Would you like to give your child a truly remarkable gift this summer? How about a memorable outdoor experience in an informal and truly unique educational setting; an experience that enhances life-skills, stimulates interest, and challenges his or her abilities through training, education ...

It’s going to rain. Can you smell it? Being able to smell rain as it approaches isn’t something imagined. There really can be a distinctly heady aroma in the air before it rains. And it’s a smell that I’ve always found calming. In fact, there are several clean, earthy, ...

Northern New York is often recognized as a great place to live, work and raise a family. We’re fortunate enough to call the Adirondack Park, Lake Champlain, the St. Lawrence Seaway, and the farms and forests of the northern tier home. World-class downhill and cross-country skiing, golf ...

Brood X is coming. In fact, by many accounts the invasion has already begun. The emergence of Magicicada septendecim, a species of 17-year periodical cicadas, the largest periodical emergence of insects on Earth. Periodical cicadas are large, fat, dark brown flying insects averaging ...

It’s spring, and after months of being locked down, people are getting outside again. Just a reminder, though: The longer, warmer days of April are also the start of tick season, the peak of which lasts through August. Ticks commonly overwinter by “nesting” in groups, taking refuge ...

Coffee may very well be the world’s most widely traded tropical agricultural commodity. It’s certainly one of them. Twenty to twenty-five million families around the world make their living growing coffee. And by most estimates, more than 2.25 billion cups of coffee are consumed ...