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Written by Christina Daniels, Farm Apprentice Every year, the Coverdale Farm Preserve team packs their notebooks, reusable mugs, and curiosity and heads to the Pennsylvania Association for Sustainable Agriculture (PASA) Conference. Each time, we return inspired, energized, and full of ideas to bring back to Coverdale Farm Preserve, from improving soil health and refining farm…

I’m hoping to break the winter doldrums, at least for a moment, with the story of an exciting discovery I made this past fall. In mid-October, I was working on invasive plant control in an otherwise unremarkable patch of woods dominated by tulip trees. While kneeling on the forest floor to remove multiflora rose, something…

In January 2026, Delaware Nature Society partnered with Hillstar Nature to lead two back-to-back Eco-trips to one of the most biodiverse regions on Earth: Colombia’s Santa Marta Mountains, Caribbean Coast, and nearby La Guajira Desert scrublands. Much of our time was spent in the Santa Marta Mountains, an isolated coastal range crowned by the glaciated…

Delaware hosts 7 species of woodpecker, most of which are striking, colorful birds that are quite easy to identify. However, there are two very similar species that continue to befuddle birdwatchers: the Downy Woodpecker and the Hairy Woodpecker. Although the Downy may just look like a smaller version of the Hairy they are not particularly…

House Finches vs Purple Finches – two birds common in Delaware which are hard to tell apart – especially the females. Read our birding tips!