Month: February 2021

Natural Dyeing with Kitchen Scraps

Written by Bronwyn Strong · February 13, 2021

I’ve been saving onion skins for about 3 months. It amounted to about 3 pounds of onion skins! This could have taken way more time if onions weren’t a staple ingredient in my cooking. Why was I saving onion skins? Well, to start with, they dry out and don’t spoil so easily, so it is […]

Hunting for fossils “a marilandia”: Members of a Maryland fossil club look for a state treasure

Written by Jake Solyst · February 6, 2021

Blog: Today in Nature

Found on Driftwood Beach by a member of the Fossil Club, this Ecphora is from the St. Marys Formation, estimated to be between 10 to 7-and-a-half-million years old. (Jake Solyst/Chesapeake Bay Program)

archaeology, Artifacts, ecology, fossil club, fossils, sea

This article was originally published at the Chesapeake Bay Program website by Jake Solyst on January 26th, 2021. Thank you to Jake for letting us share this article on our blog! —————————————————————————————————————— Most Marylanders can tell you about the local blue crab or diamondback terrapin but few can identify the state fossil: an extinct, several-million-year-old snail known as the Ecphora […]