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How (and Why) to do a Biodiversity Audit in Your Backyard
Read more: How (and Why) to do a Biodiversity Audit in Your BackyardIt’s no secret that biodiversity is in decline: North America has lost close to 3 billion birds since the 1970s, and insects are disappearing just as quickly. More than a third of plants are also at risk of extinction. A gloomy picture, to say the least, but unlike much of the bad news about the…
Bringing Biodiversity Back
Read more: Bringing Biodiversity Back“We have declared 2024 the year of milkweed,” says Andi Pettis, director of horticulture at Governors Island. For the past couple of years, Pettis and her team have been busy incorporating milkweed into the island’s plantings.
Fertile Ground: Silvopastures, Sheep, Sustainability, and more!
Read more: Fertile Ground: Silvopastures, Sheep, Sustainability, and more!“It really felt like the land called us here,” says Michele Logan of Maranatha, her 73-acre farm in the Somerset Hills of New Jersey that practices and models conservation and stewardship, permaculture, regenerative agroforestry, and water management.
Radicle Thinking: Going for 100
Read more: Radicle Thinking: Going for 100How long can we live? Can we try to live extra-long by learning from the extra old? Old people, old communities, old trees? There are a large number of studies out now about commonalities for longevity—healthy food, healthy lifestyle, healthy attitude . . .
Manitoga: An American Treasure
Read more: Manitoga: An American Treasure“I am more interested in nature than any other subject,” says Russel Wright, the influential mid-century industrial designer, who believed that good design was for everyone and created the best-selling dinnerware line in U.S. history. He channeled his passion for nature into Manitoga . . .
Wear Weirdness on Your Sleeve
Read more: Wear Weirdness on Your SleeveOn a recent Friday afternoon, I arrived at Chanticleer Garden feeling weighed down by a sense of bleakness about the world. Although I’d vowed to read the news for only ten minutes, even that left me with a heaviness I couldn’t shake. Two hours later, after hearing Chanticleer horticulturist Tim Erdmann speak of how art…
Protecting our Beaches with the Naples Botanical Garden
Read more: Protecting our Beaches with the Naples Botanical GardenI love the beach. I’ve spent at least part of every summer since I was born on the same small barrier island off the southern tip of New Jersey—swimming, looking at tidepools, rejoicing when I spy a piping plover patter by the water’s edge, and generally breathing easier. It’s my happy place and I’d like…
PRFCT Moment: Edwina’s Bee Beach
Read more: PRFCT Moment: Edwina’s Bee BeachBees need pesticide-free flowers for nectar. They need safe places to rest and to nest. For some that is open stems in which to lay their brood for the coming year, for others it is mud—little potters building their homes.