"Grist from Abbott's Mill"

Four weeks ago the subject was the Pink Moccasin Flower (Cypripedium acaule). This is the largest orchid growing in our area. There are...

Cubbage Mill In 1769, John Draper and Luke Walton petitioned the Sussex County Court to erect a gristmill on the north fork of Cedar...

My grandparents and great grandparents moved to Delaware in 1914 at the beginning of the mass migration of Swiss/German families to...

In celebration of the Delaware Nature Society's 40 year commitment in Sussex County at Abbott"s Mill Nature Center Nathan Willey hewed...

Cedar Creek is just south of Milford and the Mispillion River, in fact they both empty into the Delaware Bay at the same inlet, just...

Perhaps you, like me, have sort of overlooked the Dandelion, Taraxacum officinale. It was always there even where we didn’t want them to...

Two weeks ago, we visited the old mills that were once on the Mispillion River west of present-day Rt. 113. Today we will continue on...

I depend on my readers to keep me on my toes, and to call me down when I make a mistake. Several of you pointed out to me, that in the...

This week we will start at the headwaters of the Mispillion River and beginning with Blair's Pond, we'll take a trip downstream, visiting...

Violets can be a challenge to identify with some species closely resembling each other. Learning the correct identity of a single...

The oldest photograph of Ainsworth Abbott's mill that I am aware of. Judging by all the horses or mules, it was probably taken sometime...

To provide the setting for this adventure, a little background history is in order. On one of the more upland forested areas of the...

Several weeks ago, we followed corn through the mill as it became cornmeal and finally was bagged for sale. Today we’re going to follow a...

It is human nature to want to organize facts, to place things into groups or categories. In an effort to better understand plants and...

When I first visited Abbott's Mill over twenty years ago I knew next to nothing about grist mills and the milling operation seemed to me...

The River Otter (Lutra canadensis) is perhaps one of the most cosmopolitan of any North American mammal, yet it is rarely seen. It is...

The Delaware Nature Society's Spring Native Plant Sale will take place on-line on May 2nd and 3rd, with down-state pickup at Abbotts Mill...

On August 24, 1933, the great “Chesapeake-Potomac Hurricane” passed through Delmarva creating havoc. Higher than normal tides washed out...

This home-built traditional bird nesting box is suitable for many cavity nesting birds such as bluebirds, titmice, tree swallows,...