Native Bees and Your Garden
Winter/Spring 2023 The native bees in and around our gardens face ever-increasing environmental pressures as they carry out their pollination duties. More than a quarter…
Plants: Pollinators
Voices of the West; New Science on Life in the Garden
Did you know that oaks can harbor over 800 species of insects? That includes only those feeding directly on oak, where they feed on every…
Calochortophilia: A Californian’s Love Affair with a Genus
Summer 2022 I can chart the progression of my life by Calochortus. For the last two decades, at least. As a teenage girl growing up…
Growing a New Generation of Farmers, One Plot at a Time
Summer 2022 Duane Lane, a Yakama tribal descendant, spends his weekdays working in Portland as a resource navigator for the Oregon Native American Chamber of…
Musqueam Indigenous Pollinator Plant Map
Spring 2022 Apart from helping pollinators like butterflies and wild bees, the Butterflyway Project started in 2017 to explore the relationship between indigenous plants and…
Healing Gardens
Spring 2022 Emily Murphy believes gardens hold the key to saving our health, our communities, and our planet. In her new book Grow Now Murphy…
Your Keystone Plant Matrix with Garden Futurist Doug Tallamy
Spring 2022 Listen to the full Garden Futurist: Episode XIV podcast here. If you take Keystone plants out of your local food web, the food…
Your Urban Backyard Habitat Can Support Biodiversity
Spring 2022 Backyard habitat plays an important role in maintaining the natural value of urban ecosystems. I spent my whole career looking at whether urban…
The Solution Sparkles with Butterflies
Winter 2022 John, Linda, and the Fennel Community With the familiar weight of the iPad balanced in my left hand, I gestured with my right…