Making It Grow Minutes

Cedar apple rust is a fungus, but its brown cases become jelly-like blobs with protrusions that look like something from outer space.

Our eastern red cedar is one of the junipers whose berries are used to flavor gin.

Native Americans used eastern red cedar for canoes and ceremonial buildings.

Before the ubiquitous Fraser firs that don’t grow well here, many people got an eastern red cedar.

Eastern red cedar has long been used to line chests and closets to protect wool items.

Bird and bat guano have both been used as valuable sources of fertilizer. The most valuable guano is found in caves protected from water.

Agave growers get higher yields of tequila precursors when the plants aren’t allowed to flower, imperiling bats that depend on the night-blooming flowers.

Do you enjoy tequila? Thank the bat community.

Host Amanda McNulty explains how you can help protect our state's bat population.

Host Amanda McNulty explains why bats are important mammals worldwide.

Tree leaves aren't the only thing that contains chlorophyll; sometimes it's stored in the fruit.

Chlorophyll is the basis for life on Earth.

Tapping trees has a long history in the U.S.

In the fall, Vermont's deciduous trees put on an eye-popping display of color.

If you want to see beautiful fall leaves in South Carolina, you should head up above Highway 11.

During World War II, the stabilimenta of writing spiders was observed getting smaller, possibly supporting a theory of the zigzag's purpose.

While joining a friend to watch writing spiders weave their webs, Amanda McNulty ponders the purpose of the stabilimentum.

Host Amanda McNulty takes a closer look at the web weaving of writing spiders.

One of the common spiders that weave webs with a distinctive zigzag pattern is the yellow garden spider.

Instead of having to keep up with cleaning spiderwebs from the front of her house, Amanda McNulty decides to recruit some members of the wildlife community.