botany

HUNT : Jennifer Klaiber submitted a note to The Era sharing her experience completing the 2021 Super Summer Scavenger Hunt by the Pennsylvania Magazin...

About 1,000 pounds of Pennsylvania ginseng, a wild-growing plant with a range of medicinal uses ascribed to it, are gathered and sold every year, acco...

There are times we love to recall, days so special, when everything comes together like a well written play, perfect and unblemished. In the hunting w...

ST. MARYS — This year’s fall festival in St. Marys is taking place with a new name and in a new location — Fall Fest at the Downtown Event Park on Dep...

Archery hunting is rushing upon us and will be here before you can say, “Is it really this Saturday? You’re kidding!” Time is flying by, as it always ...

Although many homeowners have reported a greatly diminished population of the spotted lanternfly around their properties, the invaders from Asia known...

JAMESTOWN, N.Y. – Children aged 3-8 years old are invited to learn about Seeds, Nuts and Berries with the Audubon Little Explorers group on Saturday, ...

TAR SPOT: Tar spot, a fungal leaf disease, was positively identified in a cornfield in Lancaster County this week. First discovered in Pennsylvania in...

NORWICH TOWNSHIP — The McKean County Master Gardeners invite the public to visit their gardens and meadow area at the Donald J. Comes Natural Resource...

AIRVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Pennsylvania fishermen like Russ Collins are worried about trees. He lives in Palmyra, Lebanon County, and is the vice president ...

Many ginseng collectors plant seeds of the endangered medical herb in the Pennsylvanian forests where they collect it, but that could have both positi...

HARRISBURG — The Center for Rural Pennsylvania held a virtual public hearing on the negative impact of invasive species in Pennsylvania on Tuesday. Jo...

ROOTWORM: The Penn State Extension offered some planting and bug tips as the growing season locally winds down. With rootworm adults emerging from cor...

CONTROL ANNUAL WEEDS: The Penn State Extension has provided some helpful tips for controlling summer weeds before the seeds set, where possible. Preve...

HARRISBURG – The Center for Rural Pennsylvania, chaired by Sen. Gene Yaw, will hold a virtual public hearing at 10 a.m. on Tuesday to examine the impa...

As they sat around a kitchen table sorting thousands of strips of cloth, the volunteers for the Creative Women’s Workshop at Crook Farm made light of ...

It’s berry picking time again. The very warm weather of early summer, adequate sun and 2020’s timely rains have produced a remarkably sweet blueberry ...

ZIPPO ‘SIGHTING’: Era reader Terry Palmer submitted the following tidbit from Sirius XM 60’s radio heard recently. “Steve Cropper, session guitarist f...

HARRISBURG (TNS) — Running buffalo clover, a perennial plant native to parts of the eastern U.S. and once thought to be extinct, now has been pronounc...

A yearly Open Garden Walk will take place at Gary Colley and Pat Drummond-Colley’s home from 10 a.m. until 5 p.m. this Friday at 34 Cornelius Lane (up...