I've raised baby possums, raccoons, skunks, robins, starlings, and great-horned owls. Which are the most cuddly and fun to be around? The answer may surprise you.
The gelatin that goes into Jello and similar products comes from sanitized, pulverized, boiled animal hooves. Animal hooves are largely made of keratin.
It was all over in a thump, a hiss, and a flash of feathers. What was going on? Join me as I try to solve a life-and-death drama staged one morning at our bird feeder.
I've been singing that Rodgers and Hammerstein lyric on bright, cheery mornings ever since I performed the song on stage in the second grade. But I ask myself: what makes a beautiful morning beautiful?
We measure babies by length, not height. The blue whale is the world's longest animal, or at least the longest one with a backbone. What's the longest tree?
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About All Things Natural with Ed Kanze
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"All Things Natural," Ed's weekly newspaper column, has been published continuously for a quarter century. It ran for 21 years in the Connecticut-based newspaper chain and today appears in the…
Bedford, NY Record-Review. Over the column's run, he has written over 1300 columns totaling nearly a million words. Ed's writings have been published in The Adirondack Explorer, Adirondack Life, Audubon, Birder's World, Bird Watcher's Digest, The Conservationist, Garden, Lake Life, Living Bird, Middlebury, National Parks, Reckon, Utne Reader, Vassar Quarterly, and Wildlife Conservation. He is a contributing editor at Bird Watcher's Digest and for thirteen years has written a column, “The Wild Side," for The Adirondack Explorer. He also teaches writing workshops for adults, seniors, and children. Ed, his wife, Debbie, and their children Ned and Tasman live on 18 acres along the Saranac River in New York's 6 million acre Adirondack Park.