Bonita's suet cake recipe: It's the Christmas season; time for giving. Let's not forget our backyard birds. Here is a recipe for suet cakes that I take out every year to make a treat for those birds in my backyard: 1 cup crunchy peanut butter 1 cup lard 2 cups quick-cooking oats 2 cups cornmeal 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/3 cup sugar 1-1/2 cups black oil sunflower seed or mixed bird seed (whatever you have) Melt peanut butter & lard together. Stir in remaining ingredients, including the bird seed. Pour into square or rectangular pan (mixture should be about 1”- 1-1/2” thick). Cool completely & cut into squares. These freeze well. The birds are crazy over this, and it has attracted the Downy and Hairy Woodpeckers and the Northern Flickers.
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Thanks, Karen, for sharing info about the free online lecture series. Exciting that Doug Tallamy is one of the speakers. https://u.osu.edu/certify/tending-nature/?fbclid=IwAR3YZ-RdmILZqRrcPf7szxDABrJCGT55xMDnH4mSaxT7UkTOo7Lro-PAWDY Here's a picture from the Mariners Memorial Park Pollinator Garden showing a beautiful Monarch caterpillar.
Evergreen Garden Club of Deer Isle, Maine
Welcome to the Evergreen Garden Club of Deer Isle, Maine's blog. This is a place we can share our love of native flora and fauna. To start off with, here's a link to a project that we may want to emulate at Mariners Memorial Park: Square Meter Photography Project | The Prairie Ecologist .