Tina Portman
@tportman.bsky.social
Reviving biologist delighting in small scale rewilding, i.e., in my yard. Facts are checked. Assumptions are questioned. Motto: How hard can it be? BC 🇨🇦
Reposted by Tina Portman
Native plants are cool, but have you seen bugs? Jokes aside, native plants are the foundation of healthy ecosystems. There’s a reason I’m systematically removing non-natives from my yard and replacing with native plants. It’s because I love bugs (and other wildlife).
January 24, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Native plants are cool, but have you seen bugs? Jokes aside, native plants are the foundation of healthy ecosystems. There’s a reason I’m systematically removing non-natives from my yard and replacing with native plants. It’s because I love bugs (and other wildlife).
For the most fun for effort, this is the goal. Choose lovely wild plants native to your area that grow effortlessly in your yard and support the most wildlife.
January 22, 2025 at 6:48 PM
For the most fun for effort, this is the goal. Choose lovely wild plants native to your area that grow effortlessly in your yard and support the most wildlife.
Where to start? I like to enjoy the process and I prefer smart over hard. Fortunately, nature is a great partner. I’ll share strategies and plants I’ve found through trial and error that are easy to grow in yards and great for wildlife. Please take what’s useful and ignore what isn’t. Have fun!
January 19, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Where to start? I like to enjoy the process and I prefer smart over hard. Fortunately, nature is a great partner. I’ll share strategies and plants I’ve found through trial and error that are easy to grow in yards and great for wildlife. Please take what’s useful and ignore what isn’t. Have fun!
Excellent article. In the context of lawns & yards rewilding is “nature-led and human-enabled.” Yards have no wild seed bank and are dominated by non-native plants. They can’t create wildness from nothing. Yard rewilding begins with hands-on gardening and wild plantings. Then nature takes over…
A great article giving rewilding its fair shake by @whittledaway.bsky.social, interviewing @landethics.bsky.social. Rewilding is oft-maligned, in part from basic misunderstandings. Recent success stories show a different path www.irishtimes.com/environment/...
Rewilding: A meaningful response to tackling the biodiversity crisis
The concept is an eco-centric approach which is nature-led and human-enabled
www.irishtimes.com
January 18, 2025 at 4:19 PM
Excellent article. In the context of lawns & yards rewilding is “nature-led and human-enabled.” Yards have no wild seed bank and are dominated by non-native plants. They can’t create wildness from nothing. Yard rewilding begins with hands-on gardening and wild plantings. Then nature takes over…
Yards are disturbed habitats with no wild seed bed, compacted soil, and usually growing a non-native grass monoculture. Yet even here, some wild plants could thrive. This account is about the challenge of yard rewilding, wild plants and the fun of watching wildlife really close to home.
January 17, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Yards are disturbed habitats with no wild seed bed, compacted soil, and usually growing a non-native grass monoculture. Yet even here, some wild plants could thrive. This account is about the challenge of yard rewilding, wild plants and the fun of watching wildlife really close to home.