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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

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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

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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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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

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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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