What’s better this fall than taking leisurely family walks to grab some fresh air and enjoy the stimulation of the outdoors? Making crafts with bark can be a fun family activity. (Courtesy of Donna ...

HARBIN - One man's trash is another man's treasure. This is especially the case for Tao Dandan, who collects pieces of birch bark dumped by wood processing plants and creates handicraft with them ...

Linda Ross (right) has made several birch bark baskets with help from her friend, Helen Dick. (Sabine Poux/KDLL) When it’s warm and wet, birch bark can be folded into baskets — a container for berries ...

The bark of white birch is the traditional sheath material of Scandinavia. The method described in this chapter is a slick way to make a quickie sheath for anything: knife, scissors, chisel, or ...

Angelique Merasty Levac, left, and her granddaughter, Mercedez Angelique Levac, show off some of their birch bark biting art — and Levac's granddaughter, whom she calls A chance encounter with a ...

Growing up in South Korea, Sophia Kim would walk by a long row of birch trees on her way to school that still sticks with her today. “I was mesmerized by them: they seemed to talk to me,” says the now ...

When Jennifer Nasimiyu arrived in the United States in 1994, the bride of an American who had fallen in love with her in Kenya, she wasn't too impressed. "It was very strange. People walking fast and ...

Paper birch (also called white birch) is an iconic tree of the north and probably our most easily recognized tree because of its distinctive white bark. The scientific name Betula papyrifera speaks to ...

Editor's note: Once a month, the OSU Extension master gardener's office of Franklin County profiles a plant that occurs naturally in central Ohio. As the growing season fades, we bid adieu to many of ...