Create Wildlife Habitat. Protect the Environment
Two years ago today I set out to learn how to build a blog, start a conversation about Ecosystem Gardening, and get to know other passionate wildlife gardeners. What an amazing journey it’s been! Over 400 posts and 2400 comments later, I feel as though we’re just getting started Thanks to all of you who [...]
Ecosystem Gardening is not limited to your backyard, but is a philosophy that can extend to churches, schools, businesses, and other community open spaces. My friend Catherine Zimmerman has written eloquently about churches using the principles of Ecosystem Gardening, reducing the size of their lawn, and creating welcoming habitat for wildlife. Ruth Parnall is a [...]
It’s easy to assume that you can’t possibly make a difference for wildlife from your small share of the planet. But every positive choice you make in your garden can actually make a huge difference for the wildlife in your area. And when you help your neighbors make better decisions the benefit to wildlife is [...]
You may recall that several months ago I changed the name of this site from “Conservation Gardening” to “Ecosystem Gardening” because I felt it better represented what I am trying to express here. Most of you seemed to agree with that change, but until today my web address was still conservationgardening.com. Through the magic that [...]
Many wildlife species are habitat specialists, which means they have very specific needs for habitat for their survival. It is these species that are most vulnerable to extinction, and many of them are already listed as threatened or endangered. Other species are generalists, and are able to survive in many habitats, even those dominated by [...]
Over the past few weeks I’ve been taking you on visits to the private gardens of folks who have made helping wildlife the primary focus of their gardening efforts. The photographs of these gardens, as well as the photos I use in every post here, were taken by me to illustrate the fact that the [...]
I received this question in a comment on another post and thought I would answer it here for anyone else who is interested: I don’t know anything about which birds migrate through my area yet. I know that there are some Kansas lakes which birders visit to see migratory waterfowl, but other than that I’m [...]
I’ve been working pretty hard to tell you what I mean by “Conservation Gardening” (See What is Conservation Gardening and The Language of Conservation Gardening), but now I need your feedback, so thank you in advance for the suggestions you’ll leave in the comments below. I have been told that the word “Conservation” feels like [...]
Life has been so hectic lately. First, my laptop had to go the the black-hole hell of the Geek Squad support hospital because my wireless card had stopped working. After being without it for three weeks, an inept but apologetic employee called to tell me that while my laptop was back from the black hole, [...]
Palmerton, PA Imagine my surprise when, on the last full day of my vacation in the mountains of the Lehigh Valley in Eastern Pennsylvania, I discovered that the town in which I had been staying, Palmerton, PA, was the site of one of the largest EPA Superfund clean-up sites east of the Mississippi River. This [...]
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