ecological gardening

Green space in the Chicago region (credit: Chicago Wilderness Alliance)Did you know that back in December, one of the most important planetary environmental agreements in history got approved i...

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For Cook County residents, here's an incredibly easy way to help fight climate change and support biodiversity. A slightly different version was published in the  Oak Park Wednesday Journal on...

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A group of swamp white oaksHealthy soil is important, but for whom? In the Garden The young bur oak would not be kept down. Yet again it revealed itself among the standing dead stalks of a lar...

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Spring Landscape (Rain), A. KrehbielMy mother had a commonplace book in which she recorded, by hand, in beautiful cursive, proverbs, sayings, and quotes that struck her as interesting, thought p...

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Black chokeberry in early springHere in the Chicago region, warmish days in March are perfect for attending to pruning tasks, something conducive to living happily with native shrubs in the gard...

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The Des Plaines River atNational Grove PreserveLast May, the Center for Humans and Nature, headquartered in Chicago, published a remarkable, environmentally-focused book, “What Kind of Ancesto...

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Most people are aware of the global biodiversity crisis, the shocking declines of insects, birds, and other animals, yet many don’t connect it with life in our comfortable suburbs. Because eve...

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10/4/21 Dear Mr. Paulson, You arguably are one of the most powerful, famous, and networked men in the world, with many important accomplishments. I am the completely ordinary, middle class, vo...

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Thomas Christopher Recently I revisited Thomas Christopher at Growing Greener to talk about how white-tailed deer drive ecosystem change. You can listen to our conversation here.

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Credit: Robert Woeger, UnsplashSome facts about deer An adult white-tailed deer, Odocoileus virginianus, that might weigh between 100 and 150 pounds, must eat about 8-12 pounds of fresh forag...

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Credit: ENGGtalksEcological Gardening has switched from Feedburner to follow.it. This is because Google has decided to let the email subscription portion of Feedburner lapse in July. Fortunately...

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Wolf Road Prairie in Late Summer (Credit Openlands)There is a struggle going on over a small piece of land in Cook County, Illinois that is emblematic of the national debate about how to manage ...

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Gray wolf, apex predator/National Park ServiceAs a non-hunting, vegetarian nature-lover I am in favor of deer. My heart lifts when I see a doe and fawn browsing in the green dappled light of ear...

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In-person garden walks, as wonderful as they can be, only offer a "snapshot" of a garden on one day in a particular season, usually summer.  Missing are the daily and weekly changes that make u...

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Native wild ginger emerges in AprilWhy leaves should stay where they are and “Chop and drop” tidying Back in March, shortly after the Covid-19 shutdown began in Illinois,  I was on a zoom...

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I'll be talking about native bees from a gardener's perspective online Sunday, June 14 at 2:30 pm CDT. Excited to be part of West Cook Wild Ones' series of monthly talks! Did you know that the ...

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Thomas Christopher podcasts Thomas Christopher does a great series of podcast interviews about sustainable gardening and landscaping, well worth listening to. So many are interviews with folks I...

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Cooper's Hawk There’s a glory of snowdrops in the backyard, glowing in the sun. One recent, warm day that included some sunshine, rare in this part of the world at this season, I strolled out ...

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Cattle help prairie management at Platte River Prairies Though I have no personal aspirations of the farming or ranching kind, own neither property measured in acres nor livestock, and in fact e...

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Winter and summer, the native plant gardens at the UW Arboretum sequester carbon while adding beauty and habitat. Designed by Darrel Morrison. Gardeners new to the concept of carbon gardening of...

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