Our sympathy to the family of Rudolph “Rudy” Nikko, 82, who passed away on May 10, 2025. Rudy was a Cromwell High School graduate in 1960.

A forager showed me some morel mushrooms—sponges on sticks. Another talked about collecting fiddleheads from ostrich ferns. This fern has a pronounced U-shaped groove running down the center of its ...