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Explore Past Issues:
January 2025
- Celebrating 10 years of Humane Gardener
- Great winter nature reads: Soil, This Is How a Robin Thinks, Burn Scars, and much more
- New bee video featuring cellophane bee mamas
- New articles on stem-nesting bees; the GN Bee (ground-nesting bee) citizen science project; the land-shaping role of subterranean mammals; surprising insights into groundhog behavior and coexistence
- Digest of recent blog posts with strategies for planting among deer and tips for outcompeting stiltgrass, encouraging volunteers, and wasp-watching
- Upcoming events
March 2024
- New Wildlife Gardening Column for American Gardener Magazine
- Wildscape Receives Honorable Mention from American Horticultural Society Book Awards
- Don’t Prune too Soon: Tips for Safe Tree Trimming
- Conversation with NYT columnist Margaret Roach on her “A Way to Garden” podcast
- Recent and Upcoming Events
December 2023
- Wildscape is a Finalist for Science Writing Prize
- Science Magazine Applauds Wildscape
- Thank You to Rachael Bee Artwork
- Holiday Book Signing
- Upcoming Events
- Standing up for Native Bees
November 2023
- All That Transpired: Migrations and permutations among the trees
- On Land and “Sea,” Let Leaves Be
- Thank You for Reviews of Wildscape
- Media Highlights: NYT, Cultivating Place, Voice of America and more
- Rethinking the Squishing Campaigns
- Be a Wild Beekeeper: Nurture Habitat for Native Bees, Not Hives for Honeybees
- Upcoming Events
April 2023
- The Plants Are Coming Home: My guest post on suppressing invasives with natives
- Reviewers sing praises of Wildscape
- Wildscape Outtakes: Behind-the-scenes video essay
- Podcasts and radio interviews about Wildscape
- Should We Let Nature Feed the Birds? New All Animals magazine column
- Join Monarch Rx, our community science project
- Upcoming Events
February 2023
- What Do the Frogs Say? Booklist and other reviews of Wildscape
- Upcoming Events: keynotes at Ecological Landscape Alliance and Watershed Stewards Academy
- Plants, Not Guns: Strategies for Coexisting with Deer
January 2023
- A Landmark Case: Homeowners win right to plant flowers
- Wildlife Gardening Tips: Resolve to leave leaves all year
- Reduce Hazards: Give wildlife a chance and leash your dog
- Great winter reads: Prairie Up and The Garden Next Door
April 2018
- Celebrating the Molehill
- Sierra magazine names Humane Gardener a Top 10 Most Thoughtful Gift
- More Than Birdfeeders: Hummingbirds Need Plants
- Beyond Backyards: From Hell Strips to Bee Heaven
- Speaking of Bees …
- Humane Gardener profile in Baltimore Sun and other media
- Dangers of Roads and Rodenticides
- Finding Hope in the Forest
November 2017
- Humane Gardener tips for not “cleaning up” the garden featured in the New York Times
- Wild by Design: “cues to care” tips for helping neighbors understand your wildlife garden in my All Animals magazine column
- Avoiding ill-timed tree-trimming and removal, which destroys countless lives
- Interviews and upcoming events
September 2017
- Wildlife and Swimming Pools
- Gardening for Deer
- Where in the World is the HG?
- Humane Gardener in the Media
- Upcoming Events
May 2017
- Give Wild Moms the Gift of Habitat
- … and Give Your Own Mom The Humane Gardener book!
- Celebrating Wild Mothers: A Photo Essay
- Event-ful Spring
April 2017
- Skunk-tastic!
- The Book Has Sprouted
- Unusual Book Reviewer? “Emergence,” an essay on hope and renewal
- Guess who made the holes in these leaves? Come to my events to find out!
March 2017
- Think You Know Squirrels?
- Humane Gardening Heroes
- Oprah Loves Opossums: Humane Gardener featured in Oprah magazine
- How Parking Lots Can Save Bees
- Give Plants a Chance: How to Fight Plants with Plants