Keweenaw Peninsula Michigan

Can I purchase the honey directly from you? Would you mail it? Thanks, Margee

Keweenaw Co-op is a treasure chest of food and friends!

By Patricia Van Pelt

About twenty people, including several children, showed up at Paavola on April 24, 2010, under an almost full moon, thinly veiled with cloud from time to time. We walked briskly and silently to the other side of the pond where the beaver are using the old wall to make a large dam. We were silent but the peepers calling filled the air with an almost palpable wall of sound. Though we did not see any beaver we saw plenty of evidence, downed trees, stripped limbs, and 'white' shavings on the ground.

Our eyes adjusted to the black and white vision and our feet learned the substance of the trail, leaves, mud, rock and twigs. We heard the Chorus Frog and the wiley Snipe. We walked more slowly back to the meadow by the spooky derelict house and lay down in a circle in the grass by the woods' edge to call in the owls.Erik played the call of the Saw-Whet Owl and then the Barred Owl and finally the Great Horned Owl. On a survey trip the night before, Dave and Erik had called in this large owl and he did not disappoint. At first he echoed the call on the tape, almost conversation-like, though we had no way of knowing what they were saying to each other.

And then he flew to the top of a large conifer where we could see his outline, and his eyes, against the night sky. Then he flew right over us to another perch, his broad wings silhouetted against the sky. And he continued to converse with the recorded owl. He moved once more to another tall conifer and watched us silently leave the meadow for the trail back to our cars.

We got into our car, turned on the engine and the dashboard lights almost blinded us! Our eyes had become so accustomed to night vision that these man-made lights actually hurt our eyes.

Thanks again to Erik for making this unforgettable experience possible and to the KLT for 'saving' these natural spaces where we can learn and experience our natural world.

Awesome place and very nice owners.