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🏡🌿 Neighbors for Nature: What If an Entire Community Grew with Nature? 🌿🦋
Read story →: 🏡🌿 Neighbors for Nature: What If an Entire Community Grew with Nature? 🌿🦋Imagine moving into a neighborhood where native plants, wildlife habitat, healthy soils, and conservation are part of the community from the very beginning. That’s what’s happening at Sunbridge in St. Cloud, Florida,…
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🍂🌾 Explore Outdoors: Go on a Fall Seed Hunt! 🌾🍂
Read story →: 🍂🌾 Explore Outdoors: Go on a Fall Seed Hunt! 🌾🍂Fall is a wonderful time to explore nature—not just for colorful leaves, but for seeds! As summer flowers fade, plants are busy preparing for the next generation. This week’s Explore Outdoors Challenge…
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🌿🦋 Test Your Nature Knowledge! 🦋🌿
Read story →: 🌿🦋 Test Your Nature Knowledge! 🦋🌿How closely have you been following Nature on the Brink this week? We explored Field Pussytoes, the American Lady butterfly, autumn seed season, bee hotels, and the connections that turn our yards…
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🌸🦋 Buzz & Bloom: Field Pussytoes + American Lady Butterfly 🦋🌸
Read story →: 🌸🦋 Buzz & Bloom: Field Pussytoes + American Lady Butterfly 🦋🌸Sometimes one of the most important plants in a butterfly garden is also one of the smallest! This week’s Buzz & Bloom celebrates the connection between Field Pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta) and the…
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🍂🌾 Habitat Connections: Autumn Seed Season 🌾🐦
Read story →: 🍂🌾 Habitat Connections: Autumn Seed Season 🌾🐦As autumn arrives and flowers begin to fade, something important is happening in our gardens and natural areas: seed season has begun! Those dried flower heads and grasses that may look “finished”…
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🦋🌼 Pollinator/Wildlife Spotlight: American Lady Butterfly 🌼🦋
Read story →: 🦋🌼 Pollinator/Wildlife Spotlight: American Lady Butterfly 🌼🦋With brilliant orange wings and bold black-and-white markings, the American Lady (Vanessa virginiensis) is a beautiful visitor to gardens, meadows, roadsides, and other open habitats. But its story begins long before the…
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🌿🌸 Native Plant Highlight: Field Pussytoes 🌸🌿
Read story →: 🌿🌸 Native Plant Highlight: Field Pussytoes 🌸🌿Small plants can make a big difference for wildlife! Meet Field Pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta), a charming native groundcover whose soft, fuzzy flower clusters resemble tiny cat paws—giving this little wildflower its memorable…
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🏡🦋 Neighbors for Nature: Growing Habitat—and Community—Together 🌿
Read story →: 🏡🦋 Neighbors for Nature: Growing Habitat—and Community—Together 🌿What happens when neighbors decide that helping wildlife is something they can do together? At Front Porch communities in California, residents turned concern for declining monarch butterflies into a collaborative conservation effort.…
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🐝🏡 Explore Outdoors: Build a Bee Hotel! 🌿
Read story →: 🐝🏡 Explore Outdoors: Build a Bee Hotel! 🌿Did you know that many of our native bees don’t live in hives? Unlike honey bees, many native species are solitary bees. Some make their nests in hollow or pithy plant stems…