One of my goals this year is to keep up with the writings of wildlife gardeners around the web. The end of the year got crazy, and this is one activity that I dearly missed. Here’s a brief list of some writers I’m watching: New Ecosystem Gardening Discoveries: Kevin Campbell writes Finding Plant Treasures in the [...]
Ecosystem Gardening Resource Guide
Is Ecosystem Gardening too hard to learn? We talked about that recently, and my point was if we can learn to use an iphone we can learn to make the best choices possible to help wildlife in our gardens. And to help us learn to create the best habitats for wildlife in our gardens, here [...]
Conserving Biodiversity With Native Plants
I was honored this weekend to present the keynote address at the Indiana Native Plant and Wildflower Society (INPAWS) annual conference, and to be in the company of several other wonderful speakers. The day kicked off with my presentation, “Why Native Plants are Essential to Biodiversity.” We covered the Five Pillars of Ecosystem Gardening: Sustainable [...]
Wildlife Garden Weekly #3
Happy Halloween! The Great Leaf Conversation What do you do with your fallen leaves? Several of us have been discussing the pros and cons of autumn leaves: Kylee Baumle, The Problem with Leaves Beautiful Wildlife Garden Who Lives in the Leaves? Genevieve Schmidt, Finding the Middle Ground Between Neat and Natural Heather Holm, Leave the [...]
Wildlife Garden Weekly #2
Wildlife Garden is a term that is showing up more and more lately. There are so many great writers and people doing amazing things in their wildlife gardens that it’s sometimes daunting to keep up with. So I’m going to start collecting them here in one place so that you can enjoy them, too. [Remember, [...]
Wildlife Garden Weekly
There are so many great writers and people doing amazing things in their wildlife gardens that it’s sometimes daunting to keep up with. So I’m going to start collecting them here in one place so that you can enjoy them, too. [Remember, if you don't want to lose your place, right click the link and [...]
Ecosystem Gardening Community Forum
I’m so happy to announce the brand spankin new Ecosystem Gardening Community Forum, a place to gather and meet other Ecosystem Gardeners. Stop by and: Introduce yourself–tell us where you garden and what you’re doing for wildlife Tell us (or show us) what native plants are blooming in your garden Give us your best ideas [...]
Best of the Web #22 Louisiana Oil Spill, Greening Your Lawn, Installing a Bat House
If you use twitter at all, you may be familiar with the Follow Friday concept, where people recommend people for you to follow. While this is well-intentioned, some people send out long lists of people that simply make my eyes glaze over. I’ve been doing Best of the Web here for some time and I [...]
Sustainable Gardening, wildlife garden chores, agaves, and Wild Gardens, Best of Web 21
I’ve been a busy little bee trying to launch a new project, but I’m also trying to get back on our regularly scheduled program here. To that end let’s take a look at the Best of the Web for this week. Remember that if you want to open the links in a new page/tab, you [...]
Community Gardens, Gold Medal Plants, Giving Back:Best of the Web 20
It’s that time again. Time for our weekly meander around the internets to see what’s new, exciting, or noteworthy. I read a lot, so I like to share with you some of the interesting things I find in my travels. [Note: if you want to open the link in a new tab/window, right click the [...]
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