Feed Birds and Pollinators
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How to Build a Bird Friendly Yard That Actually Supports Life
This is one of my favorite times of year in Minnesota. It’s also the perfect season to start thinking about how to create a bird friendly yard. The flowers are blooming, the trees have finally leafed out, bees are working everywhere, and birds are suddenly impossible to ignore again. Everything feels alive. Every year around…
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The EFSS Framework for A Better Yard
Listen to the EFSS Framework Podcast Episode Click play above to listen to go deeper on this post. Listen and subscribe to A Better Yard: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Amazon Music | iHeartRadio | Pandora May is not just another month in the yard. It’s the month. It is the month to dive deep in the EFSS Framework! This is when habits are set. When systems…
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Part III: Keystone Plants
Keystone plants are some of the most useful plants we can add to our yards. They’re the trees, shrubs, perennials and grasses that do an outsized amount of work supporting the insects, pollinators and birds that make up our local ecosystems. Here at A Better Yard, I generally use a broader term: helpful plants. Most of our…
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Native Bees with Heather Holm
If you spend enough time around native plants, eventually you end up talking about bees. Not honey bees. Not the bees on cereal boxes or the ones that show up in children’s books. The other bees. The 500+ species of native bees that live in Minnesota. In this episode of the podcast, I sat down…
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Second Nature with Doug Tallamy
One of the biggest shifts Doug Tallamy says we can make in how we think about our yards is actually pretty simple: Your yard is part of nature. We can learn and grow from that. This perspective is central to Doug Tallamy’s philosophy as well. It isn’t something separate from the ecosystem around us. The…