When native plants thrive, the entire ecosystem thrives, too. What to know about native plants, and how they are crucial to our ecosystems first appeared on The Cool Down.

Discover why planting native plants in your yard, no matter how small, is crucial for supporting wildlife, pollinators, and the health of ecosystems.

In the garden In her book “Plant This, Not That,” Elise Howard offers more than 200 substitution ideas for invasive plants.

Households across the West are increasingly ditching the smooth green lawns of the stereotypical American dream and attempting to grow native plants instead — a practice Indigenous communities ...

Having native plants in a garden can create a good environment for caterpillars, which are hearty food for birds Dario Sanches via Wikimedia Commons under CC By-SA 2.0 As a boy growing up in the 1960s ...

Kim Frisbie writes that the island's gardens need native plants because native insects depend on them. Adding them can ...

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It is possible to grow edible native plants in your yard without angering your neighbors and violating the rules of your HOA, ...

Technically, we are in the middle of spring, but it seems as though summer has arrived as our daytime temperature is above 90℉ many days. Yet, according to the Farmer’s almanac, we have roughly six ...

A free film screening about Indigenous agriculture and food sovereignty will show at Totem Hall on March 19. “This [film] is a very specific example of how colonization has continuing effects on all ...

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