🌼🐝 Buzz & Bloom: Hoverflies & Goldenrod 🐝🌼
When you see tiny insects hovering effortlessly over late-summer flowers, don’t be so quick to call them bees. Chances are you’ve spotted a hoverfly—one of nature’s unsung pollinators! With their […]
ecosystem
🌿 Why Habitats Matter 🌿
Every bird, bee, butterfly, frog, and fox needs a place to call home. Habitats provide the food, water, shelter, and space wildlife needs to survive and thrive. When native habitats
Creature Feature Tuesday
🐝 Pollinator Spotlight: Common Eastern Bumble Bee 🐝 Don’t let its fuzzy appearance fool you—the Common Eastern Bumble Bee (Bombus impatiens) is one of North America’s hardest-working native pollinators. Unlike
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
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
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
Amazon Jaguars Habitat Loss
In 2019, the Amazon fires caused 500 jaguars to lose their habitat. Fires have destroyed over 4.9 million acres in Bolivia. Bolivia’s landscape is home to several large cat species