Monarchs and Milkweed are a gateway to learning about other host plants
Tired of hearing about how to help the imperiled monarch butterfly yet? Yeah, me neither. We have a long way to go to restore the...
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The Blueway Plan for the French Broad River
You may have heard of greenways before, but have you heard of a blueway? Similar to a greenway, a blueway focuses on protecting a natural...
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Post Cards to the Earth
Conserving Carolina honored and celebrated Earth Day 2022 in the fresh spring air by organizing the Earth Day Festival at Harmon Field in Tryon,...
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Project Conserve Story Map
Project Conserve is all throughout WNC, including the Great Smoky Mountains (pictured here). Did you know? Conserving Carolina leads AmeriCorps Project Conserve, a national service...
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Biggest Bang for Our Buck: Plant Oak Trees
Spring enthusiasm for gardening is here – and sometimes it irks me. With all the big-box home impairment stores already rolling out their racks of...
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Grow It Forward
A Polk County program teaching students to make connections with nature and people Over at Polk County Middle School, sixth-grade science teacher Andrea Hill has...
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Choose Your Friends Wisely, Choose Your Enemies Wiser
Is privet friend or foe? I am an absolute lover of plants. The exploration of the botanical world has led me to deep, wide and...
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Environmental Injustice: Connecting Race, Class, and Climate Change
Takeaways from a talk by William J. Barber III By Allison Houtz, AmeriCorps Project Conserve Communications and Education Associate Photo by the National Oceanic and...
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Give Native Problem-Solver Giant River Cane A Chance
Let’s meet a plant that offers many natural solutions to some of our un-naturally made problems: the Giant River Cane (Arundinaria gigantea). It’s one...
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