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October 17, 2023
Wild Hope, Margaret Renkl & Margaret Roach Webinar, Leave the Leaves
ARCHIVE
October 3, 2023
Message from Brandon Hough, Planting Calculator, Facebook Group
August 12, 2023
HNP in the News: You're Lighting Us Up!
June 20, 2023
Executive Director Announcement
May 22, 2023
Biodiversity Day by Doug Tallamy
March 14,2023
Designing A Small Meadow Garden With Commonly-Available Native Plants with Benjamin Vogt
January 31, 2023
4 Universal Landscape Goals
January 5, 2023
Why Ecoregions? And More Exciting News for the New Year!
October 12, 2022
Container Gardening with Keystones, Every Square Foot of Native Plants Count!
AUGUST 10, 2022
Join the Grassroots Solution to the Biodiversity Crisis!
JULY 25, 2022
Monarch Butterfly Listed as Endangered
JULY 1, 2022
New Article about Lawns by Margaret Roach in The New York Times
JUNE 1, 2022
Who Lights Us Up?
MAY 22, 2022
Biodiversity Day
FEBRUARY 14, 2022 E-NEWS
Happy Valentine’s Day!
DECEMBER 30, 2021 E-NEWS
Lovejoy and Wilson have spoken; now it's time to act
DECEMBER 15, 2021 E-NEWS
Announcing a downloadable & customizable brochure about the biodiversity crisis
20 for 20 CAMPAIGN
Call to action for turning the biodiversity crisis into a thriving ecosystem
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021 NEWSLETTER
When Landscape Artists Take the Lead; Hastings Pollinator Pathway; Newport News Extension Master Gardeners
JUNE 23, 2021 NEWSLETTER
Muscatine Pollinator Project; Prairie Strips; A Formal Native Garden
MARCH 30, 2021 NEWSLETTER
Doug’s new book - The Nature of Oaks; Native Planting in Big Cities
FEBRUARY 23, 2021 NEWSLETTER
Get on the Map; Yard Signs Available
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MESSAGES FROM DOUG
MICHELLE'S MUSINGS
Thanks to RLEP’s [Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection] efforts we can offer everyone the share-worthy, downloadable & customizable brochure about the biodiversity crisis, HNP and what each of us can do to “get started” and get ON THE MAP!
We are thrilled that we have so many entries on the Homegrown National Park® MAP representing acres and acres of land planted native!!
Big THANK YOU to all you early-adopters for taking the initiative to GET ON THE MAP!, for being ‘influencers’, for supporting the HNP call-to-action, for expressing your enthusiasm and encouraging others to get on the MAP. YOU cannot know how much your action and comments mean to Doug and me. We THANK YOU so much! HELP US SPREAD THE WORD!
GUEST POSTS
Designing a Small Meadow Garden with Commonly-Available Native Plants – Benjamin Vogt
Finding the Right Native Plants It’s easy to be overwhelmed at the nursery shopping for new plants, especially when you want to create a wildlife habitat. And plant tags seldom provide enough or even the right information to make informed decisions suitable for our specific site conditions. For example, a plant tag will discuss light […]
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RLEP Lights Us Up!
Thank you Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection! RLEP’s efforts generously empower us to offer everyone the share-worthy, downloadable & customizable brochure about the biodiversity crisis, HNP and what each of us can do to “get started” and get ON THE MAP!
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NEWPORT NEWS EXTENSION MASTER GARDENERS raising awareness with Homegrown National Park yard signs and more!
The Newport News Extension Master Gardeners “influencers” are showing off their signs and encouraging others to GET ON THE HOMEGROWN NATIONAL PARK® MAP through their Garden for Nature Program. They have registered 13 sites from their city on the MAP, bought HNP yards signs in bulk to provide free of charge to members who get “on the MAP.” WOW!!!!
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When politicians are facilitators in regenerating biodiversity
We think planting native is a luxury partially because we can take action without asking permission or needing legislation. Sometimes MAGIC happens when permission is sought and a public official, a volunteer conservation organization and landscape architect get together – and that is just what happened in Hastings-on-Hudson.
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