Pond Stories

By Steve Waller I cherish the calm days when I can get out on Long Pond in Centerville in the canoe while the sun is high. I can see the fish and bottom vegetation very well, down ten feet or more. Paddling along in the springtime, I see lots of six-inch bass, often...

By Susan Baur (See more stories by Susan here.) At the beginning of May, I took an unusually early swim using a new 5 mm wet suit with a hood. The pond stretched out before me like a piece of wide wale corduroy with line after parallel line of little waves running...

Have you ever seen a picture of what our ponds look like from space? NASA has some great shots you can check out here. Think about Cape Cod like a big slab of Swiss Cheese with nearly 1,000 freshwater ponds breaking up solid pieces of land. The Cape’s ancient ponds...

I asked my neighbors nicely for years about clearing trees and dumping their yard refuse at the edges of the pond. As usual, the refusal to admit they were doing anything wrong with their super green grass became status quo. It was "organic." But then the...

From the Cape Cod Cooperative Extension: "Tune into a vibrant conversation about sustainable fashion on the latest podcast episode of the Groundwater Guardians' One Drop Leads to Another. Amy DuFault of Southeastern New England Fibershed and Botanical Colors, expert...

We think of the Cape as salty air and coastal beaches, but we have almost 1,000 ponds and lakes on Cape Cod. We fondly call them the jewels of Cape Cod and if you look at a satellite image of the Cape, they are just that. For anyone who is acquainted with a freshwater...

I was recently co-hosting a natural dyeing workshop in Ventura, California with the company I work for. California is no stranger to me being married to a man born and raised in LA and many trips all over California throughout our marriage. What I guess has changed is...

Did you know that Cape Cod has nearly 1,000 freshwater ponds? The Cape’s natural ponds are the result of the glaciers that left this area 18,000 years ago. Chunks of glacial ice gouged depressions into the substrate, creating “kettle ponds” that are recharged by rain...

We bought our house on a half-acre on a pond in Falmouth Center about 13 years ago. At the time, there was lots of lawn, some yew foundation plantings, and a big area of English ivy which was overgrowing some hydrangeas, rhododendrons, and an old crabapple tree – your...

We sent our advisor Mark Robinson back into the field, this time to study water quality in Sheep Pond, one of the top five cleanest ponds in Brewster. I was glad to see some ice fishing holes on Sheep Pond on this gray day in early March. That meant I would have an...