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Who's Promoting the Spread of Invasive Plants? May 28, 2025

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Dr. Eve Beaury's research reveals the outsize role American gardeners still play in supporting the propagation and spread of plants that are known to be invasive.

An Ecological Gardening Firm's 12-Step Program May 21, 2025

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Plan it Wild's "Less Lawn More Life" challenge offers a fun, easy, and free initiation into natural gardening that's exploding across the country, drawing thousands of ecosystem novices young and old

The Overlooked Virtues of Native Annual Flowers May 14, 2025

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Alicia Houk, natural garden designer and educator, describes how native, reseeding annuals can make your plantings self-renewing, weed resistant, and resilient in the face of disturbance

A Local Activist With a National Impact May 07, 2025

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Co-founder of Pollinator Pathway, Louise Washer saw this project go viral, spreading from one Connecticut community to nationwide in just 8 years. Listen as she shares the approach that has made her other environmental activism so effective.

A Low-Cost Swimming Pool that Saves Energy and Serves Biodiversity Apr 30, 2025

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Jennifer Campbell, a sustainable landscape designer in New Hampshire, built herself a natural swimming pool that saves energy, nurtures native plants, serves wildlife, and cost her only $10,000 to install.

Helping Native Plants Outrun Climate Change Apr 23, 2025

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Assisted migration, helping native plants move to escape the effects of a rapidly changing climate, is a controversial topic among ecologists. Thomas Nuhfer of the University of Massachusetts Amherst shares a new understanding of how to make these moves without destabilizing existing ecosystems.

A Conversation with Growing Greener's New Partner Apr 16, 2025

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Award-winning landscape designer Edwina von Gal describes her Perfect Earth Project's dual approach to changing the culture of land care in the United States: building a constituency among land owners and gardeners for ecologically-based, toxin-free design and maintenance while educating landscapers in how to serve this new market.

DOGE is Destroying an Essential, Inexpensive Foundation of American Agricultural Greatness Apr 09, 2025

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The National Plant Germplasm System has protected U.S. farmers against crop diseases and now climate change for over a century; DOGE has defunded its $40 million annual budget, imperiling our $1.5 trillion food system

The Lawn Mower as Ecological Design Tool Apr 02, 2025

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Award-winning landscape architect Michael Geffel describes how he used precisely targeted and timed mowing to convert a brownfield into a flowering grassland and a vibrant public recreation area.

Slugs "Don't Get No Respect" Mar 26, 2025

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Slugs are the Rodney Dangerfield of garden wildlife – our only interest is in exterminating them. Yet as Dr. Jann Vendetti of the Los Angeles County Natural History Museum explains, they lead fascinating and, in many ways, very useful lives

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