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Carol Hoehn has returned from Taiwan to lead students of Tai Chi in a five-week, 10-class series, sharing her knowledge of one the oldest forms of Chinese martial arts.

Nicole Dersé, certified nutrition consultant, functional and nutritional medicine clinician and founder of the Center for Optimal Health in Sturgeon Bay, will discuss thyroid dysfunction, its causes and natural remedies on June 20 at 1 pm at Greens ‘N Grains in Egg Harbor.

When Jack Peterson takes his weekly walk along Europe Bay beach, he brings binoculars, a field guide and a shovel.

Alison Beadell, licensed acupuncturist and owner of Wood Rabbit Acupuncture & Herbal Medicine, LLC, has recently returned from a World Healing Exchange in Nepal in conjunction with Acupuncturists Without Borders (AWB).

The Jacksonport Farmer’s Market will open for the fifth season on June 11. As in the past, the market will be held at Lakeside Park on Highway 57 in Jacksonport on Tuesday, 9 am – 1 pm, through October, as weather permits.

The Door County Invasive Species Team (DCIST) announces June is Invasive Species Awareness Month and, to celebrate, there are a number of upcoming workshops and work parties.

The third seminar in a series sponsored by the Door County Environmental Council (DCEC) at Crossroads At Big Creek is scheduled for June 12, 7 pm. The seminar features a screening of Gasland, in which writer/director Josh Fox was offered $100,000 to lease his small parcel of land in the Delaware River Basin to Haliburton for hydraulic fracturing for captive natural gas deep underground.

By Monarch Weekend at Crossroads is a celebration of the monarch butterfly and other insect pollinators, but after hearing from the keynote speaker, Dr.

In the previous issue of the Peninsula Pulse, three letters to the editor were submitted about the health concerns surrounding the spray irrigation of manure in Door and Kewaunee counties.

The Climate Change Coalition will meet on June 5, at 5:30 pm for a potluck meal of finger foods, followed by a special training session led by Gwynne Schultz.

Lee Kuehl didn’t start his recycling business with the typical paper, plastic and aluminum cans. He started in his garage, taking apart the computers that had become so pervasive at home and work.

My first tick of the season wasn’t hiding in the woods or crawling on my skin. It was in a jar on the kitchen counter, marked with a yellow sticky note on which my roommate had scrawled Watch For Ticks!

He had found the fat wood tick hitched to his back, and thought the little bugger should serve a life sentence in a Ball jar, where it would slowly suffocate and warn the rest of us to watch for his eight-legged kind.

Every spring, Trisha and Paul Filar got ready to garden. They’d pull out pots, fill them with soil and plant. The family’s container garden would last for a while, but come the heat of July the plants would die.

The Village of Egg Harbor, the newest certified Wisconsin Bird City in Door County, will celebrate this new honor with a bird-centered event on May 26.

A local landscaping company will bring shrubs and flowering crab trees to the early farm market plant sale at the Settlement Shops on May 25, 9:30 am – 1:30 pm.

Movies That Matter presents a film reporting on the state of the natural environment on May 21 at 4:30 pm. The 11th Hour is a 2007 documentary film created, produced and narrated by Leonardo DiCaprio.

The Settlement Shops Farmers Market will kick off the season with its annual Plant Sale on May 25.

Annuals, perennials, hanging baskets, planted pots, vegetable plants, herbs and Grandma’s old-fashioned favorite plants will be for sale at the first farm market of the season.

Memorial Day weekend is drawing close and that means it’s almost time for the Door County Festival of Nature. The two-day event is a unique opportunity for nature enthusiasts to explore Door County’s natural beauty and diversity through more than 40 field trips and programs conducted by expert field trip leaders on May 24 & 25.