Growing Greener

Award-winning environmental journalist Fred Pearce discusses his book, The New Wild, and the positive role he believes that invasive species can play in our changing ecosystems

Nancy Dubrule-Clemente, founder of the pioneering, all-organic garden center and garden service, Natureworks, describes the. chemical-free methods she has developed for coping with weeds

Mary Philips of the National Wildlife Federation details her organization's new program to supply ready-to-plant wildlife gardens, customized for your climate and your garden conditions

Two experts, Dr. Thomas Mather, Director of the University of Rhode Island's Tick Encounter Resource Center, and Kathy Connolly, designer of native gardens and proprietor of Speaking of Landscapes, LLC, discuss ways to avoid tick bites and manage the landscape so it is less hospitable to these dangerous pests

Based in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, Helia Native Plant Nursery collects its stock locally, preserving and enhancing local genetic variants, while also maintaining a living seed bank to help its plants evolve in response to climate change.

Aimee Code, Pesticide Program Director for the Xerces Society, discusses the problems with many conventional mosquito control programs, and how the same goals can be achieved with less environmental impact

Mark Mandica, Executive Director of The Amphibian Foundation, discusses the threats that are causing a worldwide decline of amphibians, and what gardeners can do to make their home landscapes more hospitable to these essential creatures

Conservationist and gardener Suzanne Thompson goes viral with her organic approach to controlling invasive threat Japanese knotweed

Horticulturist and author Robert Kourik shares his research on understanding and enhancing plant roots in this program originally posted in June of 2019

"Because land doesn't come with a manual," you need the Ecological Landscape Alliance! Board member Dan Jaffe Wilder takes us on a virtual tour of this organization's programs, many of them free to the general public, with others available to dues-paying members from all over the country.