It’s harvest season and there are key ways to tell when produce is ready to pick. (Submitted photo)
“Ripe vegetables were magic to me. Unharvested, the garden bristled with possibility. I would quicken at the sight of a ripe tomato, sounding its redness from deep amidst the undifferentiated green.
Wild turkeys groups can be confusing in fall. Rafts, or rafters, the names used for turkey groups, are either mature males (gobblers) with or without younger males (jakes). Adult hens travel and feed with other hens and the poults (young birds) of the adult hens. The poults may be half the size of adult hens or as small at a quail.
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.
