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Ecosystem Gardening Best of the Web #13

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My weekly collection of the best resources from around the web, including the things I found most interesting, remarkable, or grabbed my attention.
Part Five of Doug Tallamy’s Timber Press interview is live. View the whole series at Bringing Nature Home to Your Ecosystem Garden.
@habitatgarden brings us another winner with a great citizen science project: The [...]

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Ecosystem Gardening Best of the Web #11

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Our weekly feature continues with the most fascinating, informational, best-written (or anything else that grabbed my attention) items I discovered around the web this week. There are so many great articles and web sites hiding amidst the clutter. If you’ve seen something great this week, please share it with the rest of us.
The National Wildlife [...]

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Bringing Nature Home to Your Ecosystem Garden

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Doug Tallamy is one of my heroes of Ecosystem Gardening, due in large part to his groundbreaking book, Bringing Nature Home. This book should be read by every homeowner or land manager with an interest in supporting wildlife on your property. He makes an incredible argument as to why native plants play such a crucial [...]

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Ecosystem Gardening Best of the Web #9

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It’s that time of the week again, our weekly look around the web to share with you the most interesting articles and photos for your enjoyment and education. There is so much fascinating information that I like to give you a summary of what caught my attention this week.

Entomologist Nancy Grieg shares her expertise in [...]

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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 Conservation Gardening and how your actions can really make [...]

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Doug Tallamy, meet Richard Louv: How Gardeners can Save the World

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You may have noticed that I am a big fan of Doug Tallamy’s Bringing Nature Home, but now another of my favorite authors thinks so too. If you haven’t yet read this amazing book, drop everything and do so now.
Richard Louv’s Last Child in the Woods brought attention to the plight of “nature deficit disorder.” [...]

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A visit to Pat Sutton's Garden

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I was thrilled last week when I got the chance to visit with Pat Sutton and her husband Clay in their Cape May Garden. It is really a thrill to be in a garden that is buzzing, humming, blooming, chirping, and singing with life!
Doug Tallamy calls the lecture he gives for his book, Bringing Nature [...]

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Doug Tallamy: Ecosystem Gardening Hero

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Importance of Native Plants in the Ecosystem Garden
It has been my feeling for many years that native plants were the key to developing habitats for wildlife in our gardens, but there was no “proof.” Although much has been written on this subject, none of it was based on a scientific exploration of the subject, mainly [...]

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