Activities - Preserving Wildflowers
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Most wild flowers soon wither if you pick them, but you can preserve them for a long time by pressing or drying them. Choose only flowers that you know are common, and do not pick them unless there are lots of them. Remember to pick a stem with a leaf, or take a separate…
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Activities - Growing a Surprise Garden
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You can grow a surprise garden from the seeds you pick up on your sneakers on a muddy walk!What you will need to get startedA rainy daySneakersClean jar or plastic containerSterile compost or potting soilClear plasticA warm placeStep 1Put on your…
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Activities - Growing Flowers From Bulbs
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Many of the earliest spring flowers grow from bulbs. The bulb is a store of food that lets the plant shoot up and grow before it is warm enough for most flowers.Only use bulbs that you can buy - never dig up bulbs that are growing wild!What you will need to get startedClay…
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Activities - Home-Made Sweet Homes for Native Bees
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It’s easy to build a “Bee Condo” for native bees!Many of the wild bees you may encounter in your backyard garden make their burrow homes in the soil. Some bees create hives in snags (a dead or dying standing tree, often with its branches broken off), or in holes in trees. The activity of…
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Gardening for Pollinators
Follow these simple steps to create a pollinator-friendly landscape around your home or workplace.
Photo by Beatriz Moisset, 2006.
Use a wide variety of plants that bloom from early spring into late fall.Help pollinators find and use them by planting in clumps, rather than single plants. Include plants native to your region. Natives are adapted…
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USDA Forest Service land managers, scientists and partners are working together to improve pollinator habitat after timber harvest activities
Aliza Fassler, a graduate student at University of Massachusetts-Amherst (center), presents a training session on bumblebee identification to the 2022 field crew involved in the PHiLL project. USDA Forest Service photo by Lauren Pile.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates that one in…