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An orange and black butterfly hangs upside down from a round and pick flowering plant.

Caterpillars in the Kitchen

By Samantha Kinsman on Sep. 27, 2016

When my sister and I were young, we used to take monarch caterpillars into our care and raise them to butterflies. It was a complicated project, usually headed by my sister, that involved finding and collecting teeny tiny monarch eggs on common milkweed plants, monitoring the eggs until they…

Marsh Grace - Elegant Simplicity

By Alyssa Nyberg on Jul. 29, 2016

Rain soaked and exhausted, I stand at the edge of a wetland. My hair is plastered to my face, my shirt is askew, and my jeans are heavy with water and mud. At this moment, I am far from the epitome of “marsh grace”. But the short green plant before me, Eleocharis obtusa, is exactly “marsh grace”…

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