Habitat at Home: Berry Helpful Winter Plants for Wildlife

During winter months, berries are one of the main food sources for birds and other wildlife. Growing plants that yield colorful berries while others lie...

Habitat at Home: Leave Seedheads Standing

Flower seedheads provide essential food for birds and add their own kind of beauty to fall gardens.

Habitat at Home: What’s That Weed?!

Spring has officially sprung, and not everything is coming up roses! Each year spring arrives with dazzling redbud, daffodil, and dogwood blooms – but these...

Habitat at Home: Growing Milkweed

Growing native milkweed in your yard can create wonderful habitat for all kinds of native insects, especially the monarch butterfly! Monarchs lay their eggs exclusively on milkweed leaves, nowhere else!

Habitat at Home: Leave Your Leaves

Leave your leaves and let those sticks, well, stick around! Good news: you can make your yard more habitat-friendly by skipping some of your fall chores.

Saving Small Spaces: the Ironwood Square Community Arboretum

CMLC practices conservation in its own backyard Tom Fanslow, CMLC land protection director, stands in the Ironwood Square Arboretum, which he has lovingly nurtured. Last...