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 […]
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Natural Dyeing with Kitchen Scraps
NHSM Photo Safari Scavenger Hunt Stories
I moved to Maryland in February for my first job after finishing graduate school in Alabama. It was already a big change before COVID shut everything down. In mid-August, I was up late scrolling on Facebook when I saw a post about the NHSM fossil raffle. I started looking into the NHSM page where I […]
What are the Frogs Trying to Tell Us?
Maryland is home to a wide variety of wildlife, including birds, mammals, fish, reptiles, and insects. But, my absolute favorite group of animals to photograph are the amphibians. Maryland is home to the Chesapeake Bay, which is fed by over 64,000 square miles of watershed. All of these rivers, streams, creeks, and ponds make a […]
Learn about NHSM’s Archaeology Club!
In 2019, the Natural History Society of Maryland decided to add an archaeology club. We were just starting to get some real momentum going, and, well, you know….Covid. However, there is always tomorrow, and once this pandemic is over we are planning for some more great archaeology projects! One project which the Archaeology Club was […]