This post will show you how to decorate flameless fall candles using real River Birch bark. Don’t you just love using items from nature! I sure do.

A birch bark canoe was assembled last week at the Sault Ste. Marie Tribe of Chippewa Indians’ Escanaba Community Center, the ...

Ancient chewing gum is revealing unexpected secrets about Neolithic life, from everyday tools to health practices, thanks to ...

Turning wood into art is what I do best! Watch as I create unique, handcrafted pieces full of character and detail. In this ...

Ancient bones, artifacts and texts offer numerous insights into the past, as does the chewing gum that Neolithic people ...

The emerald ash borer is an invasive beetle native to Asia that bores into wood and kills ash trees by eating tissues under ...

Japanese beetles strike fear into any gardener's heart, but the University of Minnesota may have found a surprising solution ...

I don’t know where I made the wrong turn. It was a dark day-scudding clouds, flat-lit, chilly, damp-and there are few ...

Adding carbon-rich materials such as biochar and hydrochar to farmland soils is often seen as a promising way to fight climate change. But a new study ...

Sap is the 'blood' of a tree, helping to move nutrients from the roots to the limbs. Some sap is not unusual, but excessive amounts may mean trouble. Learn what it means when you notice a lot of sap, ...

The Center for African American Art at the Detroit Institute of Arts was the first department of its kind in the nation when ...

The team analyzed 30 birch tar artifacts from nine sites in the Alps region, most from lake settlements up to 6,300 years old. Twelve of these tar pieces were loose wads, many of which had telltale ...