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Using Creativity and Dead Trees to Nurture Wildlife

Using Creativity and Dead Trees to Nurture Wildlife

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Volume 29 Issue 4, Fall 2024 by BJ Lecrone, Wildlife Sanctuary Program Ambassador At all stages of their existence, trees...

Ideas We Like: Dead Hedges

Ideas We Like: Dead Hedges

Aug 21, 2024

Volume 29 Issue 3, Summer 2024 by Jennifer Lumley Do you have a brush pile? We Audubon at Home ambassadors...

NoVA Native: New York Ironweed

NoVA Native: New York Ironweed

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Volume 29 Issue 3, Summer 2024 by Kim Strader and Sheila Ferguson Beautiful and beneficial New York Ironweed. Photo by...

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Build a Mini Bird Sanctuary … in October (or Any Time)

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Volume 29 Issue 3, Summer 2024 by Plant NOVA Natives The best sanctuaries for birds are undisturbed expanses of forests...

Not Native Here: Purple Coneflower

Not Native Here: Purple Coneflower

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Volume 29 Issue 2, Spring 2024 by Kim Strader and Sheila Ferguson Purple Coneflower (Echinacea purpurea) is a popular plant...

A Homeowner’s Guide to Carbon Sequestration

A Homeowner’s Guide to Carbon Sequestration

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Volume 29 Issue 1, Winter 2024 by Gerco Hoogeweg Homeowners can create carbon sinks on their own properties. Even if you have...

Willowsford Family Chooses Native-Plant Zen

Willowsford Family Chooses Native-Plant Zen

Nov 6, 2023

Volume 28 Issue 4, Fall 2023 by BJ Lecrone, Audubon at Home Ambassador and Virginia Master Naturalist Willowsford is a...

In Praise of the Audubon at Home Experience — and Native Plants

In Praise of the Audubon at Home Experience — and Native Plants

Aug 1, 2023

Volume 28 Issue 3, Summer 2023 by Scott Harris I have lived in Purcellville for over 25 years, on a...

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Volume 28 Issue 2, Spring 2023 by Jennifer Lumley, Audubon at Home Ambassador Have you ever purchased a plant and excitedly...

Restore Half Your Lawn to Native to Save Us All

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