Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens
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One of the great blessings in my life is to have gathered such an amazing team together here at Native Plants and Wildlife Gardens. As a team we support each other, celebrate our successes, and participate in the conversation we are creating here. And we will honor each other in times of sadness. Our team [...]
I have so much to be grateful for, even during a period of such sadness in my life. I am thankful for the beauty of nature around me, for the birds that sing in my wildlife garden, and the peace and comfort I find there. And I’m grateful to all of you who have supported [...]
I’ve been in Florida for the past several weeks taking care of my mom who is quite ill. One thing I’ve learned from Susan J. Tweit about this process is that it’s really important to find the beauty of nature around me each day. In this way I am able to find some peace and [...]
Ecosystem Gardening is about giving something back to wildlife by healing the wounds caused by human activity in the environment. We can help by creating welcoming habitat for wildlife in our gardens, and when we band together with our neighbors and communities, we can create habitat corridors that give back so much more. This [...]
Ecosystem Gardening is about creating welcoming habitat for wildlife on your property, protecting the environment, and working to heal some of the wounds we’ve inflicted on the earth. This is part 2 of my series on healing these wounds, and today we’ll be talking about the wound of habitat loss. Dave Foreman in Rewilding North America: [...]
The primary goal of Ecosystem Gardening is to learn to give a little back to wildlife in our gardens. We have taken away so much habitat for wildlife in our quest for endless development. We can give a little back to wildlife by creating welcoming habitat in our gardens. We can learn to share our space [...]
Passenger Pigeons Extinct Martha the Passenger Pigeon, the last of her kind, died alone in the Cincinnati Zoo on September 1, 1914. I was 9 years old when I first read about Martha’s death, alone in the zoo, and the story of the destruction and elimination of the Passenger Pigeon by human actions has stuck in [...]
After my discovery of Sara Stein’s Noah’s Garden, I set about trying to learn everything I could about using an ecological approach to creating welcoming habitats for wildlife in our gardens. I devoured Sara’s next book, Planting Noah’s Garden: Further Explorations in Backyard Ecology, but I was missing something. I was lonely. My clients wanted [...]
I have a confession to make: I am an obsessive reader. If I want to know something I’ll read everything that I can find on a subject and then form my own opinions based on the best information I’ve found. I’ve been told my house looks more like a library, since there are books in [...]
It’s been well over twenty years since a tiny Chickadee called to me, and I learned to listen to her sweet voice which put me on my path of learning how to create welcoming habitat for birds and other wildlife in our gardens. At this time there was very little information about creating wildlife habitat [...]
