Hunger Moon

"To some Indian tribes and to our colonial forefathers in New England, the full moon in February was known as the Hunger Moon; it indicated the time of greatest hardship. Winter was still in full swing, food stored the previous fall was either getting wormy or running out entirely, and hunting and fishing were harder and less productive. If you made it through the Hunger Moon in those days, things soon started looking better; spring wasn’t too far off, and your chances of survival for another year improved. Like the proverbial hedgehog, groundhogs know this one big thing: stay indoors until the Hunger Moon is past, and then some." - The Retired Ecologist


"Nature is full of genius, full of the divinity; so that not a snowflake escapes its fashioning hand. " ~Henry David Thoreau