It’s time for our weekly visit to an Ecosystem Garden, showcasing the many ways you can help wildlife in your garden. If you would like to see your garden for wildlfie featured here, please read A Visit to YOUR Garden. Many thanks to Irma McVey for submitting these beautiful photos for this Ecosystem Garden Showcase. [...]
A Visit to Cindy Ahern’s Conservation Garden
It is time to start looking at the principles of Ecosystem Gardening in practice, and to start this series off, I made a visit to the wonderful wildlife garden created by Cindy Ahern. Cindy enthusiastically met me at the sidewalk with binoculars in hand. She was surprised that I did not have my binocular, but [...]
Butterfly numbers plunge by 50 percent
Butterfly lovers have noticed an alarming trend–butterfly numbers are down over 50 percent this year. The North American Butterfly Association (NABA) has sponsored butterfly counts since 1992, and has noted significant drops in butterfly populations this year. Pat Sutton is a founding member of NABA and has participated in these counts since their inception. To [...]
How to Certify your Conservation Garden for Wildlife
Having your Conservation Garden listed as certified wildlife habitat is a great way to show your support for several organizations working to protect wildlife by encouraging folks to make healthy choices on their properties that benefit wildlife. And by adopting these methods of making beneficial decisions you will be well on your way to creating [...]
What does Conservation Gardening mean?
Conservation Gardening Conservation Gardening views every property — whether a small residential backyard or acres of woodland or the grounds surrounding your business– as an ecosystem. If each of us takes personal responsibility for the health of the wildlife on our property, we can improve the health of our planet. Because habitat loss due to [...]
Pat Sutton: Ecosystem Gardening Hero
I first met Pat Sutton at a New Jersey Audubon Fall Weekend in Cape May, NJ. She enthusiastically led the listing of the day’s butterfly sightings. She was so passionate about the butterflies and also about the Diamondback Terrapins who were laying their eggs along the beaches that I knew I just had to meet [...]
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