A wonderful community experience: October 22, 11am-5pm and October 23, 1pm-4pm, at the Frances Ryan Thomas Memorial Center of Christ Church on Quaker Hill in Pawling, NY. Join the Brines and other FrOGS to celebrate the diverse beauty of our local, majestic wetland. Enjoy work by local artists and artisans, educational displays, food, and activities. [...]

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The invasive species war – The Boston Globe When it comes to what we should actually do for the environment, the two sides of this debate might not be quite as far apart as their denunciations of one another might indicate. Just as most ecologists accept that only a fraction of non-native species are harmful, [...]

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In Philadelphia, a Garden Grows Wild – NYTimes.com Ms. Ruddick decided to embrace the philosophy embodied in a line she remembered from an old New Yorker: “Don’t just do something. Stand there!” She worked for years in India, she said, where people stop for the rituals that mark the passages of life. “How many times [...]

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Garden Rant: Native vs. invasive once again—it’s Tallamy’s turn I am not a purist and I don’t expect many other people will be either. I think taking the hard line and insisting on all natives will go a long way toward killing the movement. —Doug Tallamy, Garden Rant interview, 12/12/07 Mild-mannered Doug Tallamy, author of [...]

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The Brine Garden is a chapter of this beautiful new book. “The line between art and nature has never seemed so blurred as it is in the Brine Garden.” — Gardens of the Hudson Valley Nancy Berner and Susan Lowry Gardens of the Hudson Valley, by co-writers Susan Lowry and Nancy Berner,  is the topic [...]

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