm night, up to a quarter mile away.
Because of its size, the larger ones in a population can, and do, take birds, snakes, crayfish and minnows.
Brenda Devita delivers a keynote address to the Sauk County Institute of Leadership. (Photo by Kurt Wegner)
On Thursday, July 13, the Sauk County Institute of Leadership (SCIL) held its annual SCIL Connect Networking Lunch at the University of Wisconsin-Platteville Baraboo-Sauk County campus.
Ring-necked pheasants are not native to Wisconsin, or even U.S. They are native to China and other parts of Asia and were introduced to other parts of the world, including North America.
Sauk County’s Parks and Recreation Department is starting up its Movies at the Park series.
The first showing will feature “Shrek” at 8 p.m. July 22. Screenings take place outdoors at White Mound County Park, S79995 White Mound Drive, Hillpoint.
“Shrek” is rated PG and runs for one hour and 30 minutes.
