Green and Growing: When it comes to nature writing, love your locals
Jim Sirch, Yale Peabody Museum’s education coordinator, now writes a nature blog with a hyper-local flair for our southern New England environs. Here, he releases a newly hatched black swallowtail butterfly. (photo courtesy of Jim Sirch)
Middletown garden writer Thomas Christopher poses here with a chicken from his flock. “She’s from the Sultan breed,” he said, “a very sweet and somewhat goofy breed.” (photo courtesy of Thomas Christopher)
Published January 26. 2021 7:45AM
Kathy Connolly, Special to The Times
A long time ago, I saw a tag on a teabag that read, “Calming tea for a nervous world.” I still don’t know who wrote that line, but the sentiment stayed with me.