Much like maple trees, birch trees can be tapped for a steady source of delicious and edible liquid sap, also called birch water. Learning bushcraft skills serves as a clear reminder that we are ...

As a historian I was eager when I came across early local Pennsylvania maps which gave the locations of Birch oil distilleries, a pioneer occupation among PA Dutch farmers. But growing up on wooded ...

Sweet birch, also called black or cherry birch (B. lenta), is another native birch, one that is rarely used by landscapers despite the fact that it is a handsome tree, particularly when it is young ...

The calendar indicates that it’s spring, and despite occasional freezing temperatures and lingering patches of snow, the return of extended daylight confirms this change of season. Last year, a chance ...

A number of conifers are candidates for the Official Evergreen of Winter, but among the leaf-shedding shade trees there is just one superstar, the birch tree with its peeling snow-white bark. Birches ...