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Arresting Armadillos
Armadillos love to eat bugs and grubs. Yum yum.
Let's go Outside and Play
Let’s go outside! Physical play Playing outside is fantastic for helping children practice their physical abilities. Exercises such as...
Making Life Real… the Essence of Our Community
I so enjoyed Donna Turbyfill’s "Foley: Making Life Real" writing. It reminded me of when my son and daughter-in-law first moved to Foley....
Ethics for Graham Creek Nature Preserve
Reflective Thoughts for Community Dialogue Graham Creek Nature Preserve… let us always remember the meaning of the words: creek, nature,...
Foley - Making Life Real
Foley Alabama: Making Life Real The essence of Foley is making life real. Through many reflections and dialogues within the community,...
Cicadas
You’ve heard them, and they are loud. Cicadas are amazing insects that grace us with beautiful buzzing songs, made by buckling and...
Pollinators
Plants and animals have a symbiotic relationship. A pollinator is an animal that moves pollen from the anther of a flower to the female...
Forest Bathing
The practice of walking through the woods and taking in the beauty...
Got Pine Trees?
SOUTHERN YELLOW PINEs Pine trees are conifers. Conifers are cone-bearing trees that are easy to identify because they don’t have broad...
Southern Red Cedar
Juniperus silicicola You may be surprised to learn that the southern red cedar is not, in fact, a cedar at all. In reality, it is a part...
Red Maples in Graham Creek Nature Preserve
A walk through Graham Creek Nature Preserve, you will see Acer rubrum L., aka red maples. You can find red maples throughout eastern...
Graham Creek is just part of a bigger coastal environment
All of L.A. (Lower Alabama) is a precious place where water is key. Wolf Bay, located south east of the Foley city center, is fed by Wolf...
Red bay, aka swamp red bay
If you see a tree with lumpy galls on its leaves, it's probably a red bay. Leaves of this tree are aromatic when crushed, with the...
What's soil got to do with it?
The soil in Southern Alabama is really really poor. We are in a coastal plain. The plain formed many millions of years ago from eroding...
