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Fresh Tracks: Living With Wild Animals

In Possum City by Eleanor ScottFebruary 3, 2016leave a COMMENT

Fresh snow lays bare the secret wanderings of the wild urban animals that live among us. Taking out the trash during our last snowfall, I spotted rabbit tracks in the …

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Arboricide: The Tree-Killing Mistakes of Well-Intentioned Landscapers

In Possum City by Eleanor ScottJanuary 13, 2016leave a COMMENT

The grassy medians in the East Knoxville Target parking lot are planted with small maples and oaks. The grass is neatly trimmed and each tree has a tidy cone of …

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Fall Foraging for Maypops and Persimmons

In Possum City by Eleanor ScottOctober 28, 2015leave a COMMENT

I wrote my last two columns on regional wild crops gathered and cultivated by American Indians and early settlers: the sunflower and the pawpaw. Now two more are ready for …

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Rediscovering the Pawpaw at the Market Square Farmers’ Market

In Possum City by Eleanor ScottSeptember 30, 2015leave a COMMENT

Remember that old folk song: “Pickin’ up pawpaws puttin’ ’em in your pocket, way down yonder in the pawpaw patch”? Not a good idea, says Elizabeth Malayter, co-owner with her …

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Labor Day Sunflower Project’s Post-Labor Day Activities

In Possum City by Eleanor ScottSeptember 16, 2015leave a COMMENT

At the west end of the grassy rectangle of the Krutch Park extension, a 15-foot-tall circle of sunflowers woven onto chain-link substrate looms like an enormous organic parade float. Within …

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