Just ten days till our Welcome Summer Block Party!!! The plan is shaping up like it always
does, at the last minute, so look for more updates in the next few days. The Allegany Artisans are
planning to make this party a little more interesting with local displays and hopefully Professor
Midgely will be actually creating some local art in the street. Raku is one of his specialties which
basically involves firing a up a garbage can filled with straw and using the 'oven' to finish the
pottery. Obviously we must speak with the local authorities about this one.... Either way there will
be some artsy fartsy stuff at the party. Tickets are on sale now that include a Stearn's Chicken
BBQ, Great Live Music, & a donation to the Allegany County United Way. More details here!!
June has been an interesting month at the New World Headquarters for lots of reasons but mostly
because of mother nature. Besides the daily emergence of new plants we have an almost daily
emergence of insects. For whatever reason, I suspect the cool clay forest floor, we have a moth
habitat like no other. Hundreds of different moths converge on the house when the sun goes
down, all different sizes and colors. Amongst these moths are two huge species the Luna and the
Polyphemus Moth's which look like small aircraft when they arrive.
They are almost always trouble free, they just find a nice place to land and stay there. In contrast
this year we have had the pleasure of being infested with June bugs, a large flying beetle. June
bugs are loud, clumsy, clingy, and worst of all really crunchy when you accidentally step on one.
They literally fly full speed into the house until they are incapacitated and sometimes this takes
twenty good head on whacks. Any light source is subject to the kamikaze bombardment and
although they are harmless they can grab ahold of anything and won't let go until you pry there
barbed legs away. It can be kinda awkward when they grab onto your finger and you totally freak
out thrashing around until it lets go.....
Besides the bugs we've been treated to delicious wild oyster mushroom crops that could literally
feed a small army. This fragrant fungus grows on dying aspen trees and has a great peppery
flavor and has been linked to lowering cholesterol. More info here...
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/oct98.html
Between the mushrooms, leeks, and fiddle heads(fern shoots) its a great time of year to eat al
naturale....
does, at the last minute, so look for more updates in the next few days. The Allegany Artisans are
planning to make this party a little more interesting with local displays and hopefully Professor
Midgely will be actually creating some local art in the street. Raku is one of his specialties which
basically involves firing a up a garbage can filled with straw and using the 'oven' to finish the
pottery. Obviously we must speak with the local authorities about this one.... Either way there will
be some artsy fartsy stuff at the party. Tickets are on sale now that include a Stearn's Chicken
BBQ, Great Live Music, & a donation to the Allegany County United Way. More details here!!
June has been an interesting month at the New World Headquarters for lots of reasons but mostly
because of mother nature. Besides the daily emergence of new plants we have an almost daily
emergence of insects. For whatever reason, I suspect the cool clay forest floor, we have a moth
habitat like no other. Hundreds of different moths converge on the house when the sun goes
down, all different sizes and colors. Amongst these moths are two huge species the Luna and the
Polyphemus Moth's which look like small aircraft when they arrive.
They are almost always trouble free, they just find a nice place to land and stay there. In contrast
this year we have had the pleasure of being infested with June bugs, a large flying beetle. June
bugs are loud, clumsy, clingy, and worst of all really crunchy when you accidentally step on one.
They literally fly full speed into the house until they are incapacitated and sometimes this takes
twenty good head on whacks. Any light source is subject to the kamikaze bombardment and
although they are harmless they can grab ahold of anything and won't let go until you pry there
barbed legs away. It can be kinda awkward when they grab onto your finger and you totally freak
out thrashing around until it lets go.....
Besides the bugs we've been treated to delicious wild oyster mushroom crops that could literally
feed a small army. This fragrant fungus grows on dying aspen trees and has a great peppery
flavor and has been linked to lowering cholesterol. More info here...
http://botit.botany.wisc.edu/toms_fungi/oct98.html
Between the mushrooms, leeks, and fiddle heads(fern shoots) its a great time of year to eat al
naturale....
