How to Garden for Wildlife

Courtesy of the National Wildlife Federation Follow These Five Easy Steps to Attract Birds, Butterflies, and Other Wildlife to Your Backyard!   1. Grow plants that provide wildlife with a natural food source such as nuts, berries or nectar, or offer supplemental feeders. 2. Provide water for wildlife with a birdbath, small pond, or shallow [...]

Great Gifts for Nature Lovers: Field Guides!

Looking for a great gift for the nature lover in your life? Take a look at the collection of nature field guides that we’ve compiled. You’ll find below field guides on animals, plants, edibles, trees, stars, seashells, birds and more!

Amazing Creatures: Eastern Box Turtle

The Eastern Box Turtle (Terrapene carolina carolina) is the state reptile for Tennessee and North Carolina. More…

Amazing Creatures: Merlin Hawk

Merlins are not endangered, but like most birds his habitat is rapidly being destroyed. Pollution is another concern. Both of these put all wildlife in peril.

Amazing Creatures: Walking Stick Bug

Out of the corner of my eye I saw what I thought at first was a spider of some kind, but as I focused on it I saw it was a walking stick insect.

The Tennessee Naturalist Program

It’s going to be an exciting year!  This year I have the opportunity to study with some of Tennessee’s top naturalists!!  I’m hoping to use the knowledge to help others learn more about the natural treasures here in the beautiful state of Tennessee, as well as learn as much as possible about the wild edibles and medicinals in the [...]

Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca) ~ LuminEarth’s Guide to Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants

  Names: Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriaca), Algodoncillo, Broadleaf Milkweed, Cottonweed, Herbe à la Ouate, Kansas Milkweed, Silkweed, Silky Sallowwort, Seidenpflanze, Seidenpflanze Virginia Silk, Wild cotton Visit Our FREE Online Guide to Wild Edible & Medicinal Plants Appearance: Common Milkweed is found throughout the US in old fields and on roadsides, in disturbed habitats, and in [...]

The Great Work by Thomas Berry – A Book Review

The subtitle to Thomas Berry’s book is “Our Way Into The Future” and it is a sort of guide about how we need to go forward in this life on earth. But The Great Work is also a history book that timelines how we got to where we are: in environmental and moral peril.

Plant a Billion Trees. One Dollar. One Tree. One Planet.

Plant a Billion Trees. One Dollar. One Tree. One Planet.

Everything Has Spirit

by Leo ‘Circling Bear’ The act of honoring an animal or anything in creation is not an act of  worship. It is the acknowledgment of their power and their being as brothers and sisters of the entire universe. It is a sign of our gratitude for their help. The energy of the animals, birds and [...]

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