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Category: Yards

Earth Day at the Brewery

For this Earth Day, plant natives, as many as you can fit in your yard. Once they are established, say goodbye to watering, fertilizing, and create habitat for local wildlife.

Published May 2, 2023
Categorized as Planting Natives, Yards Tagged Earth Day, English Ivy, native plantings

The Lawn Is An Invasive Species

The lawn describes a chaos of weeds from all corners of the earth fighting it out to make your yard as ugly and lifeless as possible.

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Published April 14, 2023
Categorized as Invasive Plant Removal, Yards Tagged lawns, native grasses, yards

Book The Long Island Conservancy

Long Island is facing an environmental crisis. What native habitat we have left is rapidly vanishing. We can do something about this.

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Published February 21, 2023
Categorized as Habitat Restoration, Invasive Plant Removal, Local Stewardship, Park, Yards Tagged habitat restoration, Long Island

The Right To Native Plants

Increasingly, people are challenging local zoning laws and home owner\’s association rules governing how one maintains one\’s yard, asserting our right to native plants

Published December 17, 2022
Categorized as Habitat Restoration, Policy, Yards Tagged habitat restoration, native plantings, native plants, yards

Harvesting Wildflower Seeds

By harvesting local wildflower seeds from our own yards, we can restore native habitat right here where we live.

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Published November 3, 2022
Categorized as Local Stewardship, Yards Tagged Greater Sayville Civic Association, native plantings, Sayville Chamber of Commerce, SWEEP

It\’s Time To Kill Your Lawn

Lawns are expensive, costly to the environment, to our health and well being.

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Published August 10, 2022
Categorized as Policy, Yards Tagged lawns, yards

It\’s Time To Kill Your Lawn

Lawns are expensive, costly to the environment, to our health and well being.

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Published August 10, 2022
Categorized as Policy, Yards Tagged lawns, yards

The Suburban Lawn Must Die

We need yards, not lawns. We need to learn what is native and what is not, and go native. Our local animal population is depending on us.

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Published July 6, 2022
Categorized as Habitat Restoration, Yards Tagged habitat restoration, Invasive Removal, native plantings, yards

Recent Posts

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  • Earth Day at the Brewery
  • Our Earth Day Message: Planting Native
  • The Callery Pear Is Everywhere! And It Must Go!

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