In These Gardens, New Home Lands Grow
On the blended ecologies that first-generation immigrants tend.
Category: Gardening
Bay Nature’s 2025 Summer Guide!
For this summer, we've pulled together a few of our favorites—reads, guides, coastal trails and summer volunteering opportunities.
Inside the East Oakland Plant Nursery That’s Breaking the Incarceration Cycle
“Nobody's got our kind of re-entry program that mixes soil, re-entry, healing, and good pay,” says Planting Justice's operations manager, Lynn Vidal.
Local Heroes 2023: Omar Gallardo, Community Hero
More than a decade ago, Gallardo joined LandPaths, a conservation and environmental education organization based in Santa Rosa. He became manager of a two-acre community garden called Bayer Farm in...
After ‘Heartbreaking’ Vandalism, Sausal Creek Plant Nursery Volunteers Pick Up the Pieces
Over 4,000 native plant seedlings were knocked over in broad daylight at the Friends of Sausal Creek's native plant nursery in Joaquin Miller Park, Oakland. At least 600 seedlings were...
They Live in Your Garden, Have Flexible Head Arrangements, and May or May Not Cause Problems. Meet the Land Planarians, About Which We Know Very Little.
“The time is ripe for biologists to unravel the diversity, ecology, and natural history of land flatworms,” one scientist writes
Lord of the Flies
Bored at home? Learn how to train common flies to ride on your finger like miniature falcons.
Controlling Weeds on Playing Fields, Parks and Lawns Without Herbicides
This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Turfgrass covers more than 40 million acres of land in the continental United States,...
What Do You Do About the Insect Apocalypse?
Scientists sound the alarm about free-falling insect populations. What can you do about it?
A Gardener in the World
Can the native plant movement outlast its scientific and cultural critics?
