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Urban trees provide many benefits to our communities. Find all the urban trees resources you need here, including a video about to plant a tree and calculate your Tree Equity Score.
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The Edible Classroom, a nonprofit serving the Lancaster, Pennsylvania area, partners with schools and communities to create and sustain learning gardens where children, families, and communities engage with nutritious food from seed to table.
Learn all about the differences between native and how to remove those pesky invasive species in this third installment of the Reduce Your Stormwater series.
With awarded funds, CIT-ED implemented a Tribal food forest. The food forest has local and culturally significant plant species to the Tribe, and utilizes permaculture and traditional methods for planting, maintenance, and harvesting.
These gardens filled with deep-rooted native plants help stabilizes slopes, reduce erosion, absorbs stormwater runoff, and provides pollinator habitats.
Nodding ladies’ tresses, Spiranthes cernua Nodding ladies’ tresses spiral down a staircase in a coordinated step-wise fashion, they outpace their bee suitors in elegant white. It’s no wonder the bees start from the bottom of the staircase to intercept the best of their nectar. The older flowers towards the base of the stem produce more …
Are you scared of snakes? They don’t want anything to do with you either! Many people fear our legless friends, but they play an integral role in our ecosystems and try their best to avoid humans.
Move over Puxatawney Phil, there may be a new furry meteorologist in the Chesapeake Bay watershed! That’s right, the Wooly Bear Caterpillar has been rumored to be able to predict the harshness of the upcoming winter!
North America is home to nearly 300 unique species of freshwater mussels. Southeastern states, particularly those with tributaries flowing to the Mississippi River, host a massive hotspot of freshwater mussel species diversity.
It’s Halloween season! Experience the wild and wonderful abilities of this parasitic fungi that could be in your own back yard.
