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Welcome to our family blog about getting more wild
Eternity, by William Blake
This child knows that fennel tastes like licorice
Backyard, September, 2005
Backyard, September, 2008
Backyard, Summer 2010
Backyard, Spring, 2013
National Wildlife Federation's Backyard Habitat Program Requirements ( * = we got it covered)
Inspiring Books and Other Resources
- Adventures Among Ants: A Global Safari with a Cast of Trillions, by Mark W. Moffett
- American Wildflowers Coloring Book, by Paul Kennedy
- Amphibian, DK Eyewitness Books, by Barry Clarke
- An Unlikely Vineyard: the education of a farmer and her quest for terroir, by Deirdre Heekin
- Ants: Nature's Secret Power, 2006, 54 minutes
- Bio-Dynamic Agriculture: An Introduction, by Koepf, Pettersson and Schaumann
- Botany in a Day: The Patterns and Methods of Plant Identification, by Thomas Elpel
- Carrots Love Tomatoes: Secrets of Companion Planting for Succesful Gardening, by Louise Riotte
- Cradle to Cradle: Remaking the Way We Make Things, by McDonough and Braumgart
- Design Outlaws: On the Ecological Frontier, a Companion Book to the film Ecological Design: Inventing the Future, by Editors Zelov and Cousineau
- Dirt! The Movie, by Benenson and Rosow
- Family Herbal, by Rosemary Gladstar
- From Plant to Seed, by Gail Gibbons
- Full Moon Feast, by Jessica Prentice
- Giants in the Earth: the California Redwoods, ed. by Johnstone
- Healing Wise, by Susan Weed
Honeysuckle Sipping: The Plant Lore of Childhood, by Jeanne R. Chesanow- In Search of Nature, by Edward O. Wilson
- Keepers of Life: Discovering Plants Through Native American Stories and Earth Activities for Children, by Michael Caduto and Joseph Bruchac
- Mushrooms DeMystified, by David Arora
- My Backyard Jungle: the adventures of an urban wildlife lover who turned his yard into habitat and learned to live with it, by James Barilla
- National Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Reptiles and Amphibians, by Bebler and King
- Nature in Your Backyard: Simple Activities for Children, by Susan Lang
- Nova: Lord of the Ants, PBS, 2008, 52 minutes
- Planet Ant: Life Inside the Colony, 2013, BBC, 88 minutes
- Plants That Never Bloom, by Ruth Heller
- Redwoods: The World's Tallest Trees, by Jeremy Joan Hewes
- Roots, Shoots, Buckets and Boots: Gardening Together With Children, by Sharon Lovejoy
- Small is Still Beautiful, by Joseph Pearce
- Sol Viva: How to Grow $500,000 on One Acre, and Peace on Earth, by Anna Edey
- Sunset New Western Garden Book, by Editors of Sunset Books and
Sunset Magazine - The Audobon Society Field Guide to North American Birds, Western Region, by Miklos D. F. Udvardy
- The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Wildflowers, Western Region
- The Private Life of Plants, 1995 BBC film presented by David Attenborough
- The Reason for a Flower, by Ruth Heller
- The Sustainable Vegetable Garden: A Backyard Guide to Healthy Soil and Higher Yields, by Jeavons and Cox
- The Tree of Time: a Story of a Special
Sequoia , by Kathy Baron - Wholeness: On Education, Buckminster Fuller and Tao, by Alex Gerber, Jr.
- Wicked Bugs: the Louse that Conquered Napoleon's Army & Other Diabolical Insects,, by Amy Stewart
- Wicked Plants: the Weed that Killed Lincoln's Mother and Other Botanical Atrocities, by Amy Stewart
Links
- Amy Stewart - Eureka, CA , garden writer's home page
- Animal Planet's BackYard Habitat site
- Botany Unit Study Resources
- BugGuide.net
- Butterfly-attracting plants
- Culture Change
- Down on the Garm: Adventures in the Dirt
- Edible Forest Gardens
- First Ways: Urban Foraging and Other Wilderness Adventures (blog)
- Guerilla Gardening
- Paul Stamets TED talk: "6 Ways Mushrooms Can Save the World"
- The Great Sunflower Project
- ebird survey
- kidsgardening.org, link to section "Cultivating Literacy in the Garden"
Plants in our yard:
- "money" plant
- Brussels sprouts
- California poppy
- Chinese elm
- Chinese mugwort
- Cleome
- alder trees
- alfalfa
- amaranth
- artichoke
- avocado
- baby bok choy
- baby rose
- bamboo
- black currant
- blackberry
- blue eucalyptus
- blueberry
- borage
- broccoli
- burdock
- buttercup
- butterfly bush
- cherry tomatos
- cherry tree
- chocolate mint
- cilantro
- clover, red and white
- cobra plant (carnivorous)
- cosmos
- crocosmia
- curly willow
- daffodil
- daisy
- dandelion
- dianthus
- echinacea
- ecium
- elephant garlic
- fava beans
- fennel
- french lavender
- fuschsia
- garlic
- geraniums, several kinds
- giant sequoia
- grapes
- green onion
- green pepper
- heavenly bamboo
- huckleberry
- kale
- lemon balm
- lemon verbena
- lilac
- lobelia
- mallow
- mexican sage
- milk thistle
- mint
- morning glory
- nasturtium
- nicotiana
- onion
- orange poppy
- oregano
- parsley
- peonies
- pineapple weed
- plantain
- plum trees
- poplar tree
- potato
- pumpkin
- purple willow
- raspberry
- red poppy
- redwood tree
- river willow
- rose
- rosemary
- scarlet pimpernel
- self-heal
- snow peas
- strawberry
- sunflower
- tayberry
- thuja
- thyme
- toyon
- verbena
- western dock
- wild strawberry
- woolly lamb's ear
- yarrow
- yellow and orange calendula
Invasive plants of Humboldt County: "A" list, most harmful
- bull thistle and Canada thistle
- Cape ivy (or German ivy)
- Chilean cordgrass
- common reed
- English Ivy
- European beachgrass
- gorse
- Himalaya berry
- iceplant
- pampas grass
- Scotch broom (and other brooms)
- Spanish heath
- spotted and diffuse knapweed
- yellow bush lupine
- yellow star thistle
Invasive plants "B" List, also of concern
- butterfuly bush
- cottoneaster
- English holly
- fennel
- foxglove
- Klamath weed
- parrot's feather
- pennyroyal
- periwinkle
- pittosporum
- poison hemlock
- teasel
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