Potomac — These days, many of us are searching for alternatives to conventional lawn and garden care, a task that has become increasingly dependent on time and maintenance, as well as pesticides and ...

Jen Finnegan walks through one of many garden areas at Hollin Meadows Elementary.The school’s outdoor education coordinator, who students and teachers alike call “Farmer Finnegan,” checks on peas, ...

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Tim Hoover installed 150 acres of meadows in his 25 years as an environmental educator at the Milton Hershey School. The majority of his 1-acre Fairview Twp. home landscape also is a series of meadow ...

For six years running, Mallory Meadows, a family-owned and Veteran-run micro-farm in Eagle, Wisconsin, has partnered with a local business to host an annual event honoring National Seed Swap Day. This ...

Almost without thinking, I found myself falling into the botanist’s habit of counting species and reciting names as I walked through the meadow. Salad burnet, quaking grass, hay rattle, marjoram – an ...

In a shifting climate, with environmental diversity at risk, it’s never been more important to propagate native plants. Here’s how. By Margaret Roach The native perennial species of our meadows — ...

Most traditional farms had an orchard nearby and the orchard meadow provided grazing, often used for sick or expectant livestock. Surviving farm orchards are very important habitats for wildlife, ...

Well Meadows in Bridgnorth had been earmarked by the Buglife's B-Lines Project, and this week volunteers and organisers manned the tools and sowed the seeds that should see a carpet of wildflowers ...