The bur oak (Quercus macrocarpa) is a noble native tree. This oak has large (5- to 9-inch-long), dark-green leaves. The base fiddle-shaped leaves have deep, rounded sinuses. The acorns are most ...

It’s not often I vacuum my backyard. Actually, I’ve never vacuumed it until last week. My problem was an increasing number of acorns the neighborhood squirrels were chewing off our bur oak tree (also ...

Fall is here, and so are acorns, falling from oak trees into yards everywhere. Viable acorns can be grown into oak trees, if properly handled. A: It’s common for the acorn crop on oak trees to vary ...

BRAINERD — Last week’s cooler weather beckoned those who lean toward the outdoors, or at least got them thinking about it. Read more Bill Marchel I took advantage of the comfortable temperatures to ...

Spot an oak tree this time of year and under and all around it will be hundreds of acorns. To some gardeners, acorns are a nuisance but there are positives to them. Collecting acorns gets us outdoors, ...

Native plant specialist Nadia Navarrete-Tindall is looking for a few good people (even just one person!) to make flour from Burr Oak Acorns. Why? Because it's a rare find, and if found, can sell for ...

Our daughter, Sarah, gave Pam and I four grandchildren. The first two, Alyssa, twelve, and Lane, ten, are ordinary enough, but the last two are cut a little bit differently. Colt, three, I think was ...

Our daughter, Sarah, gave Pam and I four grandchildren. The first two, Alyssa, twelve, and Lane, ten, are ordinary enough, but the last two are cut a little bit differently. Colt, three, I think was ...

Last week's cool, cloudy and windy weather discouraged fishing activities around the state. The nasty weather that kept anglers off the lakes, however, sent some deer hunters into the woods, or at ...

The oak family is actually quite large in Iowa. It is, perhaps, the dominant family of Iowa forest trees. The burr oak was selected as Iowa’s state tree. The family is divided into two groups, the ...