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Blooms and Blossoms: How to Create a Beautiful Spring Garden for Beginners As the days grow longer and the temperatures rise, the allure of spring beckons us outdoors to embrace the beauty of nature. For beginners eager to cultivate their green thumbs, creating a vibrant spring garden is a rewarding and fulfilling endeavor. In this blog post, we'll explore practical tips and guidelines to help novice gardeners bring their spring garden dreams to life, one seedling at a time. https://lnkd.in/edxd8Qe4

Did you know honey bees have hotels? Yup, a bee hotel, also known as a bee house, is a house-like structure that provides a nesting space for bees and wasps. Bee hotels, as renowned honey bee conservationist Apoorva BV explains, mimic the natural environments where these bees and wasps would normally build their nests, such as in hollow plant stems, dead wood, or crevices in rocks. Bee hotels are great to increase the population of these pollinators, which are fast dwindling. They become a safe haven for bees to lay eggs during the warm season. Watch the full video on YouTube. Click the link in comment. #beeconservation #goodfoodmovement

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Here's another story written for Southern Living on the South's most famous trees. Please give it a read and let me know if you enjoyed it - https://lnkd.in/eYXajKJt

Here is a short article about a short walk in nature and some Jack-O-Lantern mushrooms: https://lnkd.in/eAnJPt2Y

Salps - jelly with a nervous system, making them more related to humans than sea jellies. They form super long chains in the open ocean and filter feed smaller plankton like photosynthesising microalgae. An important #ecosystemservice they provide is the transportation of carbon to the deeper layers of the ocean where the carbon could then take hundreds to a thousand of years before reaching the atmosphere again in the Earth's #carboncycle. This is because their poop is heavy and dense, resulting in a high sinking rate and allowing carbon to reach deep waters quicker than it can be consumed by other organisms in shallower waters. Cool, huh?!

This summer, I studied with Wild Rockies Field Institute on the Conservation Across Boundaries Course. We spent 42 days in the field, backpacking and kayaking while learning about community-based conservation, traditional indigenous knowledge, and other topics. This was such an incredible opportunity to get out of the classroom and into the field. I loved experiencing the topics we were reading about and discussing right after class. Here is the article I wrote for the WRFI blog: https://shorturl.at/LpbZ5

In your circle of control: your garden. Outside your circle: butterflies

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