Eight Steps to a Bird-Friendly Garden
by Steve Kress and Elissa Wolfson
Want to attract more feathered visitors to your yard? Time-tested strategies - including reducing lawn, maximizing edge and vegetation levels, building leaf mulch beds, cultivating birdseed plots, berry bushes, and more - will help you create a low-maintenance garden that is alive with birds.
Creating Garden Mosaics
by Keith Tidball and Marianne Krasny
Cornell’s Garden Mosaics program connects youth and elders to explore the mosaics of plants, people, and cultures in gardens, and to act together to enhance their communities. The program also provides a fountain of innovative resources for science educators.
A Finger Lakes Garden Diary
by Elizabeth Mount
Keeping a weekly garden diary can be a satisfying exercise as well as invaluable tool for planning your garden’s future. Here, one gardener shares some excerpts from her own weekly journal, as she weeds and waters her way through the growing season.
Of Hills and Haiku
by Cameron Cooper
One intrepid Cornellian began running through Plantations as an undergraduate. Her early morning routine took her on journeys both outward and inward. As her physical endurance and capabilities grew, so did her knowledge and appreciation for Plantations.
Growing Good Kids Through Books
by Elissa Wolfson
The American Horticultural Society and the Junior Master Gardener Program presents annual awards to garden and ecology themed children’s books. Here are their choices: 45 engaging, inspiring books - both new and classic - to share with your favorite nature child!
Last Child in the Woods
Reviewed by Sonja Skelly
As children’s lives become more scheduled and natural areas become rare, author Richard Louv’s groundbreaking book maintains that children are in danger of acquiring a condition he calls “nature deficit disorder.” Louv’s book was required reading for one Cornell class last spring; class members felt it should be required reading for everyone.
