Porous, Flexible Pavement: Where The Rubber Meets The Roots

Porous, flexible paving for pedestrian byways holds promise for protecting people feet, tree roots, and water supplies.

Rachel Carson Gets Glover Park Marker

“Silent Spring” author Carson was a scientist with the U.S. Department of the Interior and led birding hikes in the park, where she was photographed for Life magazine.

History: Glover Archbold National Park

A detailed history of Glover Archbold National Park tells that the 2.5-mile stretch of forest has been home not only to diverse wildlife but also a Native American quarry, an arsenal, and a 25-foot deep lake. The history, part of a successful nomination of the park to the National Register of Historic Places, provides insights…

Mantis Mantra: Prey, Eat, Procreate

On Sunday, a praying mantis showed up in the foliage of one of our garden plants. It was soon easy to see why, as the clouds of white flowers were drawing a smorgasbord of bugs – bees, wasps, flies, mosquitoes. Then the delta head of the mantis swiveled toward a point of interest. The mantis…

Montreal Street Share

Montreal’s Parking Lot Vineyard

The vintage shines among the other edibles that adorn the narrow strip, just one of the city gardens that are the work of Destination Center-ville.

Montreal Lunch Loaf

WHAT MORE?: The bustling bounty of a recent summer Saturday at Marche Atwater in Montreal provided an extravagant lunch of a crusty baguette, $2.40; a round of chevre, $3.50; a chilly limonade mangue, $2.95; and an ice cold chocolate milk in a thick bottle, $3.60*. My wife and I, visiting from our home in Washington,…

Montreal Still Life

ONE PEAR, A BITE: Across Rue Sherbrooke from the entrance to McGill University in Montreal, I encountered a young man perched atop the backrest of a bench. It was Sunday morning, September 4, 2016. He was engrossed in the open laptop computer on his knees. He didn’t seem to be aware or care that a…

Runoff: Glover Archbold National Park

Steve Saari and Stephen Reiling want to do what they can to protect the watershed encompassed by Glover Archbold National Park. But. “Glover Archbold is an extremely complex place,” says Saari, chief of the planning and restoration branch of the D.C. Department of Energy and Environment’s watershed protection division. The flow is “not at all…

Sure Bet, Chicory

Susan Bahcall spent a late-August Thursday afternoon trying to turn her zucchini into fritters like those she’d tasted at a local Greek restaurant. “I got the recipe from the Internet,” she said. “They didn’t turn out as well as I would have liked.” By early evening, she was making care-taking rounds in her garden at…