Erika Howsare has been a C-VILLE contributor since 2002. Her first nonfiction book is The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors (2024), and she hosted a podcast miniseries called “If You See a Deer.” She teaches writing locally.
As usual, our shelter monthly includes a lovely range of green content.
Despite glorious winter gardens in the past, this year we met our Waterloo.
The guy is a true iconoclast. And makes a compelling case.
"And plants gives us oxygen. And without all of this the human race will end."
What is a "native species," anyway? And why are you mad about your husband’s car?
Somewhere, coal is being burned so that I, an able-bodied person, can walk through a door without opening it myself.
The presidents of UVA and Virginia Tech are among the ten highest-paid public university executives nationwide.
Compared with 2008, home sales were down 8.7 percent overall. But consider that sales were down 28 percent at the year’s midpoint
When there’s a frozen snowpack all over your compost pile, it can be tough to empty the bins.