Country Bounty

The soothing sounds of running water surround Scott and Catie Walsh as they hold their 7-month-old daughter Amara in their Sewickley Hills, Pennsylvania garden. The…

Some people insist on having their coffee one way and one way only, namely black and bracing. Others just can’t abide it. So it is…

It doesn’t guarantee that you’ll find a whitetail, turkey, ruffed grouse or any other kind of wildlife. But it gets you in the game. That’s…

The crowds are gone at this time of year. The crowds of fishermen, that is. But the crowds of bass remain. Harbar Acres Lake in…

Hey, I’m all for it. Getting away from it all, that is. There are few things as wonderful as being alone or mostly alone in…

When it comes to muskies, as with all fish, you’ve got to catch them where they’re at. Often, that’s around the kind of complications that…

It’s an olive branch of unknown consequences. Pennsylvania Game Commissioners exempted senior lifetime license holders – some of them, anyway – from having to buy…

As the tiny sprouts of hosta stems emerge through the cool spring soil, other perennials join them in waking up in the garden. These plants…

Archers are going to benefit from one change to Pennsylvania’s hunting seasons and bag limits for 2018-19. But a bigger one may yet be coming….

  Chances are you’ve looked outside a window and seen backyard wildlife roaming your property at one time or another. Maybe it was a robin,…

Pennsylvania’s most avid spring turkey hunters are going all in. With the 2018 season fast approaching – the youth only spring gobbler hunt is April…

Not every angler with a Pennsylvania fishing license will be on the water when the statewide trout season opens on April 14. But it might…

As backcountry kitchens go, ours was as large and heavy as it was battered. Odds and ends of old pots and pans, that’s what we…

If you’ve ever thought about raising hens, but chickened out, Jenn and Phil Tompkins have an eggsellent solution. The Armstrong County, Pennsylvania couple incubated their company, Rent The…

St. Patrick’s Day is the traditional start of the planting season, and it’s something I’ve been doing for decades. The weather can be problematic though…

Spring turkey hunting seasons are only weeks away pretty much everywhere in the country. They get rolling as early as mid-March in some parts of…

Maybe you were the older brother who liked to dish out noogies. Maybe you were the younger sibling who had to endure them, at least…

You have springtime bass on the mind. We get it. But do yourself a favor and take a moment to consider the plight of all…

Was there any good news in 1968? It probably didn’t seem like it at the time. Martin Luther King was assassinated. So, too, was Robert…

Fishers are proving more adaptable across Pennsylvania than anyone might have guessed 20 years ago. And that’s leading to more opportunities for trappers. Could hunters…