Hello 1-Hour Gardeners! Today marks the start of the Great Backyard Bird Count. As they say at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology…Red, Set, Bird!
Continue reading “Great Backyard Bird Count Begins!”
How to Create a Wild Space in Your Backyard
Since this COVID WFH situation for a lot of us will continue at least until January, the need is constant for us to polish our delicate work/life balance. Reports are in from the booming gardening industry proving that thousands of you are digging around in your backyards. And lots of you smart new gardeners are also looking up to watch the birds.
Now …as you wrap up the hoses and stack the rakes into the shed, you might be at a loss for how to keep kids engaged outside in the coming weeks. Besides building snowmen and snow angels, what else is there to do?
Continue reading “How to Create a Wild Space in Your Backyard”
Update: Why Are the Birds Dying?
If you’re one of the many WFH, who have become a COVID gardener, I want to alert you to an article that popped up in the news a few weeks ago. It was picked up by the Smithsonian magazine folks who ran a story about it in their 9-17-20 issue.
Continue reading “Update: Why Are the Birds Dying?”