Welcome to the first episode in the series to meet the Team at Beautiful Wildlife Garden. You may recall that Beautiful Wildlife Garden came about after a discussion between Helen Yoest and I about how nice it would be if we could start a conversation that redefined beautiful. We hoped to help people begin to [...]
The Interview That Launched a Dream
I told you about how a long-time dream of mine to develop a community of gardeners to redefine what is beautiful in the wildlife garden came about while Helen Yoest interviewed me for her show on WebTalkRadio. And I’m so thrilled at the response we’re getting at Beautiful Wildlife Garden. The exciting news is that interview that [...]
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 [...]
Best of the Web 17: insects, birds, and the power of One
It’s that time again, a review of the best things I found while meandering around the internets this week. Hard to believe we’re up to #17, but you all just keeping writing such good stuff to tell everyone about! First, the Barred Owl above spent 8 years wintering in and around my garden. Sadly, this [...]
Best of the Web: New Year Edition
I had a wonderful Christmas with my family and an amazing New Year with friends. I’m feeling so blessed! I did have an unexpected forced absence from my computer, though. My hard drive picked that week to crash. No twitter, no Facebook, and no blogging. I’m pleased to say that my computer has been returned [...]
Christmas Tree Becomes Wildlife Tree
I meant to write today, really I did. But I was caught up in Holiday preparations and am just now seeing that Helen Yoest has come pretty close to writing the post that I intended to present to you today. So instead of repeating the fine things Helen has said, why not just head over [...]
And the Winner Is…..
Yes, I know, I was supposed to announce this yesterday, but if you live anywhere from Virginia to New England you probably already know how I spent my day yesterday–shoveling. The Philadelphia area was blessed with about 2 feet of snow, which we valiantly attempted to keep off our stairs and sidewalk. It was a [...]
A Visit to Helen Yoest's Ecosystem Garden
(Editor’s note: We have a very special treat in store today. This is a guest post by Helen Yoest of Gardening with Confidence. Helen Yoest is a garden writer, garden speaker, garden coach, garden scout, garden designer, essentially if it has to do with gardening, Helen is the queen. I’m honored that Helen has chosen [...]
Ecosystem Gardening Best of the Web #7
Let’s continue our weekly exploration of the things that grabbed my attention this week. We’ve got Helen’s lawn reduction plan, cities creating habitat for wildlife, green roofs providing habitat for birds, an interview of me, stinkbugs, First, a shameless plug. I had the honor this week of being interviewed by Wendy Gabriel, the Fargo Green [...]
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