It’s BBQ season! Who’s ready to fire up the grill? Now that the warmer temps are here, it’s a great time to enjoy all of your barbecue favorites with family and friends. Before you plan what’s sure to be an amazing meal, check out Oakland County Health Division’s Food Safety Tips.
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It’s BBQ season! Who’s ready to fire up the grill? Now that the warmer temps are finally here, it’s a great time to enjoy all of your barbecue favorites with family and friends. Before you plan what’s sure to be an amazing meal, check out Oakland County Health Division’s Food Safety Tips. Continue reading
On sultry summer days the beautiful wooded swamps and protected wetlands of Cranberry Lake Park occasionally transform into short term havens for blood-thirsty mosquitoes and squadrons of dive-bombing deer flies. That is nature’s way all across the Wilder Side of Oakland County. I still remember a hot and humid late summer day when I meandered into that Oakland Township Park on a hunt for a few blackberries. I raced back to my vehicle a few minutes later with my arms flailing after becoming an involuntarily blood donor for what felt like millions of mosquitoes.
Our favorite parts of BBQ Season are being outside with family and friends, and of course enjoying fantastic food. But undercooking meat or eating meat that wasn’t prepared properly can put a huge damper on a fun day. To ensure your meal is the best it can be, follow these tips from the Oakland County Health Division. Continue reading
“Every child should have mud pies, grasshoppers, waterbugs, tadpoles, frogs & turtles, elderberries, wild strawberries, acorns, hickory nuts, trees to climb, animals to pet, hayfields, pine cones, rocks to roll, sand, snakes, huckleberries and hornets – and any child who has been deprived of these has been deprived of the best part of his education.” – Luther Burbank, 1849 – 1926
