When Kate Ford and her husband bought their home in 2008, the landscape was all rocks and grass because the previous owner “didn’t like plants.” They have since made it into a DIY Biodiversity Heaven! Kate was “lit up” about native plants by a friend with Black-eyed Susans that attracted pollinators and birds. They dug […]
Biodiversity Paradise: Kate in Rochester Hills, MI Read More »
The Muscatine Pollinator Project took over acres of old unused farm land that had gone to weed to create a 55 acre Pollinator Park inside the City limits of Muscatine.
New York City is essentially a giant ecologic scar with hard, impermeable surfaces stretching out over hundreds of square miles. Natural green spaces are relegated to a few places here and there, and trees poking out of sidewalks struggle to survive. Can an Idea like Homegrown National Park™ even work in a place where habitat fragmentation is so extreme?
Native Planting in Big Cities / by Banford Weissmann Read More »