With spring just around the corner (or so we hope), why not learn a bit about some of the trees in our beautiful city?

Join Lisa Nett for a Tree Identification walk on April 12 in Prospect Heights or April 25 in Greenpoint. 

Other upcoming tree classes with Lisa:

Saturday, March 28: London Plane: A Love Story. A tale of arboreal ardor and the mysteries of exfoliating bark revealed!

Sunday, March 29:...

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Last week, at our maple syrup class, we were perplexed by a very important question. Why did all the real maple syrup bottles have these tiny, useless handles?

You know the type:

The infamous tiny handle. courtesy Brett L. 

So, why go through the trouble of having these little handles when a smooth bottle would do the job just fine?

The internet's favorite answer is that the handles are a remnant from when most jars were large...

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