Native Plant Heroes
🌸 Native Plant Spotlight: Wild Columbine 🌸 One of spring’s most enchanting native wildflowers is Wild Columbine (Aquilegia canadensis). Its graceful red-and-yellow, nodding blooms seem to float above delicate blue-green
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Neighbors for Nature
Students at Benjamin Franklin Middle School transformed a section of their school courtyard into a thriving native pollinator garden through hands-on learning, teamwork, and environmental stewardship. Sixth and seventh graders
🌼 Explore Outdoors Challenge: Find 5 Native Flowers! 🌼
How many native wildflowers can you discover on your next walk? Your challenge is simple:🌿 Find 5 native flowering plants in your yard, neighborhood, local park, or nature preserve.📸 Take
Buzz & Bloom
🌾 Southeastern Grasslands Feature: America’s Most Overlooked Ecosystem Grasslands of the Southeast are some of the most diverse—and most threatened—ecosystems in North America. Once stretching across vast portions of the
Small Ripple Effects, Lasting Impacts: Habitat Fragmentation
🌿 Habitat Fragmentation: Why It Matters & What You Can Do As cities grow and roads expand, natural habitats are often broken into smaller, isolated patches—a process called habitat fragmentation.
Week of June 22nd – 28th
Unearth A Story – Up in the Garden, Down in the Dirt Unearth A Story invites preschoolers to dig into the wonders beneath their feet through stories, sensory play, and
Week of May 11th-15th
I don’t have any events this week. I am prepping for next week’s events and starting prep for June’s events. I am working up at Cherokee Veteran’s Park this week
Sparrows affected by Pesticides
Neonics caused sparrows to drop a quarter of their body weight in three days. Sparrows eating pesticide laden seeds lost their ability to travel north. Affected sparrows lingered two to
Decline in Songbirds due to Chemical Use
Bird biodiversity is declining. There is a 29% total bird decline since 1970. Birds are a critical part of the living tapestry. When birds decline, pest increases and pollination decreases.
Cypress Trees In North Carolina older than 2,000 years
Dendrochronology is the scientific method of dating trees based on their rings. David Stahle, a professor a the University of Arkansas first visited the Black River area in the 1980s
Prairie Strips add Benefits for Farmers
Gary Guthrie, an Iowa farmer, did an experiment on his farm. He added three prairie strips to his crops. Gary realized after hearing the buzz and hum of pollinators, how
Chesapeake Bay Islands are Disappearing
Abandoned islands and vanishing communities is becoming the norm in Chesapeake Bay. Since the 1600s, based on some accounts, there are 400 drowned islands. Holland island is now just a