Have You Tried…?

The basalt cliffs of southern Idaho’s Snake River Canyon are a far cry from the bayous of Louisiana or the everglades of Florida, but in one corner of the flood-carved gorge there are alligators swishing their long tails and batting their mellifluous eyes.
Fish farmer Leo Ray, a native Oklahoman who introduced catfish aquaculture to Idaho [...]

Persimmon, Diospyros virginiana, is a deciduous tree that can be found growing in dry woodlands, limestone glades, prairies, thickets, abandoned fields and along roadsides.
In spring, tiny yellow bell-shaped flowers adorn newly leafed-out branches. The foliage is dark green and glossy above, paler below. It turns buttery-yellow in autumn, infrequently reddish-purple. One to two-inch berries change [...]