Gardeners Unite to Save Wildlife

Gardeners can unite to save wildlife

When it comes to wildlife conservation, the Brits are often way ahead of us. But the good news is that we can learn from them and do our best to catch up. In Gardeners must unite to save Britain’s wildlife, experts say there are some great tips for uniting with other gardeners in your neighborhood to [...]

Why your garden matters to wildlife

Did you know that habitat loss due to human action is the number one reason why wildlife species are declining? Well, it’s true, but you can help reverse this trend by making some smart choices in your garden that will provide welcoming habitats to birds, butterflies, native pollinators, frogs, toads, and small mammals. It’s just [...]

Sharing the Wonders of Nature with Children in Your Ecosystem Garden

Last week I gave my four year old neighbor a small handheld magnifying glass which was an immediate hit with her. We walked around the garden looking at EVERYTHING. We found empty locust shells, butterfly chrysali, bees, and all manner of other bugs and every find spurred a flood of questions: “Why did it lose [...]

Why Your Ecosystem Garden Matters, Even When We Already Have Protected Lands

Your ecosystem garden plays an important role for wildlife

I’ve been asked this question many times so I thought I’d answer it here so we can discuss it. “We have national and state parks, wildlife refuges, Nature Conservancy properties, and many others. Isn’t that enough?” In a word, no. Many national and state lands are subject to “multiple use” clauses, which may include logging, [...]

The Power of Doing Just One Thing in Your Ecosystem Garden

Frogs and Toads are in great danger You can help them in your wildlife garden

Imagine if Doing Just One Thing Could Really Make a Difference for Wildlife I know this sounds hokey, but it’s true. We could make a huge difference for our local wildlife if each of us chose just one item to do in our wildlife garden. Really. You don’t have to redesign the landscape of your [...]

Awe and wonder always welcome in the garden

I was reminded this week of my “third Grandma” (my Aunt’s mother) and the sense of awe and wonder she instilled in me as we spent weekends at her house during my childhood.  For her every natural event, “critter” sighting, flower in bloom, or ripened tomato was cause for celebration and wonder. She would even [...]

Health Care Reform in Your Garden Say Yes to the Public Option and No to Big Pharma

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Don’t worry, we are not going to suddenly wade into the murky and scary world of the politics of healthcare reform, and we are not going to debate this concept here, but this debate gives us some wonderful language from which to illustrate the concepts of Ecosystem Gardening and how your actions can really make [...]

Ecosystem Services and Your Ecosystem Garden: how your property contributes to healthy ecosystems

Ecosystem Services The World Resources Institute published an article describing how corporations can contribute to the health of essential ecosystem services.  Our goal here is to show how every one of us can make the same contribution in our gardens. A healthy, intact ecosystem provides many critical services on which we as humans are dependent [...]

I love nature, but I have no love for ticks!

Several weeks ago I went on a hunt for rare butterflies in South Jersey with my friend, Pat Sutton. As we bushwhacked through abandoned cranberry bogs in search of butterfly denizens of such locations, I began to notice that we were covered with ticks. Eeeew! Confession time: I have to admit that  as much as [...]

The New Monkey and your Conservation Garden: Everything is Connected

In Sunday’s New York Times, Natalie Angier wrote about the discovery of a newly discovered monkey species, the Saddleback Tamarin in the Brazilian Amazon. Since the 2005 summary of the worlds mammal species (totaling 5400 species) another 400 species have been discovered. This may lead you to say to yourself “See, there’s no problem with [...]

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