[ValleyNature] fiddleheads' nutritional features & nature notes for May 12

[James W. Wolford]

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> From: "James W. Wolford" <jimwolford at eastlink.ca>
> Date: May 14, 2010 8:58:35 PM ADT
> To: NatureNS <naturens at chebucto.ns.ca>
> Subject: [NatureNS] fiddleheads' nutritional features & nature  
> notes for May 12
> Reply-To: naturens at chebucto.ns.ca
>
> MAY 12, 2010 - Resting on the gravel path along the Wolfville  
> railroad tracks was a fresh-looking adult mourning cloak  
> butterfly.  By the Acadia Arena I was surprised to see a tall small  
> tree of pin cherry (flowering) perhaps 6 metres tall (most pin  
> cherry bushes that I see are much smaller in stature at 3 m. or less.
>
> After a short appearance at a governments' consultation session in  
> Wolfville on N.S. coast issues, I drove to Halifax to hear Dr.  
> Bridget Stutchberry talk about conservation of birds and about her  
> latest book, "The Bird Detective".
>
> In The Valley, yellow rocket (Barbarea) is conspicuously flowering  
> everywhere along roads.
>
> CBC Radio News this evening: FIDDLEHEADS, those of ostrich fern  
> that we eat, have just been found to be loaded with antioxidants,  
> in fact twice as much as in blueberries, AND the fiddleheads also  
> contain significant amounts of omega-3 fatty acids.  The  
> researchers at the agricultural research centre at Kentville are  
> wondering now about a new cash crop that might be developed locally?
>
> Cheers from Jim in Wolfville

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