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From Garbage to Garden: Composting Workshop with Brenda Platt
From Garbage to Garden: Composting Workshop with Brenda Platt

Did you know you can compost your kitchen scraps and yard trimmings right in your backyard?You don't need any fancy equipment (although there are benefits to an enclosed system). Successful composting at home is all about making the beneficial microbes that live in a composting pile happy. Like us, theyneed air, water, and food.

Brenda Platt, the director of the Composting for Community Initiative at the Institute for Local Self-Reliance shared the basics and tips to getting started for the ReWild Long Island Community, and answered questions.

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Layering Wildscapes in Your Garden [Video]
Layering Wildscapes in Your Garden [Video]

Joyce Hostyn, an amazing ReWilder from Kingston, Ontario, had hosted a wonderful session on designing landscapes with native plants. We have her recorded session and links to more information in this blog post.

Joyce is a rewilder who dreams of city streets lined with fruit and nut trees, wild parks and wild yards. She sees each yard as a possibility space - one yearning to burst free from tightly controlled grass and foundation plantings to become a beautiful, biodiverse, magical wildscape populated with native species, edibles and companionable exotics. Raised on a farm where her family grew, foraged and preserved enough produce to last the year, Joyce now experiments with edible forest gardening on her lawn-free quarter acre lot (featured last summer in the Kingston-Whig Standard).

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New to Native Plant Parenthood? Read this ...
New to Native Plant Parenthood? Read this ...

ReWilders have highly varying results when planting natives in their garden. A lucky few report 100% success, most of us are in-between, and an unfortunate few report all plants dying on them. This is not a matter of experience alone — there are very experienced gardeners who have known the desolation of plants that don’t come back up the following spring.

While we have not unlocked the keys to complete success, here are some tips that may help newcomers to native plant gardening have greater success.

And if you agree or disagree or want to add your tips or wisdom to this list, please email us with your ideas at info@rewildlongisland.org.

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Prepare for Planting - Cardboard and Mulch
Prepare for Planting - Cardboard and Mulch

Thinking about how you are going to get a head start on that weed patch by the side of the house? Want to take out a piece of the lawn for a pollinator patch?

Well, an ounce of preparation is worth a ton of fixing.

One of the easiest ways to deal with a plot of land is to cardboard and mulch a few weeks before planting, so that you can maintain the new design without “old” plants or weeds popping their heads back up for the first year. By the second year, the cardboard and mulch are all gone, the new plants have reached maturity and are shading out any new competition easily!

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