Natural Health | Nature Observation

Deep Woods Bath: ImproVerse Haiku

ByDavid Kuhns July 4, 2019August 20, 2019

I emersed me in/
woods, hoping to stop dying./
I must bathe more oft.

Nature Observation | Nature's Garden: Gardening and Land Management

Finding Wonderful Hidden Wildflowers: Haiku
ByDavid Kuhns August 22, 2019August 24, 2019

It is often so/ that when we clear dross and junk,/ we find wonderful. Using a loping shears to clear underbrush and non-native privet from around the hardwood trees in my back yard reveals an undergrowth of black-eyed susans and other hidden wildflowers. Sometimes you have to burn the grasses and weeds from large fields,…

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Nature Observation | Nature's Garden: Gardening and Land Management

Identifying Plants In Our Yard
ByDavid Kuhns May 9, 2018June 10, 2018

Identifying plants — especially native ones — can be a somewhat difficult process, especially if you’ve moved (as I have) to a bio-zone different from where you’ve lived before. I was talking about this issue with my brother Gene, out in Washington State. He’s gotten very good at identifying native plants on Vashon Island, where…

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Nature's Garden: Gardening and Land Management

Plant In The Ant Hill: Gardening Experiment
ByDavid Kuhns April 9, 2018April 11, 2018

Northwest Georgia is notorious for several things, including large fire ant hills and thick, sticky red clay. The clay is so thick, it is hard to imagine any plant can grow in it without a lot of compost or some other organic material to break it up. However, the fire ants make their hills in…

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Eco-Activism | Nature Observation | Practical Environmentalism

Heeding Nature’s Calls To Love Her: My Nature’s Guy Manifesto
ByDavid Kuhns February 18, 2022February 24, 2022

Nature’s calls resonate all around me. Whether I’m home on the banks of the West Chickamauga Creek in Northwest Georgia, at my Dad’s on Lake Winneconne, Wisconsin, or visiting my children, friends and relatives in Arizona, Utah, Lake Tahoe area or the Pacific Northwest, Nature’s calls reach out to me, grab me and hold me…

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Nature Haibun -- Prose + Haiku | Nature Observation

Southern Women Sans Nylons: Haiku
ByDavid Kuhns June 15, 2019August 29, 2019

I was shocked to learn / why Southern women dont wear/ nylons: Chiggers itch.

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Nature Haibun -- Prose + Haiku | Nature's Garden: Gardening and Land Management

Earth + Us Part 2: Weeding Uncovers Treasures Haiku
ByDavid Kuhns January 5, 2021January 6, 2021

Weeding out the bad/ that shouldn’t be there makes room for the good that should. Backstory: My wife wrote Earth + Us about pulling privet. This is an update. I was motivated to pull out a massive clump of several very old and large privet on my NW Georgia property (privet is an invasive, non-native…

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