Your yard is a salad bowl
One of the most common questions I receive is “How do I get rid of the rabbits or voles in my yard? If I had an answer or solution, I’d be a millionaire but at the same time I wouldn’t want to remove them because this is their home too! Both are...Dark Skies Matter
Light pollution problems and some suggestions for preventing/reducing light pollution.
Love fruits, flowers, seeds, nuts or veggies? Thank native ground nesting bees
Native ground nesting bee, sometimes called miner bees, make up 70 percent of Illinois 500 native bee species. Although they are important pollinators, most people know very little about them and still treat them as pests.
Active Hope for Wildlife
Wildlife are in crisis, as more and more natural areas and open spaces are destroyed by development and industrial farming. Add on pollution, invasive species, global warming, and many other problems. Resource: Worldwide decline of the entomofauna. Instead of feeling...
A Living Mulch – Allowing Plants to spread as Nature intended
We humans, including myself, were taught to maintain our gardens unnaturally by growing plants spaced apart ,separated by wood mulch around each plant. If we want a natured based, environmentally friendly garden we must allow plants to spread and fill in all the bare areas of a garden as a living mulch. This is the way nature has been gardening for thousands of years!