The gift of good reading for gardeners
Garden books and magazines have been some of my best friends over the course of my career in the outdoors. See four suggestions from 2014 that may please the gardeners on your list and you, too. More.
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Landscape practices reduce the odds of tick bites
I've talked with people who hesitate to go outside, worried about getting a tick bite. Researchers from the Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station (CAES) have investigated the problem for years. Here's my 2014 interview with Dr. Kirby Stafford III, a leading tick researcher at CAES. If you have trouble with the link, please download the PDF below. (Also, find a link to a 2021 podcast with Dr. Thomas Mather at TickEncounter Research Center, below.)
