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Welcome to My New Digs

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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 is [...]

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Helping Wildlife with Specialized Habitat Needs in Your Ecosystem Garden

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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 human [...]

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A Visit to YOUR Garden

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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 simple [...]

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How to Find Which Birds Migrate Through Your Garden

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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 clueless. [...]

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Ecosystem Gardening vs. Conservation Gardening. Thoughts?

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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 homework [...]

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Vacation, a Superfund Cleanup Site, No Internet Access

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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, [...]

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Palmerton, PA sometimes Mother Nature Gets a Second Chance, Part 1

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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 is [...]

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Conservation Gardening Weekly Best of the Web

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I thought I’d share some wonderful articles from around the web this week. It is great to see so many other writers committed to the principles of Conservation Gardening. So here, not in any particular order, is what I read this week:

Joel Gillespie wrote about Obsessively Green Gardening, where he touched on many of the [...]

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The Language of Conservation Gardening: Being Specific

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There are many similar or related terms to Conservation Gardening being used which may be causing some confusion. These terms include: organic gardening, habitat gardening for wildlife, ecological gardening, sustainable landscaping/gardening, xeriscaping, natural gardening, and more. For the purpose of clarity, I’ll discuss these terms and their relation to Conservation Gardening so that we will [...]

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Bird Conservation: a web tour

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Today I thought I’d give you a short virtual tour of the many ways you can help birds from  around the internet. Every small action that each of us takes can amount to huge differences for birds and other wildlife.

Here’s another example of the dangers of invasive plants as seabird nesting colonies are now facing [...]

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