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PRFCT Perspectives is our online magazine featuring stories about
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  • The Georgica Pond Preserve

    The Georgica Pond Preserve

    In fall 2025, Perfect Earth teamed up with partners Peconic Land Trust, Whitmores, and Piazza Horticultural, the nature-based branch of Whitmores, to add screening plants and create an educational programming space to the recently restored Georgica Pond Preserve in Wainscott, NY.

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  • Yes Deer

    Yes Deer

    For more than two decades, Nancy Lawson has been living in harmony with deer. Sure, they’re in her Maryland yard every single day. Yes, they come to eat, rest, and, occasionally, rut. But, no, they don’t destroy her garden. In fact, it’s thriving.

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  • Show Them You Care

    Show Them You Care

    “What does aesthetics have to do with ecology?” asks Joan Nassauer. Turns out a lot. A professor of landscape architecture at the University of Michigan, Nassauer has been studying how to make ecological gardens more acceptable and accessible. Several decades ago, she coined the phrase “cues to care,” which has now become a catch phrase…

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  • Close the Loop

    Close the Loop

    Nature is resourceful. It doesn’t pay for mulch or fertilizer or hire a team to blow away leaves. It doesn’t bag up grass clippings and send them to the landfill. And it doesn’t chop down dead trees or branches and truck them away. It makes everything it needs and uses everything it makes. Leaves feed…

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  • A Growing Business: Hyper Local Native Plant Nurseries

    A Growing Business: Hyper Local Native Plant Nurseries

    Time for a bit of good news. More people are growing native plants. According to the National Gardening Association, the number of people buying them has nearly doubled since 2019. And while it can still be challenging to find native plants at garden centers around the country, small, hyper-local native plant nurseries are popping up…

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  • Keeping a Community Blooming

    Keeping a Community Blooming

    When the realities of climate change start to feel overwhelming, focus on local action. Research shows that small habitats can have a big impact on biodiversity. As homeowners begin to take action in their own yards, some municipalities across the country are leading by example. On the East End of Long Island, the community of…

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  • I Love the Nightlife: Be Kind and Dim the Lights

    I Love the Nightlife: Be Kind and Dim the Lights

    Fireflies will never not be magical. Every time I see them glitter up the sky, I feel like I’m back in my childhood, running barefoot, chasing them through the popsicle-sticky summer air. Nature’s endorphin. But fireflies, like most insects and birds, are in trouble.

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  • Let’s Rethink What a Hedge Can Be

    Let’s Rethink What a Hedge Can Be

    Whether you call it a habitat hedge, wildlife thicket, pocket forest, or bio hedge, a border of native shrubs is a valuable addition to your garden. Here’s why.

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