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Environmental Conservation @Abelvicent@mastodon.social
· 1mo ago
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🌱 Deep native plant roots do more than anchor plants. They act like underground sponges, absorbing rainwater, reducing flooding, erosion and polluted runoff while improving soil health and storing carbon. Unlike shallow-rooted turf, native plants can reach deep into the soil, helping landscapes withstand drought and heavy rain. They also support pollinators, birds and wildlife. Nature has already designed a powerful water-management system. 🌍 #NativePlants #Nature #SoilHealth #Sustainability
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org
· 1mo ago
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So you rinse it, seal it in a bag with barely damp sphagnum, and set it at the back of the refrigerator for ninety to a hundred and twenty days. In spring you plant it an inch down in a deep pot. Five to seven years later, fruit no corporation ever priced. Bi socair — be still. What are you growing that won't pay off for years? #Foraging #Pawpaw #Gardening #SeedSaving #NativePlants #Herbalism #FoodAsMedicine #Gàidhlig #MastoDaoine #Druid #Folklore #Solarpunk #Cooking 2/2
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wendythedruid @wendythedruid@thistlenfern.org
· 1mo ago
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Prairie is among the most destroyed habitats on this continent, and this is one of its markers. Everything you can see of it is built to be burned off. The taproot goes fifteen feet down into ground nobody has broken since before there was a state there. Some live close to a century. What's the one you'd put in the ground knowing you won't see it finished? #BloomScrolling #GardensOfMastodon #wildflowerhour #NativePlants #Prairie #Gardening #Herbalism #Druid #Folklore #Botany #Solarpunk 2/3
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Erin 🍂 fall is fall 🐦‍⬛ @wearegonnafindout.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
· 1mo ago
Lol. Lmao (Same spot this morning) 🌱 #nativeplants RE:
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@wearegonnafindout.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy
Finished planting the front yard garden patches (still want to add the elderberries off to the side, but basically everything else). Til the next lawn obliteration ... 🌱 #nativeplants 🌎 #ecoregion65
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Erin 🍂 fall is fall 🐦‍⬛ (@wearegonnafindout.bsky.social)

Finished planting the front yard garden patches (still want to add the elderberries off to the side, but basically everything else). Til the next lawn obliteration ... 🌱 #nativeplants 🌎 #ecoregion65

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Flatbush Gardener 🌈 @xris@ecoevo.social
· 1mo ago
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RE: https://ecoevo.social/@xris/117265601977772218 Proud to share that I'm speaking at the Rutgers Department of Entomology Weekly Seminar this Friday, 9/18. The event is hybrid, and will be available via Zoom. The link is available from their web page: https://entomology.rutgers.edu/seminars.html https://flic.kr/p/2sAVAy7 #NativePlants #Insects #Bees #Entomology #Ecology #Gardening #CommunityScience #GardenEcology #HabitatGardening #iNaturalist
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@xris@ecoevo.social
Who do I know online here teaching or studying at Rutgers University in the School of Environmental and Biological Sciences, especially in either the Department of Entomology or Ecology, Evolution, and Natural Resources? #Rutgers #RutgersUniversity #Entomology #Ecology #Evolution #NaturalSciences #BiologicalSciences #Networking
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Seminars - Dept. of Entomology at Rutgers SEBS

Seminars at the Department of Entomology at Rutgers SEBS.

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Rewilding Magazine @rewildingmag@spore.social
· 1mo ago
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If it's fall where you are, it's a great time to plant trees, shrubs and other perennials. Here's how to find the right plants for your region >> #gardening #rewilding #nativeplants #landscaping #ecology #pollinators
How to Shop for Native Plants
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How to Shop for Native Plants

So you want to put native plants in your yard – great! But where do you find them, and how do you know they're the right ones?

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~* Sarah @stellarsarah@mastodon.world
· 1mo ago
This is one of my first season milkweeds. I foraged the seeds from a nearby plant and got them going indoors and everything. This one in particular got eaten to the ground twice. Both times, it came back as twice as many plants. One thing I've been learning this year through gardening is that plants are incredible. They have their limits (our sunflowers didn't recover from being repeatedly chomped), but some of them really spring back. #milkweed #nativePlants #gardening
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Joe Wynne 🌻🚗⛰️ @joewynne@mindly.social
· 2mo ago
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📰 America’s Biggest Irrigated Crop Is Lawn Grass 😬

🌎 U.S.: With 40+ million acres of turf blanketing the country, experts warn that our yards have become ecological dead zones, in the midst of rapid insect and bird population declines.

🦋 Native plants otoh feed caterpillars, support specialist insects, and rebuild the energy pathways that lawns erase.

👉 Dedicate just a corner of your yard to natives and restore the wildlife pantry.
A single oak, a viburnum, or a patch of goldenrod and coneflower can jump‑start a functioning food web right outside your door.

🔗 https://www.thecooldown.com/green-home/lawn-habitat-for-wildlife-us/

#SolarpunkSunday #NativePlants #Biodiversity #Habitat #FoodWebs #Polinators #HabitatGardening #Gardening

The biggest irrigated crop across the US isn't food — it's grass, and wildlife pays the price
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The biggest irrigated crop across the US isn't food — it's grass, and wildlife pays the price

Across the United States, lawns and turf cover more than 40 million acres, making grass the country's largest irrigated crop by area.

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Anemone Nemorosa @SensitiveSyl@beige.party
· 2mo ago
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Joe Pye weed (Eutrochium maculatum) But who is Joe Pye? It seems to be the anglophone name of a very interesting Mohican, Joseph Shauquethqueat, living at the end of the 18th and the beginning of the 19th century, in Massachusetts and New York. Not clear he had anything to do with the plant, maybe only by association. A scholarly article about botany, history and First Nations, with Latin names and a critical eye. Perfect 🤓 https://quod.lib.umich.edu/cgi/p/pod/dod-idx/joe-pye-joe-pyes-law-and-joe-pye-weed-the-history.pdf?c=mbot;idno=0497763.0056.303;format=pdf #flowers #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #wildflowers #botany #history #firstnations #photography
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Pollinators @Pollinators@epicure.social
· 3mo ago
Team activities on August 5, 2026. 1. Harvest and wash elderberries in the pleasant conditions. 2. Observe a variety of pollinators on the native plants, the painted lady butterflies are numerous. 3. Plant more native plant starts as the existing plants bloom. It’s rewarding to add diversity to the habitat as the existing native plants are feeding pollinators. #threegoodthings, #minnesota, #nativeplants, #pollinators, #rewilding, #Zone4b
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Megan Lynch (she/her) @ml@ecoevo.social
· 3mo ago
How Prairie Fires Restore Water to Soil & Why Prairies Need to Burn "In this hour-long interview, Gerry Wilhelm, one of the 2 authors of the massive tome *Flora of the Chicago Region*, gives us insight into how fire is essential to prairie ecosystems - and many ecosystems around the globe." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HDVcfSYcxc0 #Botany #Ecology #Illinois #NativePlants

How Prairie Fires Restore Water to Soil & Why Prairies Need to Burn

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