I don’t know as much about birds as I should, but I enjoy seeing and hearing the songbirds that roll through the region every spring en route to points farther north. With help from others who know ...

Jackie Fetter makes a good point. “We are now generations removed from the farm and all the meals being cooked in the kitchen,” she said. That thinking is part of what has motivated her in her ...

In mid September, nine young students gathered in the Newbo District for the first meeting of Cedar Rapids’ Girls Who Code club. The group is designed to tackle the growing gender gap in Computer ...

Cedar Rapids Opera’s Lift Every Voice: Artist in Residence Program, established in 2022, places a professional vocalist/teaching artist in local high schools several times annually. This artist works ...

Question: Would you please tell me what type of mulch is not recommended to put in flower beds? I thought I remembered it being redwood mulch, but I can’t find anything on that. Could it have been ...

Necessity is the mother of invention, and that is certainly the response we’ve seen from businesses and organizations across the Cedar Valley dealing with the current workforce shortage. Employers are ...

Using tools of water and wind, nature continues to carve a geological and scenic wonderland at Cedar Breaks National Monument in Southwestern Utah on the western edge of the high Markagunt Plateau.

Botanist Linda Curtis emailed me with good news. “We saw flower buds on the water marigolds that had been swept to the Lehmann Park shore by the derecho last week,” she wrote. She wasn’t referring to ...